- CEO
- Ian Michael Brian McLaughlin
- Full Time Employees
- 1,294
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Finance/Rental/Leasing
- Address
- Fairburn House Bradford WY United Kingdom BD1 2SU
- IPO Date
- Mar 16, 1962
- Business
- Vanquis Banking Group plc (VANQ.L) is a UK-based specialist bank focused on serving financially underserved customers in the mid-cost credit market through digital credit products, vehicle finance, and savings solutions funded primarily by retail deposits. The group operates under three main brands: Vanquis, which provides credit cards tailored to varying credit profiles with different APRs and limits, unsecured personal loans, second charge mortgages, fixed-rate and notice savings accounts, cash ISAs, triple access savers, and easy access savings; Moneybarn, which offers secured vehicle finance for new and used cars, motorbikes, and light commercial vehicles; and Snoop, which delivers a free money management app with personalized spending insights, bill-cutting tools, free credit scoring via Equifax partnership, and integrated easy access savings. Headquartered in Bradford, England, with additional operations in Chatham and London, the company traces its origins to 1880 when it was founded as a voucher-based lending system and now serves over 1.7 million UK customers. Recent developments include robust growth in second charge mortgages from near-zero to over GBP400 million in lending balances since May 2024 through four partnerships, 6% credit card growth in Q2 2025, a capital optimisation initiative in October 2025 featuring Tier 2 tender offers and new issuance to support lending expansion beyond GBP2.6 billion, integration of Snoop capabilities into the Vanquis app, launch of a benefits checker tool and Q3/Q1 2025 Financial Wellbeing Indices in 2025, and full-year 2024 results alongside Moneybarn subsidiary reports in March-May 2025.