HM Treasury

What HM Treasury does

HM Treasury is the United Kingdom's central economics and finance ministry, responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance and economic policy. Headquartered at 1 Horse Guards Road, Westminster, the department sets fiscal policy, manages public spending, oversees financial services regulation, and coordinates with the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on monetary, regulatory, and cyber-risk matters. It is accountable to Parliament through the Chancellor of the Exchequer and is one of the oldest departments of state, with origins tracing to the establishment of the Lord High Treasurer in 1126 and the formal adoption of the HM Treasury name in 1966.

HM Treasury operates through two principal wholly-owned arms: National Savings & Investments (NS&I), the government's retail savings bank, and the UK Debt Management Office (DMO), which handles gilt issuance and debt management. Its disclosed technology activities include a pilot programme for Digital Gilt Instruments using the HSBC Orion blockchain platform to improve debt-market efficiency, and a £3 billion NS&I Digital Modernization Project that replaces the Atos-era legacy core banking platform (in operation since 1999) with a cloud-native platform from SBS, targeted for completion in 2028. The department is also advancing regulatory frameworks in cooperation with the Bank of England — notably a consultation on systemic stablecoin regulation covering backing-asset limits and holding restrictions — and has announced reforms to align the Financial Ombudsman Service with FCA procedures following a July 2025 consultation.

Because HM Treasury is a government department, it has no commercial revenue model and no pricing or go-to-market motion in the conventional sense. Activities are funded through parliamentary appropriations, and policy is disseminated via the GOV.UK official portal and official press releases. Its "customers" are effectively the UK Government and Public Sector, UK financial institutions (as regulated entities), and UK businesses and citizens (as the subjects of fiscal and tax policy). Distribution is implemented through legislation, regulation, and inter-departmental coordination rather than commercial channels.

Name

HM Treasury

Legal name

HM Treasury

Website

https://gov.uk

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

HM Treasury is the United Kingdom's central economics and finance ministry, accountable to Parliament via the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It sets fiscal policy, manages public spending, regulates financial services with the Bank of England and FCA, and oversees NS&I and the UK Debt Management Office.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Finance & Economic Policy

NAICS

Public Finance Activities (921130)

SIC

Federal & Federally-Sponsored Credit Agencies (6111), Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Treasury & Cash Management (BPAIAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Government Accounting & Financial Reporting (BPAIAEAD)

Keywords

• Fiscal policy
• Public finance
• Economic policy
• Government debt management
• Financial regulation

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

HM Treasury is the United Kingdom's economics and finance ministry, responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy. It sets the UK's fiscal policy, oversees public spending, manages government debt through the UK Debt Management Office, regulates financial services in coordination with bodies such as the Bank of England and FCA, and represents the UK in international economic forums. It is funded through annual parliamentary supply estimates rather than commercial revenue.

Product overview

HM Treasury does not operate a commercial product portfolio. It is a UK government department responsible for economic and financial policy. The department's technology activities include the Digital Gilt Instrument pilot initiative for blockchain-based debt market operations with HSBC Orion platform provider, as well as oversight of digital modernization projects such as the National Savings & Investments (NS&I) cloud-native banking platform replacement (involving SBS as platform provider and Atos legacy system replacement).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Digital Gilt Instrument
• NS&I Digital Modernization Project

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HSBC OrioncoreTechnology or Integration · 12 February 2026HM Treasury selected HSBC Orion as the platform provider for a pilot issuance of Digital Gilt Instruments in the UK. HSBC and the UK government aim to leverage blockchain technology to improve debt market efficiency and liquidity.
• UzbekistanminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 October 2025Saida Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan, met with UK Treasury officials including the Economic Secretary to discuss Uzbekistan's reforms, WTO accession, and economic ties. The meeting highlighted increasing UK companies operating in Uzbekistan.
• Bank of EnglandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHM Treasury works with the Bank of England on regulatory frameworks for stablecoins, digital securities, and broader digital finance priorities. The Bank of England published a consultation paper on regulating systemic stablecoins with proposals including backing asset limits and holding restrictions.
• Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHM Treasury coordinates with the FCA on financial regulation, including evaluating cybersecurity risks from AI models like Anthropic's Claude Mythos, and reforming the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) procedures.
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUK financial regulators including HM Treasury are holding urgent discussions with the NCSC to assess cybersecurity risks from AI models like Anthropic's Claude Mythos, which can detect vulnerabilities in key IT systems.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• U.S. Federal Reserve: Closely related U.S. public-finance institution with overlapping influence on monetary conditions, financial stability, and digital-currency research; a peer in regulatory scope though not a ministry.
• HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC): The UK tax authority, operating under the Treasury's policy oversight. Closely related peer with shared governance and direct exposure to UK public-finance flows.
• Bank of England: The UK's central bank, operating alongside HM Treasury on monetary policy, financial stability, and digital-finance frameworks (including the joint stablecoin consultation). Closely intertwined peer with overlapping authority over UK financial markets.

Direct peers

• U.S. Department of the Treasury: The U.S. federal counterpart to HM Treasury, with the same core remit of fiscal policy, public debt issuance, financial regulation oversight, and international economic coordination. Directly comparable in mandate, scale, and operating model.
• Bundesministerium der Finanzen (German Federal Ministry of Finance): Germany's federal finance ministry, with an analogous mandate covering national fiscal policy, federal budget execution, EU economic coordination, and financial-market regulation — a direct national-treasury peer.
• UK Debt Management Office (DMO): Wholly-owned Treasury subsidiary responsible for gilt issuance and UK government debt management. Directly comparable on the sovereign-debt-operations dimension of HM Treasury's remit.
• National Savings and Investments (NS&I): Wholly-owned Treasury subsidiary that runs the UK's government-backed retail savings scheme. Directly comparable as a Treasury-controlled public finance vehicle.
• Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances (France): The French ministry of economy and finance performs the same sovereign functions as HM Treasury: budget policy, taxation, public debt, and financial-sector regulation, making it a directly comparable national-treasury peer.

Others

• International Monetary Fund (IMF): Multilateral institution coordinating international monetary and fiscal cooperation. Comparable as an intergovernmental economic-policy counterpart that HM Treasury engages on global financial stability matters.
• OECD: International organization setting cross-country standards on economic policy, taxation, and financial regulation. Peer in the international economic-policy coordination dimension of HM Treasury's remit.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hmtreasury
• Facebookfacebook.com/hmtreasury
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hm-treasury

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

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M&A

Investments5 records

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