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Top 25 Commercial finance companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 829 commercial finance companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,151 professional contacts across them, including 5,423 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers commercial finance companies 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 19, 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 commercial finance companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 818 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We back small businesses with the finance they need to succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 747 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Bibby Financial Services (BFS), we’ve been helping small and medium-sized businesses thrive and grow since 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 612 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lombard is the UK’s largest asset finance partner*.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 515 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iwoca was founded to expand possibilities for small businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Built on understanding, Cambridge & Counties Bank is the result of two well-respected institutions who joined together to create a responsible expert-banking specialist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a progressive, forward-thinking team, we help our customers achieve their business ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simply provides asset finance to small and medium-sized businesses to help them purchase equipment, free up working capital and invest in growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Close Brothers Invoice Finance is a leading independent provider of invoice finance services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eCapital are committed to supporting UK small and medium-sized businesses by providing the funding solutions they need, when they need it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Shire, we're changing how businesses think about leasing and funding.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Accessing finance to secure the growth of your business doesn't have to be difficult.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Time Finance plc is an AIM-listed business specialising in the provision of funding solutions to UK businesses seeking to access the finance they need to realise their growth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It’s about time the UK had a bank that genuinely wanted to help small and medium sized businesses grow, giving them access to fast, transparent and personal decisions on property…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a specialist in supportive business finance, providing funding to a wide range of SMEs for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stenn was built to empower businesses underserved by traditional financial systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PEAC Solutions (PEAC) provides asset-based finance to businesses across the United Kingdom, helping organisations access the equipment and technology they need to grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2010, we launched Reward to fill the fast-growing void left by traditional funding, building an alternative solution from the ground up.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “grenke is a trusted leader in financial services, specializing in flexible IT leasing and financing solutions tailored to support the growth of ambitious businesses across the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We've been backing UK SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) since 2014 with loans that flex with your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you have exciting and ambitious growth plans for your business, or want to maintain its existing success, we're here to offer a hand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fast, flexible cash flow finance solutions to SMEs and larger corporates across a wide range of sectors, providing access to cash within 24hrs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established since 1989, Tower Leasing Ltd is a funder with the support of brokerage facilities which enable companies across the UK to acquire much needed capital equipment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fiduciam - the trusted lender to SMEs and entrepreneurs We are a pension-fund owned lender to entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arkle Finance Ltd is a financial services company located in United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kennet Equipment Leasing has been a leading name in equipment finance for businesses since 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: commercial finance companies. 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 commercial finance companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of commercial finance companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name commercial finance companies. 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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Commercial finance companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 829 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 commercial finance companies, 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 “commercial finance companies”. 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 commercial finance companies), 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 commercial finance companies, 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, 5,423 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 19, 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.
Commercial finance companies by metro
- Commercial finance companies in London199
- Commercial finance companies in Manchester30
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 commercial finance companies, 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 commercial finance companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 829 commercial finance companies 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?
Funding Circle UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most commercial finance companies?
London leads with 199 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (30) and Birmingham (16).
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 5,423 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 829 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 19, 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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