# Metro Bank Down

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791>\
**Category:** Financial Chat\
**Created:** [29 March 2019 14:22 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791 "2019-03-29T14:22:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anon72173902](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@anon72173902](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon72173902)\
**Post date:** [29 March 2019 14:22 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791/1 "2019-03-29T14:22:29Z")

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> **[Metro Bank enjoys an early Friday tipple and topples over](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/29/metro_bank_down/)**
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> Mobile app down, website 'may be working slowly or unavailable'

_Also_

By 12pm the bank’s Twitter orifice admitted that the wannabe financial heavyweight (which currently has **1,620,000** accounts on its books, according to its [2018 (PDF) report](https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/globalassets/documents/investor_documents/trading-announcement-fy-2018.pdf))

Meaning Monzo would now be beating Metro in terms of customers

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**Author:** ![j06](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/j06/32/97044_2.png) [@j06](https://community.monzo.com/u/j06)\
**Post date:** [29 March 2019 14:41 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791/2 "2019-03-29T14:41:37Z")

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Maybe because all of Metro’s staff are out doing a charity walk in London?

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**Author:** ![lumisota](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lumisota/32/3217_2.png) [@lumisota](https://community.monzo.com/u/lumisota)\
**Post date:** [29 March 2019 14:58 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791/3 "2019-03-29T14:58:00Z")

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> [@anon72173902](#):
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> Meaning Monzo would now be beating Metro in terms of customers

Not necessarily. The 1,620,000 figure is as at the end of December 2018, which exceeded Monzo’s 1,322,000 at the time.

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**Author:** ![rarther](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/rarther/32/11565_2.png) [@rarther](https://community.monzo.com/u/rarther)\
**Post date:** [29 March 2019 15:44 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/metro-bank-down/63791/4 "2019-03-29T15:44:00Z")

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From the way they word their press releases Metro’s numbers appear to include every current, savings, mortgage, credit card, joint and business account as one those 1.6m “accounts”.

If they were really counting users then they would say “we now have 1.6m FANS”, which is how they refer to customers, rather than “we now have 1.6m accounts”.

Therefore they probably only have about 500k users\*

\*number plucked from thin air for fun