About Monteeno
Monteeno was created to give young people practical financial knowledge before they begin making important financial decisions for themselves.
Why Monteeno exists
Young people encounter increasingly complex financial decisions as they move through secondary school and into work or further education.
Monteeno turns those topics into a structured programme designed around UK financial life: earning and budgeting, saving and banking, borrowing and debt, tax and student finance, scams and insurance, investing and longer-term planning. The material is built for pupils aged 11–18 and gets progressively more advanced as they get older.
Our principles
UK-focused financial education
Pounds, UK banking, UK tax basics and UK student finance, rather than material written for another country.
Practical rather than product-led
We teach how money works and how decisions are made, not which product to buy.
No advertising to pupils
Pupils are not shown advertising while they are learning.
No financial product sales
Monteeno does not sell investments, credit or any other financial product to pupils.
Founder
Akhilesh Sharma is a financial trainer and consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in banking and finance.
He previously worked at Barclays, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas, and holds an MSc in Mathematical Trading & Finance from Bayes Business School and the CISI Level 4 Diploma in Investment Advice.
He’s trained teams at Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, Nomura, NatWest, Investec, J. Safra Sarasin, KKR, Shell and Trafigura, amongst others, and government departments in the UK, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Working with Monteeno
Selected UK secondary schools can use Monteeno free for the 2026/27 academic year. Parents can buy Monteeno for their own teenager, and the first module is free.