Metro Bank is launching its first start-up accelerator programme: Metro Bank Magic Makers, run in partnership with corporate innovation specialists, L Marks. Since its launch in 2010, Metro Bank has prided itself on taking a new approach to banking and has always been committed to helping SMEs grow and thrive. Through the 10-week immersive Magic Makers programme, successful start-ups will have access to first-class mentorship from Metro Bank senior stakeholders, gaining insights from leading experts in the finance sector and having the opportunity to test and validate their solutions.
A boom in the construction industry created unprecedented demand for the Target Group which specialises in digger, dumper and access platform hire across Colchester and Ipswich, London and Kent.
The UK’s best 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 Fulham Broadway store chose to use their Days to Amaze as volunteers for their local Age UK activity centre.
To commemorate Deaf Awareness Week (3rd-9th May) colleagues from Metro Bank’s Hemel Hempstead store undertook a number of exercises to improve their understanding of what deaf and hard of hearing customers experience.
Metro Bank colleagues from the Wolverhampton store have strapped on their walking boots to fund raise £619 for Women’s Aid.
New research by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in partnership with Metro Bank has revealed the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has set back competition in banking – with the share of personal current accounts now more concentrated than before the 2008 global financial crisis.
Pupils from Prior Western Primary School usually enjoy banking, saving and budgeting lessons as part of Metro Bank’s Money Zone programme, but this year’s COVID restrictions meant that their Year 5 pupils would be the first group in three years to miss out.
Colleagues at Metro Bank’s High Street Kensington, the UK’s best community bank, will be celebrating the store’s tenth birthday this week on May 6th. In celebration, we have dug through our archives for…
The UK’s best 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 Colchester store chose to use their Days to Amaze as volunteers at Clacton FoodCycle which is feeding local families in need.
Colleagues at Metro Bank, the UK’s best community bank, have become the first in the UK to complete the Masters level apprenticeship for senior banking professionals. The course is a fully funded Masters programme and the UK’s first Masters level apprenticeship for senior banking professionals funded from the Apprenticeship Levy.
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