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Wake Up To Money

Boardroom Stories: Craig Donaldson

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Why banks need more branches and "it was a miserable place to be”: Life at RBS during the bailout.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Traitors is back and so is that mysterious cloaked figure with the familiar fringe.

0:06.7

Yeah, it's me.

0:07.9

And when you've watched Claudia in the castle, join me, Ed Gamble, for the official visualised companion podcast.

0:13.7

And remember, I'll be listening.

0:15.9

Okay?

0:16.7

No, seriously, I love it.

0:18.5

What a faithful.

0:19.7

We'll unpack betrayals and spill scandalous secrets

0:22.3

with celeb guests, traitors legends and murdered and banished players. The traitors uncloked.

0:28.4

Watch on EyePlayer, listen for more on BBC Sounds.

0:32.2

Wake up to Money, Bordroom Stories with Louise Cooper.

0:36.4

Hello and welcome to the next Bordrum Stories podcast.

0:41.3

In this series, we're sitting down for a chat with the bosses of some of Britain's best-known companies.

0:47.4

We're not concentrating on the big hitters of the Futsi 100.

0:51.4

Instead, we're looking at the companies who follow on from those 100 big firms, otherwise known as the Futsi 100. Instead, we're looking at the companies who follow on from those 100 big firms,

0:56.4

otherwise known as the Futsi 250. And today it's the turn of Craig Donaldson, former RBS banker,

1:04.2

and now boss and founder of Metro Bank. Can you just talk to us a little bit about Metro Bank, its growth, what its aim, to sort of start off gently great.

1:15.6

So nine years ago, there was four of us. We came together, we went and raised some money,

1:20.6

Vernon Hill, the chairman, myself and others. And we applied for a banking licence. We were the first new de de novo new bank on the high street in over 100 years

1:29.3

We opened our first store and we start to serve people look after them

1:34.3

We've got better technology in better locations with great people who were there to create fans and that's what we do

1:41.3

I looked at your annual report and it did make me laugh

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