The British Business Bank is a development bank, wholly owned by HM Government, which aims to ensure that finance markets for smaller UK businesses work more effectively, allowing those companies to prosper, grow and build UK economic activity. This helps to make the UK the best place in Europe to start, grow and finance a business. Our objectives include increasing businesses’ awareness of their finance options, encouraging more private sector lending and investment, and increasing the diversity and quantity of finance. Our programmes are designed to bring benefits to smaller businesses that are start-ups, high growth, or viable but simply underfunded.
We have two commercial subsidiaries, British Business Investments Ltd and British Patient Capital Ltd, which make commercial investments into providers of finance to smaller businesses in the UK.
