10 Reasons I’m Not Getting Too Excited By Metro Bank
I really want to like Metro Bank, I do. But despite all of the hype around the launch, there are a few things I don’t like about the new bank.
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Recent Links
Below are some of our bookmarks to interesting sites and articles that we've seen recently. You can keep track of these links on our Delicious account.
- The end of BBC's Working Lunch - The last show, following 16 years of informing daytime viewers of crucial business and money matters, will be broadcast at 12.30pm.
- Reminder to Wesabe users – download your data before Saturday! - As announced a few weeks ago, Wesabe will be closing it’s online banking dashboard as of Saturday 31st July 2010.
- New High Street bank opens doors - The first High Street bank to launch in the UK for more than 100 years is opening its doors for the first time.
- Fake £1 coins rising in circulation, figures show - Nearly two million counterfeit £1 coins were returned to the Royal Mint in the last financial year, figures show.
- Seven EU banks fail stress tests - Seven of the 91 European banks that underwent stress tests have failed the healthchecks, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has said.
- BBC iPhone apps approved in the UK - The BBC Trust has just given the green light to the free, UK release of its iPhone apps. First to hit the App Store will be the BBC News app, this afternoon.
- UK economic growth jumps to 1.1% - The UK economy grew by a faster-than-expected 1.1% in the second quarter of the year, according to official data.
- A meme begins as BP admits to more Photoshop fakery - After yesterday’s BP Photoshop shame story, the company has been forced to admit to a further two doctored images of its oil spill cleanup operation.
- Least trusted financial companies revealed - Nationwide has been voted the UK's 'most trusted' financial services company, followed by the Co-operative Bank and Barclays. At the other end of the scale Northern Rock and Admiral came out bottom of the survey.
- Bank of Ireland refunds 'forgotten' ATM cash - More than 43,000 bank customers in the Republic and Northern Ireland are being refunded after failing to take their cash from Bank of Ireland (BoI) ATMs.
- The rise and fall of social networks - Facebook has announced that it now has 500m active users, just six years after it was first launched. The site has become the poster child of social networking on the web. However, other networks have not fared so well.
- PayPal Now Adding One Million New Accounts Per Month - eBay Inc. has released its second quarter fiscal results, posting gains largely because of PayPal’s accelerating growth.
- BP Admits Photoshopping Oil Spill Photo - Now that BP has plugged its disastrous oil spill you might think its PR woes were over. Not so, it has had to admit that an image of its Oil Spill command center was Photoshopped.
- Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India - Britons targeted by cold callers pretending to be from Microsoft phoning to fix a fake computer problem.
- How to Test Drive Android on Your PC Without Buying a Phone - Here's how to run Android on your PC for free with the Android SDK Emulator.
