Top Lending Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players in the Lending space. Our analysts selected these companies for a variety of reasons. This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Lending industry.

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Top Lending Companies


Nexo

The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets

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Zopa

Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees.

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Clydesdale Bank

Clydesdale Bank growth finance provides a range of innovative debt solutions for early stage, high growth businesses.

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RateSetter

RateSetter is a P2P lending platform allowing users to lend and borrow money directly from each other according to their own interest rates.

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Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank is a provider of financial services including savings and loans in the UK.

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Finio Loans

Finio Loans provide transparent and fair loans.

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Funding Circle

Funding Circle is a lending platform for small businesses.

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Aave

Aave is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing.

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Bamboo Loans Ltd

Bamboo Loans, a direct lender offering online personal loans and guarantor loans.

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Blue Motor Finance

Blue is one of the UK’s premier consumer motor finance companies, lending over £750m to over 80,000 customers.

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Currencies Direct

Commercial foreign exchange for the purchase or sale of any currency.

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Lendy

Lendy is Europe’s leading peer-to-peer secured property lending platform

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SafetyNet Credit

SafetyNet Credit is a smart lender, providing you with a credit limit (up to £500) available to use whenever you need it.

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MoneyThing

MoneyThing is a lending platform and part of the fastest growing sector in the alternative banking sector.

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iwoca

Iwoca offers credit financing services for small businesses.

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Capquest

Capquest British is a credit solutions business that works on behalf of credit providers.

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Funding Options

Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.

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LendInvest

LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.

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Aviation and Tech Capital

Owner of Ablrate.com an asset backed peer lending platform specialising in capital equipment and the world’s first to offer aircraft loans

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FundingSecure

FundingSecure is a Peer to Peer pawnbroking platform.

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Greensill Capital

Greensill Capital is a provider of structured working capital financing to businesses globally.

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Wellesley

Launched in 2013, Wellesley have grown to become prominent players in the alternative property finance space.

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OakNorth

The next-generation credit and monitoring platform that’s redefining business borrowing to the “Missing Middle”

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Wizzcash

wizzcash.com is a trading style of Emergency Cash Limited Company.

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Quick Cash Club

Quick Cash Club allowing your friends to decide if you should have a loan.

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Library of Things

Library of Things is a start-up that lends out products from drills to sound systems to GoPros from smart borrowing kiosks.

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Oplo

Oplo is a direct lender platform that offers car finance, personal loans, and secured loan products.

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Lendingblock

Lendingblock is a securities lending platform for cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

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4thway

4thWay educates and informs you about this new type of investing, and alerts you to risks and opportunities.

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Kabayan Remit

Kabayan Remit provide a fast, affordable and convenient way of sending money to the Philippines.

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1st Stop Group

The 1st Stop Group Limited offers a range of financial services to the retail marketplace under its various subsidiary companies.

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Orca Money

Orca Money provides investors with a platform to compare the various companies and products in alternative finance.

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Populous World

Populous is an invoice and trade finance platform.

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Skyline Direct

Skyline Direct, provide cash loans and high street shopping vouchers to customers across Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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JustUs.co

JustUs.co is an electronic system in relation to lending.

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Oakbrook Finance

Oakbrook Finance provides consumer lender service.

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Castle Trust

Castle Trust is a privately held company that provides investment and mortgage products.

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Yielders

Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach.

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Fundsquire UK

R&D Tax Credit Advance Finance

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Banking Circle

Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.

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B-North

B-North is a UK-based business lending company

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Proportunity

Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.

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Sharegain

Sharegain is a capital markets fintech democratising the $2.5tn securities lending industry.

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Tbc Bank Group

TBC Bank Group PLC is the UK-based parent company of JSC TBC Bank and its affiliates, Georgia’s largest banking group.

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Sphonic

Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC

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Downing Crowd

Downing Crowd is a platform that enables companies to raise debt to support their growth plans.

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Cambridge & Counties Bank

Cambridge & Counties Bank specialises in providing simple and straightforward solutions to SMEs.

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ezbob

ezbob is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions.

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M:QUBE

M:QUBE is a mortgage lending platform delivering data driven mortgages with certainty and control

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YesGrowth

YesGrowth provides loans to businesses in any sector, anywhere across the UK.

