Metro Bank: Lender returned to profit over first half of 2025

Metro Bank has revealed it returned to a profit over the first half of 2025 as it ramped up its lending and after slashing costs across the group.

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00:00Hello, I'm Greg Wright of the Yorkshire Post.

00:03MetroBank has revealed it returned to a profit over the first half of 2025

00:07as it ramped up its lending and after slashing costs across the group.

00:13The lender reported a statutory pre-tax profit of £43.1 million

00:18the first six months of the year, up from £33.5 million loss

00:23reported within the same period a year ago.

00:26Metro said it doubled the amount of new lending to corporate and small business customers

00:30to record £1 billion over the period.

00:34My name is Greg Wright and I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.