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title: "Cater Allen Ltd. SWIFT/BIC code CATEGB21XXX · United Kingdom | Elucidate"
description: "In the Santander G-SIB group (FSB bucket 1). SWIFT/BIC code CATEGB21XXX for Cater Allen Ltd., United Kingdom. Head-office BIC, LEI NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21."
url: https://elucidate.co/directory/cater-allen-ltd-categb21
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United Kingdom · Financial institution
# Cater Allen Ltd.
Legal name in the LEI record CATER ALLEN LIMITED
FSB G-SIB list 2025
1
Bucket 1 of 5 · listed since 2011
In a G-SIB group · Santander
[FSB 2025 list ↗](https://www.fsb.org/2025/11/2025-list-of-global-systemically-important-banks-g-sibs/) [What is a G-SIB? ↗](https://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/market-and-institutional-resilience/post-2008-financial-crisis-reforms/ending-too-big-to-fail/global-systemically-important-financial-institutions-g-sifis/)
BIC **CATEGB21XXX** LEI **[NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21)** Licence no. **Not on a tracked register** Passive participant (no connection) Head-office BIC only [Group: Banco Santander S.A.](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13) [Claim this profile](https://elucidate.co/directory/cater-allen-ltd-categb21#claim)
## Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
## Regulatory status
### FSB · global systemically important banks
2025 list
- **G-SIB:** Santander
- **Relation:** In a G-SIB groupGLEIF records a G-SIB entity as this legal entity’s ultimate parent. The bucket applies to the group, and membership does not make this entity a bank.
- **Bucket:** 1 of 5 · extra capital buffer 1.0% of risk-weighted assets
- **On the list since:** 2011
## Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- **BIC:** CATEGB21XXX head office
- **Connection to Swift:** Passive participant (no connection)
- **Swift GPI:** Not on the member list
- **Payment schemes and systems:** No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- **Branch codes:** None: head-office BIC only
- **BIC first registered:** 1998-06-06
- **Last updated:** 2017-12-16
## Identifiers
Head-office record
- **BIC:** CATEGB21XXX
- **How the BIC breaks down:** 1. CATE Bank 2. GB Country · United Kingdom 3. 21 Location · passive 4. XXX Branch · head office
- **Branch description:** Not recorded in the directory
- **LEI:** NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21
- **LEI record:** [View on GLEIF ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21)
- **How the LEI was matched:** BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
## Profile
- **Type:** Financial institution
- **Regulation:** Not on a tracked register
- **Register licences:** None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- **Country · region:** United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- **FSB G-SIB list:** [In a G-SIB group · Santander](https://elucidate.co/directory/cater-allen-ltd-categb21#regulatory) list of 2025
- **Trading venues (MIC):** No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- **OFAC sanctions:** No listing cites this BIC
- **EU sanctions:** No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- **Country sanctions:** No country programme
- **Founded:** 1816
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
## Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- **Direct parent:** [Santander UK PLC](https://elucidate.co/directory/santander-uk-plc-abbygb2l) · United Kingdom[PTCQB104N23FMNK2RZ28 ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/PTCQB104N23FMNK2RZ28)
- **Ultimate parent:** [Banco Santander S.A.](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-s-a-bschesmm) · Spain[5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13 ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13)
- **FSB G-SIB list:** [In a G-SIB group · Santander](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13) bucket 1 · 2025 list GLEIF records a G-SIB entity as this legal entity’s ultimate parent. The bucket applies to the group, and membership does not make this entity a bank.
The Banco Santander S.A. group has 97 institutions in the directory, in 36 countries: 88 hold a BIC and 9 do not.
Including [Banco Santander S.A](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-s-a-bschesmm), [Banco Santander Totta, SA](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-totta-sa-totaptpl), [Banco Santander S.A](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-s-a-bschgb22), [Banco Santander S.A](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-s-a-bschgb2l), [Banco Santander S.A. (France)](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-santander-s-a-france-bschfrpp).
[See the Banco Santander S.A. group →](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13)
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
## Addresses
- **Registered address:** 30 GRESHAM STREET LONDON EC2V 7HT UNITED KINGDOM
- **Operational address:** CATER ALLEN PRIVATE BANK 9 NELSON STREET ABBEY HOUSE BRADFORD BRADFORD BD1 5AN UNITED KINGDOM
## ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- **Identified by:** BIC, with its LEI
- **Roles in CBPR+:** Debtor agent, creditor agent or an intermediary agent
### CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
```xml
CATEGB21XXX
NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21
```
### Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
```xml
CATEGB21XXX
NJ2Z3LWOIYWE0BE0UJ21
CATER ALLEN LTD.
GB
30 GRESHAM STREET LONDON EC2V 7HT
```
This BIC is not connected to Swift. Messages reach the institution through a correspondent bank, so it cannot be the instructing or instructed agent.
Swift’s two address fields do not agree on a town, so the full record gives the address as address lines only.
The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
## About
From Wikidata, matched on this institution's BIC or LEI
- **Founded:** 1816
- **Headquarters:** London
- **Website:** [caterallen.co.uk ↗](http://www.caterallen.co.uk/)
- **Wikipedia:** [Cater Allen ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cater_Allen)
- **Wikidata:** [Q5051884 ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5051884)
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[All 97 institutions in the Banco Santander S.A. group →](https://elucidate.co/directory/group/5493006QMFDDMYWIAM13)
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[See every BIC in United Kingdom →](https://elucidate.co/directory/country/gb#bics)
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Sources & method
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- **Ownership and group**—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
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