Shares in Metro Bank rose by more then 4% today after it was handed £120 million of funding from Royal Bank of Scotland. The challenger bank's stock value plummeted by 46% – as much as £1 billion – last month after it admitted an accounting error in the way risky loans were calculated had cost it £300 million. Read More Related Articles The funding today comes via BCR, the independent body charged with dispersing state-owned RBS cash to increase competition from small players.