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The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company [a] (Hokkien Chinese: 首都銀行; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siú-to͘ Gûn-hâng), trading as Metrobank, is a Filipino bank that as of 2022, was the third largest bank in the Philippines in terms of total assets. [4] [5] It offers various financial services, from regular banking to insurance.
In 2008, a whistleblower went to ASIC to report a coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for a former financial planner. [8]Michelle Grattan characterised the then-incoming Abbott Liberal-National government as being "determined to weaken protections" that Labor had introduced, although she noted these attempts were defeated by the Senate crossbench.
Vernon W. Hill II (born August 18, 1945) is an American businessman, the founder and former chairman of Metro Bank, a UK retail bank with 77 stores, [1] and assets of £7.4b ($10.6b). He was also the founder, former chairman, president and CEO of Commerce Bancorp of Cherry Hill, New Jersey , and chairman of pet insurance firm Fetch Inc.
Troika laundromat or ŪkioLeaks [1] is a money laundering scheme organized by Russia's former largest investment bank – Troika Dialog.This scheme allowed the flow of some $4.8 billion of funds from Russian companies and figures into Europe and the US between 2003 and early 2013.
Metro Bank acquired SME Finance in August 2013, and rebranded the business as Metro Bank SME Finance in May 2014. [22] It was announced in August 2020 that Metro Bank had agreed to acquire Retail Money Market Ltd, a London-based provider of peer-to-peer loans trading as RateSetter. The price would be between £2.5 million and £12 million ...
On July 19, 2019, the PNP–Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed charges against Diokno and other opposition members for "sedition, cyber libel, libel, estafa, harboring a criminal, and obstruction of justice." These charges were related to the "Bikoy" videos. [28] [29] On February 10, 2020, he was cleared of all charges. [30]
The Bangladesh Bank continued its efforts to retrieve the stolen money and had only recovered about US$15 million, mostly from a gaming junket operator based in Metro Manila. In February 2019, the Federal Reserve pledged it would help Bangladesh Bank recover the money and SWIFT has also decided to help the central bank rebuild its infrastructure.
The scandal generated broad interest worldwide shortly after The Guardian reported in July 2011 that murdered teenager Milly Dower's phone had been hacked into by agents of News of the World [225] and after Rupert Murdoch announced that the 168-year-old newspaper would be closed as a consequence. [226]