UK Banks, Building Societies and Credit Unions
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Every bank, building society and credit union authorized to take deposits in the UK.
Median score
57
across 124 sites
Middle half
48–63
spread around the median
Full range
27–74
lowest to highest
Gated
40 of 124
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | Banks, building societies and credit unions regulated by the PRA, Bank of England (Prudential Regulation Authority); Wikidata (2026-10-01 (lists as at 1 October 2026)) |
|---|---|
| License | Bank of England data: reproduction under the Open Government Licence v3.0, per the Bank's legal page. Wikidata: CC0 1.0. |
| Cite as | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| How we filtered it | Every row of the PRA's banks, building societies and credit unions lists. In the banks list, UK-incorporated banks are kind bank; the outside-UK, Gibraltar and EEA run-off sections are overseas-branch. Addresses are Wikidata P856, joined on LEI (P1278) where the item is unique, otherwise an exact label or alias match on a bank, building society, credit union or financial institution in the UK (or, for a bank, with no other country). |
| Instead of | The FCA Financial Services Register (needs an API key). |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Distribution
Where the 124 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 60 | 48.4% | |
| Adequate | 48 | 38.7% | |
| Not ready | 16 | 12.9% |
By dimension
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
79% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
50% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
27% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
68% |
How much of each site we read
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
1 site in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
Where this cohort fails
7 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 124 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 118 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 124 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 118 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 10 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 18 | 0 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 1 | 1 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 124 | 0 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 124 | 2 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 95 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 124 | 0 |
Common — 90 to 95%
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 124 | 3 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 94 | 1 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 124 | 2 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 124 | 0 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 666, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
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| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC International Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 149025; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Afin Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 1004742; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| AIB Group (UK) p.l.c. no website on recordregister id FRN 122088; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Aldermore Bank Plc aldermore.co.ukregister id FRN 204503; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q16824660 joined on LEI 2138009CAEGO41Q6HB61 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Allica Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 821851; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Alpha Bank London Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 135327; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Alrayan Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 229148; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Arab Bank Europe PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 446951; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Arbuthnot Latham & Co., Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 143336; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Atom Bank PLC atombank.co.ukregister id FRN 661960; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q30633405 matched on the exact name "Atom Bank" | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bank Mandiri (Europe) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204424; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of Africa United Kingdom Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 454750; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank Of Baroda (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 768016; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of Beirut (UK) Ltd no website on recordregister id FRN 219523; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of Ceylon (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 514744; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of China (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 467410; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of Ireland (UK) Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 512956; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of London and The Middle East plc no website on recordregister id FRN 464292; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank of Scotland plc bankofscotland.co.ukregister id FRN 169628; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q627381 joined on LEI OQ3T05P7YR8P5YJEVI93 | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Bank of the Philippine Islands (Europe) PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 455378; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank Saderat Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 204488; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Bank Sepah International Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 208019; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Barclays Bank Plc barclays.co.ukblockedregister id FRN 122702; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q245343 joined on LEI G5GSEF7VJP5I7OUK5573; Wikidata gives 2 addresses: https://home.barclays/ https://www.barclays.co.uk/; one naming the firm is preferred, then a .uk host, then a generic one, then the shortest; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Barclays Bank UK PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 759676; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Birmingham Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204478; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| British Arab Commercial Bank Public Limited Company no website on recordregister id FRN 204564; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Brown Shipley & Co. Limited brownshipley.comregister id FRN 124548; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q4975973 joined on LEI 5493003MITCIX89B0R76 | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| C. Hoare & Co. no website on recordregister id FRN 122093; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Caf Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204451; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Cambridge & Counties Bank Limited ccbank.co.ukregister id FRN 579415; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q16985979 joined on LEI 213800HZTUSEIN3M1Z46 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Castle Trust Capital PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 541910; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Cater Allen Limited caterallen.co.ukregister id FRN 178737; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q5051884 joined on LEI NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Charter Court Financial Services Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 494549; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Chetwood Financial Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 740551; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| ClearBank Limited clear.bankregister id FRN 754568; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q28854725 joined on LEI 213800PERENGATFCHD95 | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Close Brothers Limited closebrothers.comregister id FRN 124750; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q5135183 matched on the exact name "Close Brothers" | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clydesdale Bank Plc secure.cbonline.co.ukregister id FRN 121873; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q971680 matched on the exact name "Clydesdale Bank" | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Coutts & Company coutts.comregister id FRN 122287; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q3696285 joined on LEI 549300OLXJ4Y010LOT34 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Credit Suisse (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 124269; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Credit Suisse International no website on recordregister id FRN 146702; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Crown Agents Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204456; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Cynergy Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 575105; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| DB UK Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 140848; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| DF Capital Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 848291; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| EFG Private Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 144036; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| FCE Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 204469; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| FCMB Bank (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 502704; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| FidBank UK Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 400712; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| FirstBank UK Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 216772; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Gatehouse Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 475346; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| GB Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 850286; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Ghana International Bank Public Limited Company no website on recordregister id FRN 204471; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Goldman Sachs International Bank no website on recordregister id FRN 124659; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Griffin Bank Ltd no website on recordregister id FRN 970920; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Guaranty Trust Bank (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 466611; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 124772; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Habib Bank Zurich Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 627671; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Hampden & Co PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 606934; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Hampshire Trust Bank Plc htb.co.ukregister id FRN 204601; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q106913718 joined on LEI 21380013V6JI2T3MOG16 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Handelsbanken plc no website on recordregister id FRN 806852; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Havin Bank Ltd no website on recordregister id FRN 204481; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Hbl Bank UK Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 188585; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| HSBC Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 114216; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Hsbc Innovation Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 543146; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| HSBC UK Bank Plc hsbc.co.ukregister id FRN 765112; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q64767453 matched on the exact name "HSBC UK Bank" | 58 | No | 32 | |
| ICBC (London) plc no website on recordregister id FRN 222030; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| ICBC Standard Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 124823; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| ICICI Bank UK Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 223268; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Ifast Global Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 716167; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Investec Bank PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 172330; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Itau BBA International PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 575225; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| J.P. Morgan Europe Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 124579; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| J.P. Morgan Securities plc jpmorgan.comregister id FRN 155240; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q113466019 joined on LEI K6Q0W1PS1L1O4IQL9C32 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Jordan International Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 183722; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Julian Hodge Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204439; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Kexim Bank (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204490; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Kingdom Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 400972; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Kroo Bank Ltd no website on recordregister id FRN 953772; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Kuwait Finance House PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 131818; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Lhv Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 993767; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets Plc lloydsbank.comregister id FRN 763256; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q113466001 joined on LEI 213800MBWEIJDM5CU638 | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lloyds Bank PLC lloydsbank.comregister id FRN 119278; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q1152847 joined on LEI H7FNTJ4851HG0EXQ1Z70 | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marks and Spencer Financial Services PLC bank.marksandspencer.comregister id FRN 151427; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q19840404 matched on the exact name "Marks & Spencer Financial Services" | 51 | No | 31 | |
| Melli Bank plc no website on recordregister id FRN 207380; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Methodist Chapel Aid Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204508; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Metro Bank PLC metrobankonline.co.ukregister id FRN 488982; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q6824499 matched on the exact name "Metro Bank" | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Mizuho International plc no website on recordregister id FRN 119256; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Monument Bank Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 849724; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Monzo Bank Limited monzo.comregister id FRN 730427; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q25206290 joined on LEI 213800PLUYXGZ8LU7T61 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 195430; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| National Bank of Egypt (UK) Limited no website on recordregister id FRN 204520; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| National Bank of Kuwait (International) Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 171532; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| National Westminster Bank Public Limited Company no website on recordregister id FRN 121878; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| NatWest Markets Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 121882; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Nomura Bank International Plc. no website on recordregister id FRN 204419; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Northern Bank Limited danskebank.co.ukregister id FRN 122261; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q7058144 joined on LEI 549300KUB2XKWLPMXV81 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| OakNorth Bank plc oaknorth.co.ukblockedregister id FRN 629564; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata Q25245535 matched on the exact name "OakNorth Bank"; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| OneSavings Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 530504; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Oxbury Bank PLC no website on recordregister id FRN 834822; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — | |
| Paragon Bank Plc no website on recordregister id FRN 604551; the PRA list gives no website and Wikidata has no item with an official website matching the firm's LEI or name | — | No | — |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.