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April 2025

Corporate

Metro Bank Scores A Hat Trick at The UK Sponsorship Awards

Metro Bank won three awards at The UK Sponsorship Awards as the Champion of Women’s and Girls’ cricket: Best Sponsorship of the Year, Best Women’s Sport Sponsorship and Best Social Purpose Sponsorship – Community Focus.

News

Metro Bank launches first AI scam detection tool with Ask Silver

Metro Bank has today become the first UK bank to partner with award winning AI scam detector, Ask Silver – allowing customers to spot scams more easily and protect them from fraud. The Metro Bank Scam Checker powered by Ask Silver uses bespoke AI technology to enable Metro Bank’s personal and business customers to instantly check whether they are at risk of a scam. Using their phone or tablet, Metro Bank customers can now simply take a photo or screenshot of any email, website, letter or leaflet they are suspicious about and using the Metro Bank Scam Checker send it via WhatsApp. Ask Silver will then use the power of AI to spot if the communication is fraudulent and provide suggestions for next steps on staying safe – in just minutes. This feature, which is simple and easy to use, will help give customers a route to peace of mind and has the potential to stop scams from taking place.

News

Hammersmith Metro Bank Hosts Marketing Workshop

Hammersmith Metro Bank will be hosting a marketing workshop at its Kings Mall store on Wednesday April 16th from 2.30 – 5.30pm.

March 2025

News

Metro Bank strengthens commercial lending team in Wales and the South-West

Metro Bank has appointed Richard Jenkins as Commercial Lending Director for Wales and the South-West.

News

Metro Bank partners with Covecta to boost Corporate & Commercial technology

Metro Bank has announced a new partnership with Covecta, an AI platform for financial services that will be deployed across its corporate and commercial credit businesses.

Regional

Metro Bank Strengthens Commercial Lending in North-West

Paul Gaynor and Louise Molloy join as Commercial Lending Directors within the North-West region.

Regional

Netwalking Is The New Networking…

Championed by Metro Bank’s Local Director Steve Degg’s the inaugural Netwalking event has just taken place bringing together nearly 20 local businesses for a turn around the lovely streets of Hull for some mutual commercial chat.

Community

Metro Bank Supports No More Week

Metro Bank is supporting this year’s No More Week (March 2nd – 8th), part of the UK Says No More campaign organised by domestic abuse charity Hestia. The theme of the week is ‘No More Silence’.

February 2025

Corporate

Metro Bank Full Year Results 2024

Daniel Frumkin, Chief Executive Officer at Metro Bank, said: "It has been a transformational year for Metro Bank as we made substantial progress against our strategy, ending the period ahead of guidance, profitable, and with strong momentum going forward.” “We have successfully continued our pivot towards higher margin business in the form of corporate, commercial and SME lending and specialist mortgages, while also taking significant steps to reduce our costs and optimising our funding model. We have simplified and strengthened our balance sheet, and as a result, end the year with a robust capital position.” “Our network of stores helps us grow our target markets, with our specialist relationship banking colleagues driving positive outcomes for customers and communities across the UK. We are delivering on our strategy. Looking forward, we are confident that Metro Bank has a strong and compelling plan, differentiated model and clear path forward to further growth.”

Bath Metro Bank Celebrates International Women’s Day with Women Mean Biz Event

Metro Bank will be hosting a celebration for International Women’s Day – the Women Mean Biz event - at its Stall Street store on Thursday March 6th from 6pm – 8.30pm. The Women Mean Biz event will be hosted by Nicky Bevan – a life coach for working mums and feature an outstanding group of inspirational women speakers.

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