This article showcases our top picks for the best United Kingdom based Consumer Lending companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Consumer Lending industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top United Kingdom Consumer Lending Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Celsius Network
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Celsius Network is a blockchain-based lending platform that is accessible through a free mobile app.
Divido
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Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Tymit
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Tymit is a provider of credit cards that offers financing purchases overtime and manages the monthly budget.
Nude
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The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Proportunity
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Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Fintern
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Knoma
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Cudoni
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Cudoni is an e-commerce business dedicated to selling pre-owned luxury goods.
Akrod Limited
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Powering the next generation of credit technology for the world’s underbanked
Wollit
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Fintech dedicated to radically improving the financial wellbeing of the modern workforce.
Yielders
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Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach.
Leap
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Leap‘s peer to peer (P2P) lending platform connects borrowers and lenders directly, creating a community where everyone can thrive.
Plend
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The UK’s first ‘Social Lending Marketplace, allowing people to lend to each other at affordable rates (fixed between 10% – 25%)
Paycado
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Paycado is a new Fintech Neobank aiming to provide affordable and innovative banking services.
Leanpay
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Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need.
Oplo
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Oplo is a direct lender platform that offers car finance, personal loans, and secured loan products.
Evolution Funding
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Evolution Funding provides motor finance and technology solution for dealers to generate leads, improve compliance, and sell more vehicles.
Allium Money
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Allium Money specialises in financing energy efficient home improvement projects.
Enumis Ltd
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A financial technology platform, credit and e-money issuer authorised and regulated by the UK FCA providing alternative banking products.
SafetyNet Credit
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SafetyNet Credit is a smart lender, providing you with a credit limit (up to £500) available to use whenever you need it.
Nostrum Group
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Nostrum Group is an IPO that provides digital lending technology to banks, finance companies, and retail brands.
Rise
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On-demand health and wellbeing for the modern workplace & employee.
Fintex Capital
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Fintex Capital is a unique investment firm dedicated to alternative credit
Everyday Loans Ltd
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Everyday Loans Limited provides unsecured personal loans focusing on customers of lower-prime and sub-prime sectors.
Smart Lenders Asset Management Ltd
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FCA registered Asset Manager specialised in investing in loans through online marketplaces.
moneybarn PLC
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moneybarn PLC is a provider of Consumer Finance Services.
NextCredit
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Nextcredit is a direct lender that offers online instalments loans.
Provident Financial plc
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Provident Financial plc is a British sub-prime lender, also described as a “doorstep lender”, based in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
East Lodge Capital
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East Lodge Capital is an investment firm that provides hedge funds, asset-based lending, commercial mortgage and employee benefit services.
Keebo
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Hey, we’re Keebo, the credit card designed for the new generation to build better credit and improve financial wellbeing.
Marks Out Of Tenancy
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Rate your landlord, letting agent, rental property and neighbourhood.
L.O.A.F.
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L.O.A.F. To disrupt an industry that exploits people’s periods of acute financial insecurity by building a high quality financial services.
Pitchstor
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Pitchstor is a digital funding mechanism or in other words an online bank for financing, operating in the disruptive era of FinTech.
fuelGenie
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fuelGenie is a subsidiary of French IT services firm Atos SA, provides business consulting, systems integration, and managed IT services.
ismybillfair
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Ismybillfair is the antidote to the saturated market of price comparison or switching sites.
Sutherland Professional Funding Ltd
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Sutherland Professional Funding Ltd is a solicitor lending company that provides loans to the accountancy, insurance, and legal professions.
Paperless Home
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The UK’s most convenient document scanning service.
iQiCharge
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Smartphone charging at the table! Exclusively developed for restaurants, hotels, events and corporate boardrooms.
Pickbrella
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Pickbrella is First umbrella renting stations.
UrbanShaadi
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UrbanShaadi is a portal which will help customers to find all wedding related vendors under one roof.