Banks
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
1398
Active companies
729
Formed in latest 12 months
5
Median active-company age
11.1 years
Revenue known
7
Importers
32
Exporters
22
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,398 |
| Active companies | 729 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 5 |
| Importers | 32 |
| Exporters | 22 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 7 known, 722 unknown (1.0%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 1 | 15 |
| 2025-12 | 0 | 20 |
| 2026-01 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-02 | 1 | 15 |
| 2026-03 | 0 | 19 |
| 2026-04 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-05 | 0 | 17 |
| 2026-06 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-07 | 0 | 28 |
| 2026-08 | 0 | 10 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 640 |
| Active | 577 |
| Dormant | 152 |
| Liquidation | 25 |
| In Administration | 3 |
| Closed | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - West | 136 |
| Inner London - East | 106 |
| West Yorkshire | 38 |
| Greater Manchester | 30 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 30 |
| West Midlands | 28 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 27 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 25 |
| South East Wales | 24 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 23 |
Geography coverage: 727 known, 2 unknown (99.7%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 340 |
| 1m-15m | 49 |
| 15m-54m | 4 |
| 54m+ | 126 |
Revenue-range coverage: 519 known, 210 unknown (71.2%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 240 |
| Small | 121 |
| Large | 130 |
| Holding | 41 |
| Dormant | 152 |
Company-size coverage: 684 known, 45 unknown (93.8%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 111 |
| 1–9 | 232 |
| 10–49 | 8 |
| 50–249 | 1 |
| 250+ | 1 |
Employee coverage: 353 known, 376 unknown (48.4%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 5 |
| 1–3 years | 65 |
| 3–5 years | 31 |
| 5–10 years | 223 |
| 10–20 years | 248 |
| 20+ years | 156 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 728 known, 1 unknown (99.9%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 729 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 17 |
| Exporter only | 7 |
| Both | 15 |
| Neither | 690 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 24 | £13,473,865,457 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 16 | £7,110,417,750 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 9 | £919,010,576 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 8 | £567,912,901 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 6 | £23,468,704 | 2017-05-01 – 2023-09-01 |
| 71 — Jewelry, precious stones, and metals | 6 | £19,865,894,025 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 6 | £195,282,068 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured goods | 6 | £41,883,122 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 97 — Art and Antiques | 6 | £330,930,817 | 2016-02-01 – 2025-12-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 5 | £341,207,588 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-03-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 16 | £2,260,794,233 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 12 | £3,601,225,345 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 71 — Jewelry, precious stones, and metals | 7 | £11,010,362,627 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 6 | £486,959,799 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 6 | £45,859,161 | 2017-02-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 6 | £71,917,451 | 2017-01-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 63 — Various textile products, sets, used clothing, and rags | 5 | £9,566,053 | 2016-01-01 – 2024-03-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 5 | £28,774,717 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 5 | £235,132,061 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 4 | £88,115,974 | 2016-02-01 – 2025-12-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 22 | 507 | 222 | 69.5% |
| Holding company | 7 | 507 | 222 | 69.5% |
| Solo founder | 268 | 507 | 222 | 69.5% |
| Ecommerce | 0 | 23 | 706 | 3.2% |
| Website | 30 | 35 | 694 | 4.8% |
| 30 | 35 | 694 | 4.8% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Just Just The One Limited | £78,308 |
| Quality Capital Management Limited | £65,023 |
| Fs Finance Limited | £20,329 |
| L4wd2 Limited | £175 |
| Barry Burke Technology Limited | £0 |
| Westway Consultancy Services And Documentation Solutions Limited | £0 |
| Earth Eco Resource Trade Commerce Ltd | £0 |
Revenue coverage: 7 known, 722 unknown (1.0%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Other intermediaries | 35,380 |
| Other finance n.e.c. | 10,285 |
| Open-ended investment funds | 6,426 |
| Principal Trading | 5,921 |
| Fund management | 5,810 |
| Mortgage finance | 5,462 |
| VC & Development capital funds | 4,515 |
| Investment trusts | 3,026 |
| REIT | 2,912 |
| Broker-dealers | 2,660 |
| Other lenders | 2,251 |
| Exchanges | 1,925 |
| Non-bank lending | 1,350 |
| Financial leasing | 1,243 |
| Pension funds | 1,175 |
| Property unit trusts | 946 |
| Factoring | 370 |
| Unit trusts | 168 |
| Building societies | 101 |
| Central banking | 29 |
SIC classification
SIC 64191 — Banks
Includes
monetary intermediation by those institutions other than the Bank of England, authorised by the Financial Services Authority under the Banking Act of 1987 to accept deposits in the UK, monetary intermediation by those European authorised institutions which are entitled to accept deposits through a branch in the UK on the basis of their home state authorisation, monetary intermediation of the National Savings Bank, monetary intermediation of the Savings Certificate Office