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...By this point, officials at the Treasury were also monitoring the situation at Metro and receiving regular updates from the BoE....
...NatWest, Lloyds, Santander, JPMorgan, HSBC, Metro Bank, EY, the PRA and the Financial Conduct Authority all declined to comment....
...While most of the staff reductions at global banks this year have affected less than 5 per cent of staff, the UK’s Metro Bank has announced plans to cut a fifth of its workforce....
...It was one of several high street lenders that considered bids for Metro Bank when the UK challenger ran into trouble last month....
...Metro added: “Support for the debt refinancing is one of the key pillars to the implementation of the transaction set out in the [Sunday] announcement.”...
...Bacal’s investment vehicle Spaldy is to become the bank’s majority shareholder. Read more about Metro Bank here....
...The PRA said it welcomed “the steps taken by Metro Bank to strengthen its capital position”....
...The prospect that the bank might have to raise new funds sent Metro’s shares tumbling 26 per cent on Thursday....
...”, according to the V&A Museum’s Christopher Turner, writing in Apollo magazine in 2021....
...Maybe he has learnt his lesson, for his first two games in Wijk were both impressive victories in the complex style that used to be his trademark. Puzzle 2555 Owen Robson v Daniel Hill, York 2022....
...He was inspired by women he sees on the Metro, “their realness, the opposite of polished and bourgeois, dressing to express yourself and be innovative”....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...‘Gaza metro’: The Israeli army has taken journalists to see a “flagship” Hamas-built tunnel, part of a network estimated to be as long as 500km and bigger than the London Underground....
...Head underneath the metro line, across the boulevard and continue for 500m until you meet the next big road....
...“Beyond Repair” by 85-year-old, Cambridgeshire-based potter Elspeth Owen brings together clay elements that will disintegrate during the six weeks of the biennial....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...The Tokyo Metro, the busiest in the world, has already adopted platform-edge doors. The Namboku Line was the first to do so when it opened in 1991....
...Cities as diverse as Paris, Auckland, and Ho Chi Minh City are pressing forward with building new urban metro systems, while the government in Malta unveiled a proposal for a new island-wide metro last year...
...First, Owen Walker talks to the chief executive of the app that investment banks are using to keep a closer eye on staff....
...Of the 1867 music heard, Owens and Polenzani have the plum, a duet with a theme Verdi recycled for his Requiem....
...In the new V&A exhibition, “Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear”, there is an ensemble worn by non-binary singer Sam Smith with an oversized blazer from former Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano...
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...“As far as I know, the history of the tank top starts from the 1930s, where men would wear a V-neck slipover that was often knitted at home,” says Paul Smith of the tank, from his Covent Garden headquarters...
...Metro BankLast orders Metro Bank chief executive Dan Frumkin is unlikely to be on the guest list when the Conduit Club finds a new home....
...Meanwhile at Rick Owens, exaggerated pointy shoulders added to the enjoyably sinister, underworld mood....
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