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Elfin Market

Elfin Market is a peer-to-peer lending platform which offers its borrowers an affordable alternative to credit cards.

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RedCloud Technologies

RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.

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VPC Specialty Lending

Vpc Specialty Lending Invstmnts Plc is an investment management company that deals in investment managing and lending services.

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Vehicle Credit

Vehicle Credit providing a product that met the demands of customers who could not find traditional vehicle finance.

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LandlordInvest

LandlordInvest is an online marketplace which matches professional landlords.

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Allium Money

Allium Money specialises in financing energy efficient home improvement projects.

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eCoinomic

eCoinomic is a financial services platform based on crypto assets.

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NextCredit

Nextcredit is a direct lender that offers online instalments loans.

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Os Money

Os Money is a best Online Leander In United Kingdom.

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LANDBAY

Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.

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Knoma

Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.

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Tymit

Tymit is the first credit card which puts the customer in complete control of their purchases from planning through to execution.

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Nude

The new way to save for and purchase your first home.

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Folk2Folk

Folk2Folk offers simple, straightforward, local lending and borrowing.

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Trade Ledger

Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.

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Relendex

Relendex is a peer-to-peer marketplace that brings together lenders for loans secured on professionally valued properties.

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Boost Capital

A UK-based specialist business lender.

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Zorin Finance

Zorin Finance is a Real estate company.

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Join Universe

Join Universe develops software for the financial industry to help people access credit on emerging countries.

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ZEON Network

ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.

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Credit Peers

Credit Peers is a privately held company that makes commercial property lending accessible to everyone.

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FundingKnight

Peer-to-Peer money lending service

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Ahauz

A proptech start-up helping first time buyers get on the property ladder.

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eMoneyUnion

They provide individuals with spare savings, the opportunity to become personal lenders to screened and profiled borrowers.

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Logical Glue

Logical Glue is a software company that creates products to analyze data for a business to predict profitable outcomes for a business.

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MARLO

MARLO is the world’s first lending platform for the $100 Billion+ ocean freight industry.

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Alterest

Alterest is a data and intelligence provider.

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Lendwise

Peer to Peer Loans, P2P Lending, Marketplace Loans, Education Finance

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Money Zebra

Gateway to almost a billion African businesses and individuals for financial service providers

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MoneyBaba

Moneybaba operates exclusively online and focusing on responsible lending and facilitating access to credit across emerging countries.

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CreditSCRIPT

CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.

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Trustmarque Solutions

Trustmarque is a leading end-to-end technology provider for UK organizations.

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Brismo

Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.

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SME Capital

SME Capital is a debt funding platform matching institutional investors.

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Backbone

Credit as a Service

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Amicus Finance

Amicus is a financial services group, delivering outstanding property finance, commercial mortgages and asset finance solutions.

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Deki

The UK’s first person to person microfinance charity.

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Real Funds

Real Funds is a London based peer-to-peer lending platform that provides alternative finance to small and medium-sized house builders.

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Saving Stream

Saving Stream is a UK p2p lending marketplace operated by Lendy Ltd.

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Pepper Money

Pepper Money is a lender offering, exclusively through intermediaries, a variety of residential and sale mortgages that use common sense.

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Catalyst Finance

Catalyst Finance has developed its products and services to ensure it delivers simple, flexible and transparent finance.

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Ashley Finance

Ashley Finance provides invoice financing services to small businesses in the United Kingdom.

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JLG Group

JLG Group entered the alternative finance sector with the aim of providing a real alternative to business banking.

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BorrowFox

BorrowFox is an innovative rental platform.

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Pitchstor

Pitchstor is a digital funding mechanism or in other words an online bank for financing, operating in the disruptive era of FinTech.

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Bridge Invest

Boutique short term finance provider in the UK property market

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LendingWell

LendingWell is the single platform p2p investment partner.

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XTAQ

XTAQ Limited engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of business performance measurement solutions for organizations.

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CreditSquare

CreditSquare is an advisory- and marketplace lending platform focused on providing SMEs with credit solutions.

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L.O.A.F.

L.O.A.F. To disrupt an industry that exploits people’s periods of acute financial insecurity by building a high quality financial services.

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Mast

Mast Technologies is a mortgage origination system that helps lenders process more mortgage applications in less time.

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Varooma

Varooma is a financial service company that deals with lending services by rendering logbook loans.

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