Metropolitan Commercial Bank Recognized as a Member of Piper Sandler's Sm-All Stars Class of 2024

The Prestigious Award Highlights the Bank's Commitment to Excellence and Innovation

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. (the "Company") (NYSE:MCB), the holding company for Metropolitan Commercial Bank is pleased to announce its recognition as a member of Piper Sandler's Sm-All Stars Class of 2024. This year's class admits 8 new members and welcomes back 22 alumni. The list recognizes 30 companies that outperformed the industry across a variety of metrics including growth, profitability, credit and capital.

"Metropolitan Commercial Bank is thrilled to receive this industry recognition, which is a testament of the bank's commitment to financial excellence and unwavering dedication to our clients," said Mark R. DeFazio, Founder, President and CEO of Metropolitan Commercial Bank. "We are honored to be part of this distinguished group of financial institutions, reaffirming our steadfast commitment to leading the industry with innovative banking solutions of the highest standards."

To earn Sm-All Star status, companies needed to have a market cap below $2.5 billion and clear numerous hurdles related to growth, profitability, credit quality, and capital strength. Against industry medians, banks had to outperform EPS growth, loan growth, deposit growth, ROAE, and in addition were required to report an NPA ratio below 0.75% at 6/30/24, an NCO ratio over the last twelve months of less than 25 bps, and a TCE ratio at or above 7.0% at 6/30/24. For more information on the rankings, click here.

About Metropolitan Commercial Bank

Metropolitan Commercial Bank (the "Bank") is a full-service commercial bank based in New York City. The Bank provides a broad range of business, commercial, and personal banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, private and public middle-market and corporate enterprises and institutions, municipalities, and local government entities.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank's EB-5 / E-2 International Group delivers banking services and products for United States Citizen and Immigration Services EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program investors, developers, Regional Centers, government agencies, law firms and consulting companies specializing in EB-5 and E-2.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank was named one of Newsweek's Best Regional Banks and Credit Unions 2024. The Bank was ranked by Independent Community Bankers of America among the top ten successful loan producers for 2023 by loan category and asset size for commercial banks with more than $1 billion in assets. Kroll affirmed a BBB+ (investment grade) deposit rating on January 25, 2024.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank operates banking centers and private client offices in Manhattan and Boro Park, Brooklyn in New York City and Great Neck on Long Island in New York State.

The Bank is a New York State chartered commercial bank, a member of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and an equal housing lender. The parent company of Metropolitan Commercial Bank is Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. (NYSE:MCB).

For more information, please visit the Bank's website at MCBankNY.com.

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