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The founder of Metro Bank, a UK challenger bank, says app-only banks are "all hype" and sees them more as a provider of solutions and not banking; Vernon Hill told Business Insider in an interview that Metro Bank has been around for six years, has a market cap of $3.2 billion but only started to become profitable now; he went on to say: "No mobile-only bank can deliver anything I can't deliver in the next minute and a half. What they're offering you is a tool, not a solution. The customer wants the best of every channel and my job is to deliver them the best of every channel." Source
UK based challenger banks Starling Bank, Metro Bank and ClearBank were awarded more than $365mn of the RBS Competition Fund;...
UK challenger bank Metro Bank sees the value in having branches along with the innovation they are doing; speaking at The Economist's Finance Disrupted conference, Metro Bank CEO Craig Donaldson explained that offering the right mix of both is the key for his firm; reliance on one solution or the other does not allow them to serve customers in the way they would like, though he did say that the market has room for the digital only bank. Source
The UK’s banking market has seen a number of new entrants since the financial crisis but it hasn’t been easy...
The challenges continue to mount for UK challenger Metro Bank; founded by the former head of Commerce Bank in NJ,...
One of the most innovative banks in Europe is now partnering with Airbnb to allow residential mortgage customers to rent their properties; Metro Bank will allow customers to rent their homes for up to 90 days without any written approval; Paul Riseborough, chief commercial officer at Metro Bank explained, "Our focus is on making our customers' lives as straightforward and convenient as possible and we therefore hope today's news will give our customers the reassurance they need to jump in and take advantage of everything the dynamic sharing economy has to offer." Source
Metro Bank is in talks to acquire one of the largest p2p lenders in the UK in RateSetter; according to...