(Reuters) – British lender Metro Bank said on Monday it was in talks about a potential disposal of residential mortgage loans worth billions of pounds.

The size of the portfolio, which is yet to be finalised, could be closer to 4 billion pounds ($5.13 billion) than 3 billion pounds, Sky News said, which first reported on the development.

($1 = 0.7803 pounds)

(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar and Aatrayee Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Shounak Dasgupta)