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November 2021

News

Black Friday Purchase Scams Are Metro Bank’s November Scam of the Month

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, is offering consumers guidance about one of the busiest times of the year for purchase scams – Black Friday. Traditionally, in late November, Black Friday kicks off one of the busiest online shopping sprees as retailers discount massively ahead of Christmas and criminals take advantage of the anonymity of the internet to create new opportunities to trick consumers with purchase scams.

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Metro Bank’s Magic Makers Off to an Impressive Start

Metro Bank First Start-up Collaboration Programme – Phase 1 Update Metro Bank kicked off its first start-up accelerator programme developed with the innovation specialist L Marks in September with three start-up partners - Metro Bank Magic Makers - and the initial results look very promising. Metro Bank is putting the Magic Makers through a rigorous test and trial programme to determine if any of the new technologies will be ultimately employed. The initial 10-week immersive Magic Makers’ programme has just hit the halfway mark with the three successful start-ups Surfly, Solidatus and PolyAI presenting their insights and initial results.

October 2021

Community

Eastbourne Metro Bank Joins St Wilfrid’s Ruby Celebrations

On 29th October, the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, will join hundreds of businesses and individuals in Eastbourne to celebrate St Wilfrid’s Hospice 40th anniversary. Over the past four decades, St Wilfrid’s Hospice has touched the lives of thousands in the community providing end of life care and support.

Community

Metro Bank Puts Kids in The Money Zone

Metro Bank colleagues from the Luton store have delivered Money Zone - a financial education workshop to year 7 students at Chiltern Academy – a local secondary school. The aim of the complimentary workshop is to help instill financial knowledge in students from a young age.

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Metro Bank Helps Care Leavers Become Financially Independent

This week is National Care Leavers Week and the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, is supporting the Care Leaver Covenant – a joint promise made by the private, public and voluntary sectors to provide support for care leavers aged 16-25 to help them to live independently.

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The Future of The High Street Lies 400 Years In The Past

Metro Bank publishes new independent report which predicts what the successful high street of tomorrow could look like, and it’s not what you may think

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Third Quarter 2021 Trading Update

Metro Bank PLC today announces its first quarter trading update for 2021.

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Bradford VIPs Metro Bank Grand Opening

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, hosted a Grand Opening for its new Bradford store on Saturday 16th October when the store was officially opened by Bradford’s Deputy Mayor, Cllr Beverley Mullaney.

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Always On My Mind

On Wednesday 13th October (12p.m – 2p.m), Epsom colleagues from the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, will participate in ‘Epsom Mental Health and Well-Being Festival’ – an annual week-long event staging a series of empowering events aimed at celebrating, supporting and showing love to one another. This festival is organized by the Love Me, Love My Mind charity that promotes a deeper understanding of mental health and supports the wellbeing of people in the community.

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Spoofing Scams Are Metro Bank’s October Scam of the Month

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, is offering consumer guidance about the rise in spoofing scams. Spoofing is the act of disguising a communication, so that it appears to be from a known trusted source but is designed to enable a scammer to defraud you.

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