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Metro Bank Pulls Back On Commercial Lending

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challenger bank Metro Bank, the financial institution is reportedly looking to reduce its corporate loan exposure and wind down commercial lending operations. Metro will look to instead focus on residential property financing as it seeks a new chairman. Following a series of setbacks for U.K. The Times on Sunday (Sept.

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Metro Bank shares plummet as bank prepares fundraising drive

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Stock falls by 25% in early trading as high street lender seeks to raise £350m to shore up its balance sheet Metro Bank shares have plunged after news that the high street lender is seeking to raise hundreds of millions of pounds to shore up its balance sheet. Shares were down by 25%. Continue reading.

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Metro Bank Links With ezbob For Same-Day SMB Loans

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To provide a digital lending offering for small business clients, Metro Bank has collaborated with banking software provider ezbob. Metro Bank Chief Commercial Officer Paul Riseborough said, according to reports, “We know quick, reliable access to finance is crucial for small businesses to seize opportunities to grow.

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New York Dept. of Financial Services announces fair lending agreement with nonbank mortgage lender and releases redlining report

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The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Hunt Mortgage , a licensed mortgage banker, to address the DFS’s findings that there was a “demonstrable lack of lending to minorities and in majority-minority neighborhoods in Western and Central New York by Hunt Mortgage.”

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How The Lending Landscape Is Quietly Changing

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Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held the federal funds rate at zero in the hopes of stimulating lending in an environment where credit went from dangerously free-flowing to dangerously non-existent in the span of a few months. People are buying houses such that there is now a supply shortage in the market. economy.

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DOJ announces settlement of redlining lawsuit

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The key allegations in the DOJ’s complaint are the following: During the relevant time period (2015-2021), the Newark, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metro Division (Newark MD) as delineated in 2015 included Essex, Somerset, Union, Sussex, and Morris counties in New Jersey (Newark Lending Area). unlikely to be caused by chance) and sizeable.

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CYBG Snubbed For RBS Funds

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.’s Banking Competition Remedies has awarded the first batches of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s $1 billion fund to competing banks in an effort to boost competition in the market, particularly for small to medium-sized business (SMB) services. Metro scored the largest portion of the funds, being awarded nearly $156.8

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