{"id":1117467,"date":"2026-07-29T05:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1117467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:23:16","slug":"too-hot-to-handle-metro-bank-insulates-customers-from-uk-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1117467\/","title":{"rendered":"Too hot to handle: Metro Bank insulates customers from UK heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Bank is taking novel steps to keep customers safe as the UK experiences surging temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the Cheapside branch of the retail bank in London have covered the edges of its large metal door handles, which feature the bank\u2019s \u201cM\u201d logo, with foam to protect customers from the heat during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/content\/4df39666-1f87-42e5-956f-6722aba9ca4b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the scorching weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to continue reading The Banker?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-hYJVTC icjxQT\">Benefit from expert analysis, exclusive data and rankings, clear insight into innovation, regulation and strategy, and the context you need to stay ahead of critical developments in global finance.<\/ul>\n<p><a data-trackable=\"register-or-subscribe-barrier-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Subscribe?cdt=register-or-subscribe-barrier\" class=\"sc-dDzAqx QaLsF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View your subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metro Bank is taking novel steps to keep customers safe as the UK experiences surging temperatures. Staff at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1117468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,89697,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1117467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-climate-risk","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117001598165129415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}