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UK's Metro Bank up for Sale After Turnaround Pays Off
The board says a sale could maximise shareholder value after Metro Bank reported its most profitable half-year and completed a three-year turnaround.
- Metro Bank has launched a strategic review including a potential sale as The FTSE lender seeks to 'build on its strategic delivery to accelerate growth' following recent turnaround efforts.
- The sale process concludes a three-year turnaround programme where Metro Bank pivoted from mainstream lending to focus on an 'underserved market,' reporting pre-tax profits surging 41% to £61 million.
- Its share price has gained nearly 50 per cent this year, while the company holds a market cap of over £1 billion after staging a partial recovery since a 2023 emergency cash call.
- While Metro Bank said it 'is not in any active discussions' with potential buyers, private equity firm Pollen Street Capital may show renewed interest after previously approaching the lender.
- Much depends on major shareholder Jaime Gilinski Bacal's willingness to exit; The Colombian billionaire holds a stake exceeding 50 per cent following the £325 million 2023 rescue deal.
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Metro Bank puts itself up for sale after turnaround
Metro Bank has put itself up for sale as the high street lender explores potential takeover offers following a turnaround of the business in recent years. The London-listed bank announced on Thursday that it had launched a formal sale process as part of a wider strategic review aimed at accelerating growth and maximising returns for [...]
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Metro Bank will carry out an assessment of the potential interest in the UK bank through a formal process of formal sale within the framework of the strategic review of options to boost the growth of the entity being carried out by its board of directors.
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