United Kingdom · Financial institution
Shawbrook Bank Limited
Shawbrook Bank Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, with its registered office in London. It is the principal banking subsidiary of Shawbrook Group plc. The group's shares were admitted to the London Stock Exchange Main Market on 4 November 2025. The bank provides specialist lending to SMEs, professional property investors and individuals, and offers personal and business savings accounts. Incorporated in 1944, it traded as Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank Limited until 17 October 2011, when it adopted its current name.
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.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- WWLLGB2BXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under WWLLGB2B directly.
- 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
- 2016-12-27
- Last updated
- 2026-07-28
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Total assets
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Shawbrook Group plc
Institution type
Commercial bank
Trades as Shawbrook
- Ownership
- Shawbrook Group plc holds 75% or more of the shares and voting rights, according to Companies House, and its own shares have been listed on the London Stock Exchange since November 2025.
- Direct parent
- Shawbrook Group plc ↗, United Kingdom
- Head office
- Floor 10, 40 Leadenhall Street, EC3A 2BJ London, United Kingdom
- Company register
- 00388466, Companies House (England and Wales); FCA Financial Services Register number 204574
- Former names
- WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW BANK LIMITED · WHITEAWAY,LAIDLAW & CO.LIMITED · COMMERCIAL CREDIT TRUST (LEEDS) LIMITED
Business lines
The group describes four lending segments: SME, real estate, retail mortgage brands and consumer finance. These are funded mainly by retail savings deposits.
Online
- Websites & references
- shawbrook.co.uk ↗
Wikipedia ↗ - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗
Sources · 12 pages consulted
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00388466
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00388466/officers
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00388466/persons-with-significant-control
- shawbrook.co.uk/
- shawbrook.co.uk/about-us/investors/
- shawbrook.co.uk/about-us/investors/corporate-governance/
- shawbrook.co.uk/about-us/investors/results-centre/
- shawbrook.co.uk/2025results/
- tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026-07-08:newsml_RSH5828La:0-reg-shawbrook-group-plc-appointment-of-ind
- bcpartners.com/news/shawbrook-group-the-high-growth-uk-digital-banking-and-specialist-lending-platform-g
- ca.investing.com/news/company-news/shawbrook-h1-2026-slides-profit-up-16-techdriven-efficiency-gains-93CH-
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawbrook_Bank
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
-
Marcelino Castrillo
Chief Executive Officer
- Chair
-
John Callender
Chairman
- Chief financial officer
-
Dylan Minto
Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
-
Hugh Fitzpatrick
Chief Risk Officer
- Executive
-
Neil Rudge
Chief Banking Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- United Kingdom
- Prudential Regulation Authority Prudential supervisor
- United Kingdom
- Financial Conduct Authority ConductAML supervisor
- United Kingdom
- Bank of England Central bankResolution
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Other
Shawbrook Group agreed to sell its GBP 0.3 billion Blue Motor Finance loan book, with completion expected in the second half of 2026.
ca.investing.com ↗ -
Leadership
Shawbrook Group announced that Vicky Davies will join the boards of the group and the bank as an independent non-executive director from 1 November 2026.
tradingview.com ↗ -
Other
The bank's parent, Shawbrook Group plc, was admitted to the London Stock Exchange Main Market on 4 November 2025.
shawbrook.co.uk ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- WWLLGB2BXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- WWLLBank
- GBCountry · United Kingdom
- 2BLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 213800XSHRKUIZK86B68
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the 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.
- 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
- 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
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
- Shawbrook Group PLC · United Kingdom21380071539WSMTM4410 ↗
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 10F, 40 LEADENHALL STREET LONDON EC3A 2BJ UNITED KINGDOM
- Operational address
- 40 LEADENHALL STREET FLOOR 10 LONDON LONDON EC3A 2BJ 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+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>WWLLGB2BXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>213800XSHRKUIZK86B68</LEI>
</FinInstnId>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
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>WWLLGB2BXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>213800XSHRKUIZK86B68</LEI>
<Nm>SHAWBROOK BANK LIMITED</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>LONDON</TwnNm>
<Ctry>GB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>10F, 40 LEADENHALL STREET LONDON EC3A 2BJ</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>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.
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Sources & method
Every value comes from a public source, such as Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, GLEIF or the OFAC and EU sanctions lists. Most sources are matched on a BIC or an LEI, not on a name.
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Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, leadership, regulators and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the institution's own website and reports, regulators, company registers and news. Figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Logo: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original; Marcelino Castrillo: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original; John Callender: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original; Dylan Minto: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original; Hugh Fitzpatrick: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original; Neil Rudge: shawbrook.co.uk (official website) · original.
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