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Metro Bank

  • Metro Bank trims losses as loans and deposits double over 2014

    January 21, 2015

    Challenger bank Metro cut its losses to £8.9m in the final quarter of 2014 as it edges towards profitability, its financial results showed yesterday. That compares with £9.4m in the previous three-month period. The bank hopes to break even later this year, and is looking to float on the stock market in 2016. Metro said [...]

  • Luke Johnson steps down from Metro Bank board

    October 23, 2014

    Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson has resigned his position as a non-executive of Metro Bank. Johnson told Sky News that the time commitments now required for the role were becoming too great for him to maintain his position at Britain's first new high street bank for over 100 years. He joined Metro Bank in 2011. Johnson made [...]

  • Metro Bank closer to profit as lending levels more than double

    October 22, 2014

    Challenger bank Metro lost £9.4m in the third quarter, improving on the £11.4m loss in the same period of 2013. The lender, which has been nominated for a City A.M. award this year, saw its deposits jump 118 per cent on the year to £2.34bn. At the same time, its loan book increased by 146 [...]

  • Metro Bank on verge of making its first profits

    July 23, 2014

    METRO Bank should be profitable within the next year, chief executive Craig Donaldson said yesterday, as the bank unveiled its latest set of losses. The challenger bank lost £9.8m in the second quarter of the year, an improvement on the £10.6m loss in the previous three-month period. It has defended its losses by arguing that [...]

  • Metro Bank’s Vernon Hill slams failed banking system at London liberty conference

    June 18, 2014

    Founder of Metro Bank Vernon Hill has criticised the UK's banking sector for failing consumers and lacking innovation at a conference held by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). Speaking In London's Guild Hall, Hill told a packed audience that the current banking system had failed society and was taking customers for granted. The boss [...]

  • Metro Bank sees jump in commercial lending

    May 1, 2014

    Metro Bank has reported a surge in commercial loans to £960m, a year-on-year increase of 298 per cent and a rise of 27 per cent in the quarter to 31 March. The insurgent bank established in 2010 also saw deposits rise to £1.6bn, a 131 per cent increase from the previous year. Britain's first new [...]

  • Metro founder launches online lender Atom

    April 9, 2014

    METRO Bank co-founder Anthony Thomson is applying for a licence for an online-only bank Atom, and hopes to launch the lender next year. He wants to target customers who use banking apps on mobiles and tablets, rather than setting up a branch network to compete with Metro’s high street presence. “The big banks might be [...]

  • Atom Bank shows how Metro changed the industry

    April 9, 2014

    When Metro Bank launched in 2010 it was a shock. Not just to the eye, with its bold, bright colours, but to the high street, its competitors – and the regulator. It was the first time a new bank had been given a licence in more than 100 years and the authorities were not prepared. [...]

  • Metro Bank: First London – next, the rest of the UK

    February 23, 2014

    Metro Bank’s chairman and founder tells Tim Wallace he wants to take the Southern-focused lender out to a national audience IT HAS shaken up London’s retail banking scene, with bright new branches on busy high streets, and a bold American-style service ethos. But although Metro Bank startled the market as Britain’s first lender in more [...]

  • Metro Bank in running for PwC bank contract

    February 18, 2014

    METRO Bank, RBS and Santander are understood to be among the banks bidding for PwC’s business, as the professional services firm shakes up its finance relationships. The changes come as PwC takes on HSBC as an audit client, and so can no longer bank with the firm. PwC also audits Barclays and Lloyds, narrowing the field in [...]

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