[6][7] Until December 2023, the Board was chaired by Cyrus Ardalan, former vice-chairman of public policy and government relations at Barclays Bank.

The Board also includes Harvard Business School faculty member and ex-managing director of Bain Capital Edward "Ted" Berk and Robert Burgess.

[16][17][18][19] In May 2016, OakNorth became the first bank to be fully hosted on the cloud after working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the development forward with the regulator.

[25] In March 2023, OakNorth submitted a rescue bid for the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank, being described in The Times as a "white knight".

[27] In March 2024, OakNorth announced its 2023 results, posting a pre-tax profit of £187.3m for the financial year; an increase of almost a quarter (23%) on 2022.

[30] OakNorth Bank has offices in London and Manchester as well as regional hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and East Anglia.

[38][39][40] Outside the bar and restaurant businesses, other high-profile names that OakNorth Bank has funded include Deliciously Ella, Z Hotels, Arora Group, Staycity, Beaverbrook, Mamas & Papas, Third Space,[41] Total Fitness,[42] Ultimate Performance,[43] F1 Arcade and Inception Group.