challenger-bank

Cashplus Bank (legal entity Advanced Payment Solutions Limited, rebranded to Zempler Bank in July 2024) is a UK challenger bank founded in 2005 that grew from a prepaid-card issuer into a fully licensed bank, receiving its UK banking licence in 2021 and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority…

Kroo Bank Ltd is a UK app-based challenger bank, founded in 2016 and granted a full UK banking licence by the PRA/FCA in 2021 (restrictions lifted in 2022), that launched its digital-only personal current account in December 2022.

Tandem Bank (Tandem Bank Limited) is a UK app-only challenger and self-styled "greener" digital bank founded in 2014 and headquartered in Blackpool, England, with offices in Cardiff, Durham, and London.

Equitable Bank is Canada's seventh largest independent Schedule I bank by assets and a wholly owned subsidiary of EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB), a Toronto-based Canadian financial services company with over CAD $144 billion in combined assets under management and administration.

Monument Bank Limited is a UK challenger bank headquartered at 33 Cavendish Square, London, purpose-built for the "mass affluent" - professionals, entrepreneurs, and savers with substantial assets who have historically been underserved between mainstream retail banking and private banking.

Starling Bank is a UK app-only digital challenger bank founded in 2014 by Anne Boden and headquartered in London, holding a full UK banking licence and authorised and regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority (FSCS-protected, SWIFT SRLGGB2L).

Mettle is a digital-only business bank account brand for UK sole traders, freelancers, and small limited companies, wholly owned by NatWest Group and originally built with Capco. It has no physical branches and is run on separate technology from the core NatWest bank, offering an app-based current account with a UK sort code and account number…

Atom Bank plc is a UK app-only digital bank headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the first mobile-only bank in the United Kingdom (no branches, no web banking). Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FS Register 661960), Atom offers fixed savings accounts, residential and commercial…

Chase UK is the digital retail bank operated in the United Kingdom by J.P. Morgan Europe Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co. that launched the Chase consumer brand in the UK in September 2021.