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November 2021

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Why Hire Veterans & Encourage Reserve Service Within Your Organisation?

The Ministry of Defence recently awarded Metro Bank with its Gold Award in recognition of its commitment to Armed Forces veterans and reservists.  Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, Metro Bank’s Rupert Stevens – a former Army veteran - explains why supporting and recruiting Forces’ personnel is an excellent return on investment for any company.

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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

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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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Third Quarter 2021 Trading Update

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

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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.

September 2021

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Metro Bank Launches Bilingual ATMS in Wales

Metro Bank, the UK’s community bank, has been committed to providing in store services in the Welsh language and now its customers can use its Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in both English and Welsh.

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Metro Bank hosts free events to proactively support female entrepreneurs

Metro Bank has created a series of free events to support female led businesses and start-ups and to help women in business learn more about access to finance while providing greater networking opportunities

Corporate

Metro Bank Supports TAKE 5 Week

Take Five is a national awareness week that offers straight-forward and impartial advice to help everyone protect themselves from preventable financial fraud. This includes email deception and phone-based scams as well as online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations. The focus for this year is The Art of Saying No.

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New Car Licence Plate Drives Scams In September

The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, is offering consumer guidance about the rise in purchase scams around car sales, finance and leasing as the new number plates launch in September.

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