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

CategoryCompanies
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

MonthFormedDissolved
2025-11115
2025-12020
2026-01013
2026-02115
2026-03019
2026-04015
2026-05017
2026-06010
2026-07028
2026-08010

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

StatusCompanies
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 regionCompanies
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 rangeCompanies
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 sizeCompanies
Micro 240
Small 121
Large 130
Holding 41
Dormant 152

Company-size coverage: 684 known, 45 unknown (93.8%).

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EmployeesCompanies
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 bandCompanies
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

ClassificationCompanies
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 participationCompanies
Importer only 17
Exporter only 7
Both 15
Neither 690

Top imports HS2 categories

Top values shown in the chart

HS2 categoryCompaniesGBPAvailable dates
85 — Electrical machinery and equipment24£13,473,865,4572016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts16£7,110,417,7502016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings9£919,010,5762016-01-01 – 2026-04-01
90 — Optical and medical tools and devices8£567,912,9012016-01-01 – 2026-03-01
48 — Paper and Paperboard Products6£23,468,7042017-05-01 – 2023-09-01
71 — Jewelry, precious stones, and metals6£19,865,894,0252016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment6£195,282,0682016-02-01 – 2026-04-01
96 — Miscellaneous manufactured goods6£41,883,1222016-02-01 – 2026-03-01
97 — Art and Antiques6£330,930,8172016-02-01 – 2025-12-01
49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures5£341,207,5882016-01-01 – 2026-03-01

Top exports HS2 categories

Top values shown in the chart

HS2 categoryCompaniesGBPAvailable dates
84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts16£2,260,794,2332016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
85 — Electrical machinery and equipment12£3,601,225,3452016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
71 — Jewelry, precious stones, and metals7£11,010,362,6272016-01-01 – 2026-05-01
49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures6£486,959,7992016-01-01 – 2026-04-01
94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings6£45,859,1612017-02-01 – 2026-02-01
95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment6£71,917,4512017-01-01 – 2026-03-01
63 — Various textile products, sets, used clothing, and rags5£9,566,0532016-01-01 – 2024-03-01
83 — Miscellaneous metal items5£28,774,7172016-01-01 – 2026-04-01
90 — Optical and medical tools and devices5£235,132,0612016-02-01 – 2026-04-01
61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting4£88,115,9742016-02-01 – 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

TraitCompaniesKnownUnknownCoverage
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%
LinkedIn 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.

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.

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