UK

Founded in 1694 to raise money for King William IIIs war against France. The Bank of England is the ...

One of the oldest British banks, tracing roots to 1690 when John Freame began trading as a goldsmith...

Founded in Birmingham in 1765 by John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd as a button manufacturing business th...

Britains oldest merchant bank, founded in 1762 by Francis Baring. The bank financed the Louisiana Pu...

The first British bank run in 150 years. Northern Rock, a building society turned bank based in Newc...

The first ATM was installed at a Barclays Bank branch in Enfield, London, on June 27, 1967. Invented...

Modern insurance began at Lloyds Coffee House in London around 1688, where merchants, ship owners, a...

Formed from the 1969 merger of Standard Bank of British South Africa and Chartered Bank of India, Au...

The first bank clearing house was established in London around 1770. Bankers met daily at the Five B...

TransferWise, founded by Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann in 2011, pioneered transparent low cost...

Revolut was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko as a multi currency debit card. T...

Originally the National Westminster Bank, formed in 1968 from the merger of National Provincial Bank...

Scotlands free banking era from 1716 to 1845 is considered by some economists as a model of successf...

Monzo was founded in 2015 as Mondo by Tom Blomfield, a former Starling Bank executive. Monzo launche...

Starling Bank was founded by Anne Boden in 2014 after she left her job as head of transaction servic...