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The premiere of Nine’s Travel Guides attracted less than 600,000 metro viewers on Tuesday night. The third season of the TV series – delayed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic – brought in a figure of 584,000 when it aired at 7.30pm. Melbourne was home to the highest number of viewers, topping the chart … Read more
Metro Bank sells off a third of its mortgage book to NatWest: What’s behind the move and how does it affect customers? The challenger bank has sold a third of its residential mortgages to NatWest Around 13,000 loans will be transferred across in the next 18 months Metro Bank says ‘nothing changes at the moment’ … Read more
DIRECTOR DEALS: Metro Bank boss Daniel Frumkin snaps up 1.85m shares in the lender for £1.1m By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 6 November 2020 The Arsenal-supporting boss of Metro Bank snapped up 1.85m shares in the lender. British-American businessman Daniel Frumkin, 56, who … Read more
A Metro Bank customer lost £26,000 after a fraudster took advantage of compromised card details to scam him twice in what the bank described as a sophisticated social engineering scam. The man from Bedford, who did not wish to be named, said he was left checking his online banking ‘every five minutes’ after fraudsters accessed … Read more
Metro Bank joins the renewed current account bribe battle: It launches refer a friend bonus which could see existing customers earn up to £250 The bank will pay existing customers and up to five friends £50 each They must switch using CASS and pay in £500 for two months It is the second current account … Read more
Last December, the chief executive of the peer-to-peer lending platform RateSetter, Rhydian Lewis, described new rules designed to better protect casual investors in the sector as ‘a Darwinian process… that will lead to a stronger industry’. But just eight months later Lewis’ platform, one of Britain’s ‘big three’ in peer-to-peer investing, announced it had been … Read more
Metro Bank swings to a £240m loss as the troubled challenger bank is battered by the economic fallout from the pandemic By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 09:36 BST, 5 August 2020 | Updated: 09:36 BST, 5 August 2020 Metro Bank swung to a heavy loss in the first half of the financial … Read more
Despite Metro Bank’s tenth birthday just five months away, new chief executive Dan Frumkin didn’t appear to be in the mood for celebrations in late February. Given the job on a full-time basis just a week earlier, having run the bank on an interim basis since January, one of his first acts was to detail … Read more
Big Brother’s ratings are in: Season premiere doesn’t quite reach the ‘magic million’ – but still surpasses The Voice Australia and MasterChef By Jessamy Tredinnick For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:40 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 01:42 BST, 9 June 2020 The season premiere of Big Brother aired on Monday night. And while the … Read more
Did you ever think you’d see the day when a Mini Metro, Fiat Panda or Vauxhall Astra would be classed as a classic car? However, under Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rules, any car that’s over 40 years old is deemed ‘classic’ and owners are exempt from having to tax them each year. And guess what … Read more