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Top 25 Acquiring banks based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 193 acquiring banks headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 7,495 professional contacts across them, including 3,791 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers acquiring banks headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest acquiring banks based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Checkout.com processes payments for thousands of companies that shape the digital economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 847 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dive into a new world of payments with myPOS to find out how the latest payment technologies will grow your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paymentsense, now Dojo!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help businesses to optimise their sales and customer experience through facilitating speedy and seamless payments, loyalty, and data management creating truly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “emerchantpay is a leading global payment service provider and acquirer, supporting online, mobile, in-store and phone payments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ecommpay is a full-stack payment service provider and global acquirer, helping businesses accept, manage and optimise payments through one integrated platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whichever way you want to get paid, we help you find the payment solution that best suits your needs and provide you with full support and assistance throughout your time with us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2018 as an issuer and acquirer processor, Tribe has grown into a digital payments and infrastructure orchestrator that empowers merchants, banks, fintechs, issuers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Retail Merchant Services is a fast-growing payment services and software provider, combining our shared ambition to provide care and technology that can help small businesses…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cashflows is a new breed of fintech payments company that makes it easy for small corporates and SMEs to accept card and digital payments – online, in store, and on the move.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blink Payment is an all-in-one payment platform that helps UK businesses get paid faster, reduce admin, and reconcile with ease, whether it's online, in person, or over the phone…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Independent businesses are paying far too much for their debit and credit card processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2019, Ryft has been on a journey to revolutionise payments and make it a source of growth for businesses; with purpose-built solutions for marketplace and platform payments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Judopay is a leading online payments solution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paymetryx is based in Canary Wharf, London, Paymetryx is one of the fastest-growing companies in the payment industry, We specialize in providing competitive and affordable card…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MONEK is driven by a single purpose; to simplify the complexities of payment processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Card Saver is one of the UK’s fastest-growing card payment processing providers and is proud to be at the forefront of payment industry technology offering contactless, Apple Pay…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yorkshire Payments Contact Details sales@yorkshirepayments.com 01422 323785 @YorkshirePay We are an independent company that specializes in payment processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Building Businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the ultimate low-cost merchant services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Important account update!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reach emerging markets in the easiest way possible and start boosting your business with UBank Connect.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powering Payments, Fueling Growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: acquiring banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names acquiring banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of acquiring banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name acquiring banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Acquiring banks based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 193 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among acquiring banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “acquiring banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names acquiring banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among acquiring banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,791 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names acquiring banks, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many acquiring banks are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 193 acquiring banks headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
checkout.com, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most acquiring banks?
London leads with 81 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (6) and Edinburgh (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,791 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 193 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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