Jun.02, 2010, 5:23PM ET

The owner of Metro Bank is laying off employees.

Metro Bancorp Inc. spokesman Jason Kirsch said Wednesday that the bank is eliminating 14 back office jobs at its headquarters operations center in suburban Harrisburg.

He says the job cuts are necessary to ensure the bank is operating efficiently. The company employs about 1,000.

Metro Bank has about 30 locations in southcentral Pennsylvania.

The bank agreed in late April to settle regulators' concerns over "unsafe or unsound banking processes."

It has promised to analyze whether compensation for directors and senior executive officers is appropriate and to develop a system to comply with laws designed to combat money laundering.