Non-bank lending
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
1994
Active companies
1347
Formed in latest 12 months
129
Median active-company age
7.6 years
Revenue known
28
Importers
14
Exporters
12
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,994 |
| Active companies | 1,347 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 129 |
| Importers | 14 |
| Exporters | 12 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 28 known, 1319 unknown (2.1%).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 7 | 18 |
| 2026-01 | 10 | 12 |
| 2026-02 | 9 | 16 |
| 2026-03 | 13 | 29 |
| 2026-04 | 13 | 44 |
| 2026-05 | 6 | 14 |
| 2026-06 | 6 | 24 |
| 2026-07 | 12 | 24 |
| 2026-08 | 11 | 17 |
| 2026-09 | 10 | 10 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
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 |
|---|---|
| Active | 1,146 |
| Dissolved | 597 |
| Dormant | 201 |
| Liquidation | 40 |
| In Administration | 9 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 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 | 239 |
| Inner London - East | 133 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 104 |
| Greater Manchester | 80 |
| West Midlands | 66 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 56 |
| Essex | 50 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 40 |
| West Yorkshire | 39 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 36 |
Geography coverage: 1341 known, 6 unknown (99.6%).
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 | 481 |
| 1m-15m | 318 |
| 15m-54m | 32 |
| 54m+ | 139 |
Revenue-range coverage: 970 known, 377 unknown (72.0%).
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 | 250 |
| Small | 520 |
| Medium | 2 |
| Large | 149 |
| Holding | 22 |
| Dormant | 201 |
Company-size coverage: 1144 known, 203 unknown (84.9%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 323 |
| 1–9 | 390 |
| 10–49 | 27 |
| 50–249 | 5 |
| 250+ | 1 |
Employee coverage: 746 known, 601 unknown (55.4%).
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 | 124 |
| 1–3 years | 201 |
| 3–5 years | 149 |
| 5–10 years | 349 |
| 10–20 years | 261 |
| 20+ years | 262 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1346 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 | 1,347 |
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 | 8 |
| Exporter only | 6 |
| Both | 6 |
| Neither | 1,327 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 6 | £1,888,060,427 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 5 | £1,627,188,255 | 2017-12-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 61 — Clothing and accessories made by knitting or crocheting | 3 | £118,274,053 | 2019-06-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 3 | £99,658,600 | 2018-07-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 3 | £1,169,681,204 | 2022-01-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 3 | £66,773,526 | 2019-05-01 – 2026-01-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 2 | £45,452,399 | 2020-01-01 – 2023-09-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 2 | £51,840,734 | 2020-12-01 – 2023-10-01 |
| 70 — Glass and Glassware | 2 | £6,772,057 | 2026-02-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 71 — Jewelry, precious stones, and metals | 2 | £241,573,997 | 2020-01-01 – 2025-01-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 6 | £618,683,241 | 2016-06-01 – 2024-11-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 3 | £1,204,448,422 | 2016-08-01 – 2025-05-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 2 | £34,389,297 | 2016-02-01 – 2019-07-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 2 | £161,530,926 | 2021-06-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 91 — Clocks, watches, and their parts | 2 | £103,096,995 | 2016-07-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 10 — Cereals | 1 | £3,274,774 | 2024-10-01 – 2024-10-01 |
| 17 — Sugars and Sweets | 1 | £5,126,023 | 2024-10-01 – 2025-09-01 |
| 18 — Cocoa and cocoa products | 1 | £10,151,322 | 2024-10-01 – 2025-09-01 |
| 19 — Cereal and milk-based food products | 1 | £53,796,312 | 2023-10-01 – 2026-01-01 |
| 20 — Prepared or preserved plant-based foods | 1 | £9,734,394 | 2021-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
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 | 113 | 759 | 588 | 56.3% |
| Holding company | 0 | 759 | 588 | 56.3% |
| Solo founder | 324 | 759 | 588 | 56.3% |
| Ecommerce | 1 | 10 | 1,337 | 0.7% |
| Website | 16 | 18 | 1,329 | 1.3% |
| 12 | 18 | 1,329 | 1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Mitsubishi Hc Capital Uk Plc | £324,100,000 |
| T.j. Booth & Sons Limited | £28,436,116 |
| Fintern Ltd | £25,510,503 |
| Quidie Limited | £16,904,418 |
| Aros Kapital Limited | £15,605,189 |
| Jaja Finance Ltd | £12,843,434 |
| Perch Capital Limited | £12,013,090 |
| Fish Brothers Group Limited | £11,341,555 |
| Oracle Asset Finance Limited | £8,845,275 |
| Caledonian Consumer Finance Ltd | £5,792,048 |
Revenue coverage: 28 known, 1319 unknown (2.1%).
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 | 35,288 |
| Other finance n.e.c. | 10,396 |
| Open-ended investment funds | 6,355 |
| Principal Trading | 5,989 |
| Fund management | 5,759 |
| Mortgage finance | 5,480 |
| VC & Development capital funds | 4,467 |
| Investment trusts | 2,968 |
| REIT | 2,872 |
| Broker-dealers | 2,617 |
| Other lenders | 2,262 |
| Exchanges | 1,845 |
| Financial leasing | 1,221 |
| Pension funds | 1,170 |
| Property unit trusts | 932 |
| Banks | 709 |
| Factoring | 362 |
| Unit trusts | 167 |
| Building societies | 96 |
| Central banking | 28 |
SIC classification
SIC 64921 — Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors
Includes
activities of non-deposit taking finance houses, activities of hire purchase and loan companies not in the UK banking sector, activities of check traders, activities of money lenders, pawnbroking where the primary activity is in lending money, activities of building societies' personal finance subsidiaries, other consumer credit granting where the main business is the direct financing (other than finance leasing) of instalment credit sales mainly to persons, together with farm, industrial and building plant equipment to unincorporated businesses
Excludes
activities of pawn shops where the primary activity is dealing in second-hand goods, see ##47.79/9, financial leasing, see ##64.91, operating leasing, see ##77