“Can a purpose-built agricultural bank and proprietary core banking platform own the financial infrastructure of the UK rural economy and export that platform internationally?”
Founded in 2018, Oxbury Bank is the UK's only specialist agricultural bank, purpose-built to serve the rural economy — a sector largely underserved by incumbent high-street banks. The bank built its own core banking platform (Oxbury Earth) to enable rapid product deployment and embedded finance opportunities across the UK food supply chain. Having achieved profitability by 2023 and surpassed £1bn in lending, Oxbury is now expanding upstream into corporate agricultural finance and exploring its platform's software licensing potential internationally.
Oxbury discloses ClearBank as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Oxbury does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through ClearBank.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Oxbury's stack: Banking / BaaS (ClearBank); Lending (Oxbury Farm Credit, Oxbury Flexi Credit, Oxbury Farm Loans, Oxbury New Gen and 2 others).
Oxbury is founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chester, United Kingdom.
Oxbury has raised $335.9M in total.
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