Tagged: metro bank

December 21, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  UK banking group NatWest announced on Monday it has entered into an agreement with Metro Bank to acquire a £3 billion portfolio of prime UK mortgages. According to NatWest, the portfolio consists of owner-occupied residential mortgages with a weighted average current loan to value of… Read More

October 18, 2020 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An investor has reportedly been attempting to get her funds out of one of the UK’s largest peer to peer (P2P) lending platforms, RateSetter, since August 2020. According to a report from the Guardian, the investor (Michelle Johnson) was told by RateSetter’s management that her… Read More

August 21, 2020 @ 9:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based banking group and lender Metro Bank announced on Friday it has formed a partnership with Clear Books to offer account software with free bank feeds and exclusive discounts to the bank’s small business customers. Metro Bank reported that the integration provides its customers with… Read More

August 11, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based banking group and lender Metro Bank announced on Monday it has launched AI-powered receipt management technology for business customers through its mobile app. According to Metro, the technology enables businesses to capture, store and link their receipts to transactions in their mobile business app…. Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RateSetter, a leading UK based peer to peer lender, has rebranded its Australian P2P lending platform to Plenti. Head of Marketing at Plenti, Sebastian Paulin, shared more details about the rebranding, by stating: “As Plenti, we want to help our customers make the most of… Read More

August 3, 2020 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter, a leading UK based peer to peer lender, has been acquired by Metro Bank. The purchase of RateSetter has long been anticipated as the P2P lender messaged earlier that it was exploring “strategic options” – a euphemism for a sale. In June, there were… Read More

June 15, 2020 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based banking group and lender Metro Bank is reportedly in advanced talks to purchase p2p lending platform Ratesetter. According to Sky News, the duo has entered into exclusive discussions about the acquisition. Founded in 2010, RateSetter states it offers a “simple and accessible way” to… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Metro Bank was reportedly the first financial institution in the UK to allow users to freeze their cards in case they lost it. The feature was introduced in 2014. The freeze feature blocks transactions via payment cards through software, but it’s reversible so the card… Read More

October 12, 2019 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based challenger Metro Bank is expanding its offering for business clients through several new Fintech partnerships. In February 2019, Metro Bank won £120 million (appr. $150 million) from the £750 million (appr. $935 million) Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bailout fund aimed at promoting competition… Read More

July 13, 2018 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

British banking group, Metro Bank, announced on Friday the launch its new developer portal, which opens up the bank’s platform to FCA-registered third parties that are wishing to build services on top of its APIs. According to Metro, the self-service portal was built in collaboration… Read More

September 3, 2017 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Timelio, an online invoice financing marketplace operating in Australia, has received the backing of Anthony Thomson – a leading Fintech entrepreneur who is founder and Chairman of Atom Bank and founder and former Chairman of Metro Bank. Both Atom Bank and Metro Bank have positioned… Read More

November 21, 2016 @ 10:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Metro Bank announced it has teamed up with fintech company Backbase to launch a new commercial banking platform. This collaboration was reportedly established to further Metro Bank’s customer base expansion. According to Metro Bank, the new banking platform will allow customers to have… Read More

November 17, 2016 @ 9:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

SETL, Deloitte and Metro Bank have successfully demonstrated a contactless blockchain smartcard retail payment system for 100 customers of the UK-based challenger bank, according to a release. The project is part of SETL’s FCA Sandbox participation, which creates a ‘safe space’ in which businesses can test… Read More

August 7, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Giles Andrews  |  

This is a question I get asked a lot. And the usual line of thinking of those asking the question is that it does matter.  The common assumption is that the increased activity of “institutional” funds is crowding out the core retail investors that platforms… Read More

July 22, 2015 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

New forms of finance are poised to inalterably change the entire finance industry ecosystem we know today.  Investment crowdfunding, and the various iterations of alternative finance, are still in the early stages of its evolution.   The disruptive finance industry is measured in mere billions… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 8:03 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Peer-to-peer lending pioneer Zopa today announced a partnership with leading challenger bank, Metro Bank, to lend funds through Zopa’s online marketplace.This innovative deal is the first of its kind in the UK and a clear signal that some parts of the UK banking sector are embracing… Read More