Company Database - TrueLayer

Connecting Banks and Fintechs

TrueLayer is Europe’s leading Open Banking payments network. We power smarter, safer, and faster online payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. Businesses big and small use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale.

Active since

2016

Head office

40 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AE, UK

Country offices in

UK, Italy, Ireland

Founder(s)

Francesco Simoneschi & Luca Martinetti

Funding rounds and investors

TrueLayer has completed seven rounds of funding raising a total of USD 271 mln from investors including: Connect Ventures, Anthemis Group, Northzone, Tencent and Temasek, Addition, Tiger Global, and Stripe.

Number of employees

330

Member of industry association and/or initiatives

Open Finance Association, European Fintech Association, Electronic Money Association, UK Finance, Innovate Finance, Merchant Risk Council, British Retail Consortium

Awards

  • Open Banking product or service of the year, FStech Awards, 2022

  • Best Open Banking solution Europe, Fintech Futures, 2022

  • Most flexible finance and insurance companies, Flexa Industry Awards, 2022

  • Top 50 tech companies in London, Business Cloud, 2020

  • Best innovation in payments, FData award, 2019

Contact

hello@truelayer.com

Core solution

The company`s core solutions We are an Open Banking payments network.

What problem does the company solve?

We give businesses and people the power to better manage, move, and make more of their money. We do this by simplifying every aspect of paying, shopping, investing, and saving. Whether that’s instantly initiating a single payment, enabling smarter account sweeping, or streamlining the whole process from signup to reconciliation.

Major use cases & products

  • Payments: instant bank payments, including instant pay-ins, merchant accounts, and instant withdrawals. 
  • Signup+: streamlined onboarding. 
  • Payouts: fast, verified payouts. 
  • VRP: variable recurring payments. 
  • Data and verification add-ons are also available.

Competitive advantage

We are the UK’s only Open Banking unicorn and an e-money institution. Our focus on innovation means we build products that go beyond basic Open Banking capabilities: Payouts, Verification, and Signup+. We lead the market, processing 30%+ of Open Banking payments and built the first sweeping and non-sweeping VRP API.

Types of supported APIs\API standard supported

We enable connections to all bank APIs across Europe, regardless of the standards or protocols used (STET, Berlin Group, OBIE).
Geographical coverage UK and Europe
Connected banks Coverage extends over 5,000 institutions with 95% bank coverage across the UK and major European markets. 

What account type do you serve?

We support consumer, business, and corporate accounts. Coverage varies per country. 
Account coverage (%) across countries/regions TrueLayer covers more than 95% of bank accounts in major European markets. We cover 99% in the UK, 99% in Spain, 96% in Ireland, 95% in Germany, 98% in the Netherlands, and 95% in France. Our coverage is constantly growing across Europe.

Do you offer a developer portal? What tooling do you provide for developers? Do you provide sandboxes and a testing environment?"

We offer:
• out-of-the-box, prebuilt user flows for web and mobile payments
• low-code plugins for ecommerce checkouts
• collections and libraries for testing our products
• sandbox environments for the UK and EU
Edit settings, get keys, view dashboards, customise UIs, and more in our developer Console.
Read more in our documentation.

Number of signed-up developers

Our developer community is 35,000 strong, with around 2,000 actively building on our platform each month.
Number of total end users 14M and growing.

Target market

Target segments/industries

Ecommerce, Financial Services, iGaming

Current customers

Revolut, Zopa, Topps Tiles, Cazoo, Freetrade, Heytrade, BetCity, Credit Ladder, Coinbase, OakNorth Bank, Penfold, Trading 212, Casumo, Aspire Global

Technology

Type of technology used

Cloud native

Software language

C#, Python, Golang, Rust.

When was the core technology developed

2016

Licencing

Supported licences

Our EMI and CBI licenses cover AIS (Account information services) and PIS (Payment initiation services) across the UK and Europe.

Partners

Distribution channels

Direct: customers can access our products via our APIs and integration tools.
Partners: we partner with PSPs (Stripe, Nuvei) and with platforms (Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce) to maximise distribution. This enables easy and fast integration for merchants. For a full list of partners see our partner page

Business model

Pricing model

We offer pricing based on transaction volumes. For more details, please contact our sales team.
Revenue streams Primarily driven by usage-based transaction fees.

Case studies

Case studies – examples