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August 2021

Community

Metro Bank Puts Kids in the Money Zone

Metro Bank colleagues from the Newbury store have partnered with Education Business Partnership, a charity whose mission is to equip young children with vital skills needed to reach their full potential when they eventually join the workforce. The Newbury colleagues supported the charity’s Ready Steady Jobs event aimed at introducing primary school children to different career choices and helping them shape their thoughts as they set off for secondary school.

News

Bradford Welcomes New Metro Bank

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, opens its 78th store in Bradford, this Friday August 6th, creating 20 new jobs for the area. The new Bradford Metro Bank is the most northern based store, located at Market Street and offers local residents and business seven day a week opening.

Community

A Mountain of a Challenge

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, gives every colleague a Day to Amaze – essentially a paid day off to support a local charity or good cause. Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Birmingham store chose to take on a mammoth task for their Day to Amaze by climbing Mount Snowdon in aid of Edward’s Trust, a charity which provides support to people affected by grief.

News

Money Mules are August’s Scam of the Month

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, is offering consumer guidance about how to avoid becoming a money mule and the serious consequences of doing so - the scam of the month for August. A money mule is a person who is recruited, sometimes unwittingly, by criminals to gain access to their bank account with the promise of financial gain. Teenagers, young and vulnerable people are often targeted as money mules when fraudsters offered phones, games consoles or other high value items in exchange for their legitimate bank account numbers and passwords. In 2020, UK banks identified 8,791money mule accounts owned by people under the age of 21.

Community

Bank Job

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, gives every colleague a Day to Amaze – essentially a paid day off to support a local charity or good cause. Newly recruited colleagues from Metro Bank’s yet to be opened Bradford Store have already been supporting their local community ahead of the store opening in early August.

July 2021

Community

Councillors Visit Sheffield Metro Bank

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, welcomed the leader of Sheffield City Council, councillor Terry Fox and the deputy leader, councillor Julie Grucott at its Fargate store this week.

News

Interim results for half year ended 30 June 2021

Metro Bank PLC today announced its interim results for half year 2021

Community

Pedal Power

Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Hemel Hempstead and St Albans’ stores volunteered to support local homeless charity DENS when COVID restrictions impacted DENS ability to stage the Hemel Hill Buster - a massive cycling fundraising event.

Community

Career Break

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, gives every colleague a Day to Amaze – essentially a paid day off to support a local charity or good cause. Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Southend store chose to use their Days to Amaze as volunteers for the Phabulous Café a charity run café which provides on the job training to assist youths with additional needs.

Product

Metro Bank cuts rates on higher LTV mortgages

The specialist lender Metro Bank today unveils further product enhancements for its growing number of customers.

PRESS ENQUIRIES

Metro Bank Media Team

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