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When Will UK Challenger Banks Go Corporate?

When Will UK Challenger Banks Go Corporate?

Challenger banks in the UK have transformed retail, wealth, and SME banking, yet remain peripheral for corporates. While incumbents retain trust and scale, emerging FinTech infrastructure may soon enable challengers to expand into corporate and institutional banking.

June 29, 2021 1 min read Financials
When Will UK Challenger Banks Go Corporate?

When will Challenger Banking muscle start flexing within the Corporate and Institutional space in the UK?

Since 2015, with the dawn of Fintechs, we have witnessed hives of activity in the high-volume customer segments.

Around 80 in the retail, wealth, mortgage and SME space so far and we have around 15M+ customers across this space.
However most have not moved their salary to these accounts. Many just use it as a wallet and maintain their main bank accounts with one of the incumbents.
Is it the Trust, scale and channel capability of incumbents that continues to remain a differentiator?

So what’s next – Can we see more within these segments? More entrants? More innovation? Further extension of services being provided?

And what about the segments beyond Retail, Wealth and SME that have not yet been tapped by these players? The Corporates and beyond.
Can we expect to see new players provide services for Mid corps next?

Surely a more complex sector to play within, but the opportunity exists and is it fair to say that the next few years will see existing or new players get active in this space?

And yes, we have more accelerators now than we did…

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