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ExplainerMetro Bank
How Metro Bank’s challenging week unfolded
...Metro became the first new high street bank in the UK for a century when it opened its flagship branch in Holborn, in central London, in 2010....
October 6, 2023
Metro Bank
NatWest and Lloyds among rivals weighing bids for parts of Metro Bank
...Metro, the first of a wave of challenger banks that promised to upend the established order in UK retail banking following the financial crisis, is racing to shore up its finances....
October 8, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News updates from March 12: US House votes through bill to ban TikTok; Geert Wilders announces he will not be Netherlands PM
Metro Bank to cut another £30mn off costs
...Metro Bank has promised to cut another £30mn off costs, adding to a £50mn plan already in place, as it pushes ahead with its restructuring programme....
March 13, 2024
Metro Bank
Metro Bank’s Colombian billionaire owner takes board seat
...Metro became the first new high street bank in the UK for a century when it opened its flagship branch in Holborn, in central London, in 2010....
January 24, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
Bank of Japan ditches negative rates
...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...
March 20, 2024
News updates from March 21: US accuses Apple of building a smartphone monopoly; Reddit soars in New York IPO
Mexico’s central bank makes first interest rate cut this cycle
...The Bank of Mexico on Thursday cut interest rates for the first time in this cycle, making it the latest major Latin American central bank to begin lowering borrowing costs....
March 21, 2024
FT Live
Building an AI-First Organisation
How can business leaders use AI to drive value?
Thursday, 25 AprilHôtel Lutetia, Paris, France
Metro Bank
Metro Bank to cut 20% of staff
...The bank first ran into trouble after the Bank of England declined in September to grant it capital relief for mortgage lending until at least 2024, which resulted in a capital hole....
November 30, 2023
Nigeria
Nigeria raises interest rates to 22.75% in first meeting since July
...Nigeria’s central bank sharply raised interest rates to 22.75 per cent at its first meeting since July as Africa’s most populous country hopes to contain its most severe economic crisis in almost three decades...
February 27, 2024
German economy
German economy to keep shrinking, Bundesbank warns
...The central bank said recent train and airport strikes could hit production in the first quarter, while order books for industry and construction were “dwindling”....
February 19, 2024
Central banks
What happens when a central bank runs out of money?
...Beyond this simply fabulous resource, the paper explores the age-old question as to whether central banks even need capital in the first place....
April 8, 2024
Global Economy
When will the Bank of Japan next raise interest rates?
...The Bank of Japan is likely to hold off from raising interest rates next week but investors expect the central bank to outline its response to rising inflationary pressures caused by the yen’s decline....
April 21, 2024
Due Diligence
Metro Bank’s mad dash for cash Premium content
...In today’s newsletter: Metro Bank’s messy week Abcam’s takeover drama The regulatory saga that left Metro Bank in a pinch Metro Bank hasn’t exactly been on a tear in recent years....
October 6, 2023
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
April 21, 2024
LexMetro Bank
Metro Bank: challenger’s business case now looks licked Premium content
...Metro Bank’s first London branch opened with an unlikely combination of polished marble, chrome and free lollipops in 2010....
October 6, 2023
Metro Bank
The very costly and unpleasant business of saving Metro Bank
...Further reading— The Metro Bank Coin Caper (FTAV)— A brief look at Metro Bank’s offer document (FTAV)— The misregulation of Vernon Hill (FT)— How Metro’s challenging week unfolded (FT)— Lex readers weigh...
October 9, 2023
FT Live
Global Banking Summit
The world's top gathering of leaders in finance
Tuesday, 3 DecemberLondon, UK
News updates from March 19: Bank of Japan ends negative rate era; Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder
Japan’s central bank ends era of negative interest rates
...The Bank of Japan has raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, becoming the world’s last central bank to end negative rates as the country puts decades of deflation behind it....
March 19, 2024
Lex PopuliAdvice & Comment
Metro Bank cannot branch out given capital constraints
...Launched in 2010, Metro was the first of a new breed of challenger banks that regulators hoped would shake up the banking market after the financial crisis of 2008-09....
October 13, 2023
News updates from March 21: US accuses Apple of building a smartphone monopoly; Reddit soars in New York IPO
Swiss franc weakens as central bank makes surprise rate cut
...The moves came after the Swiss National Bank became the first major central bank to start easing monetary policy as it unexpectedly cut its headline interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.5 per cent....
March 21, 2024
Central banks
In charts: the quarter when central banks wrong-footed the markets Premium content
...It persistently changes its inflation forecasts more than other central banks. There are two reasons for this. First, volatile UK gas and electricity prices is something the BoE can do nothing about....
April 2, 2024
Due Diligence
Meet Metro Bank’s new billionaire owner Premium content
...Gilinski first took a stake in Metro in November 2019 when he picked up 9 per cent after its accounting scandal and the bank’s subsequent £375mn cash call....
October 10, 2023
News updates from March 15: US home fees set to fall; Foxconn boosts outlook on AI hopes
US stocks notch weekly drop as central bank decisions loom
...US stocks notched their first back-to-back weekly loss in more than four months, with investors now looking ahead to several central bank decisions next week....
March 15, 2024
Chris Giles on Central Banks
Three errors in inflation control Premium content
...It showed that the central bank employs many PhD researchers in the core areas of modelling, the majority of whom spend little or no time on the core function of the central bank....
April 16, 2024
Metro Bank
Metro Bank bondholders give approval to refinancing deal
...The agreement capped a torrid week for the challenger bank, the first of a crop of lenders that promised to shake up the UK high street in the wake of the financial crisis....
October 11, 2023
On Wall StreetLaura Noonan
Metro’s woes bare how current bank rules can distort competition
...He is also the founder of Commerce Bank, acquired by Toronto-Dominion Bank in 2007 for $8.5bn, and the tiny Philadelphia-based Republic First Bancorp, which has suffered its own financial difficulties....
October 14, 2023
Metro Bank
Metro Bank in talks about urgent £600mn capital raise
...Metro’s 2010 launch marked the first new UK bank on the high street in more than 100 years, making it the poster child for the growth of challenger banks....
October 4, 2023

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