Thought Machine

Thought Machine is a London-based cloud banking technology company that was founded in 2014 by Paul Taylor. It operates in the United Kingdom, Singapore, the United States, and Australia.^[1][2][3]

Thought Machine

Industry	Financial technology
Founded	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Founder	Paul Taylor
Headquarters	London , United Kingdom
Products	Cloud banking software
Website	www.thoughtmachine.net

History

Thought Machine was founded in 2014 by Paul Taylor.^[4][5][6] In 2018, Thought Machine formed a partnership with Lloyds Banking Group which also participated in Thought Machine's $25 million Series A funding round.^[7]

In 2019 the company launched its Asia Pacific office in Singapore. Nordic financial group SEB launched UNQUO, a bank designed for entrepreneurs, on Thought Machine’s Vault Core.^[8]

In August 2020, Thought Machine joined Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), a non-profit network that provides a common framework for banking.^[9] That same year the company raised $125m in a Series B funding round from Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, British Business Bank, SEB, and existing investors.^[10][11] Also in 2020, Andy Maguire, former HSBC Group COO, joined Thought Machine as Chair.^[12][13]

In 2021, Thought Machine closed a $200m Series C funding round, raising the company's valuation to $1bn. After that JPMorgan Chase and ING Poland became its new clients, with JPMorgan planning to use Thought Machine's technology for its retail bank.^[14][15][16]

In 2022, it announced several clients, including Kiwibank (New Zealand) and Italy's largest bank: Intesa Sanpaolo. Temasek, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Morgan Stanley invested in Thought Machine's $160m series D funding round, doubling the company's valuation to $2.7bn.^[17][18][19] In February, Vietnamese banking and financial services provider HD Bank has selected Thought Machine to upgrade its core banking system.^[20][21]

In 2023 Thought Machine partnered with C6 Bank and a fintech platform HMBradley.^[22][23][24]

Operations

Thought Machine has offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, and Melbourne.^[25][26] The company develops two products: Vault Core, a cloud-native technology for creating financial products using smart contracts with real-time data access; and Vault Payments, a platform enabling processing of all types of global payments. Some of Thought Machine's clients are JPMorgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Chartered Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, M1, and Arvest Bank.^{[27][28][29][30]}