Metro Bank freezes bid for BoE regulatory sign-off on risk models Date Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 10:00 PM Description Earlier fears over delays to initiative aimed at using UK lender’s internal calculations to model for risk prompted share price fall
Metro Bank in talks about urgent £600mn capital raise Date Wednesday, October 04, 2023 - 11:49 AM Description UK lender’s shares have plunged 50% in recent weeks
Metro Bank to cut 20% of staff Date Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 12:33 AM Description Challenger bank also reviews policy of branches opening seven days a week
Metro Bank wins shareholder support for £925mn refinancing deal Date Monday, November 27, 2023 - 10:48 AM Description More than 90% of UK high street lender’s shareholders vote in favour of cash call
Metro Bank: challenger’s business case now looks licked Date Friday, October 06, 2023 - 7:44 AM Description With an expensive branch network, more scale is needed to get overheads down
Metro Bank’s Colombian billionaire owner takes board seat Date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 5:50 AM Description Jaime Gilinski took controlling stake in UK lender as part of a £925mn refinancing
Metro ex-CEO claims watchdog ‘too busy’ to supervise before £900mn error Date Tuesday, April 01, 2025 - 10:28 AM Description Craig Donaldson and David Arden mount legal challenge over fines meted out by Financial Conduct Authority
Metropolitan Opera’s Il Trovatore is cast with young, exciting singers Date Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 11:00 AM Description New York staging of Verdi’s melodrama is beautifully sung but underpowered
Metropolitan Opera’s ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ is an ambitious portrait of the activist icon Date Tuesday, November 07, 2023 - 10:40 AM Description Anthony Davis’s opera reaches the Met stage nearly 40 years after it was first performed
Metro’s woes bare how current bank rules can distort competition Date Friday, October 13, 2023 - 10:00 PM Description Challenger banks face disadvantages over calculation of required capital buffers