Search Results for: Lloyds Bank
UK’s biggest banks face further $29 billion misconduct bill: S&P
April 27th, 2015
Britain’s biggest banks face another 19 billion pounds ($29 billion) of charges relating to past misconduct over the next two years, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said in a report on Monday. S&P said Britain’s banks and customer-owned ...
Taxpayers benefit from Lloyds dividend
March 2nd, 2015
Lloyds Banking Group has paid its first dividend to shareholders since it was bailed out in 2008, a total of £535 million. In what Chancellor George Osborne has called a ‘major milestone’ for the British economy, the Treasury’s 23.9% ...
Bank of England turns up the heat on accounting firms
March 2nd, 2015
The Bank of England would have the power to fine or ban accounting firms from working in financial services under proposals setting out how the UK central bank’s regulation arm will monitor the accounting industry. The proposals from the ...
Bank of England disarray in the face of financial crisis
January 7th, 2015
The full extent of the Bank of England’s emergency action to prevent the collapse of the banking system is revealed on Wednesday as it releases previously secret documents detailing its frantic day to day efforts to prop up high ...
RBS and Lloyds scrape through BoE stress tests as Co-op fails
December 16th, 2014
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group scraped through the Bank of England’s stress tests with only Co-op of the eight institutions under scrutiny failing to meet the capital requirements. Although RBS and Lloyds were deemed ‘susceptible ...
UK banks face break-up threat as competition probe launched
November 6th, 2014
Britain’s big banks could be broken up after the country’s competition watchdog launched a full-blown investigation into services for small business customers and personal accounts because of a lack of competition. It marks the latest step by authorities to break the dominance of ...
British Banks May Face Probe of Checking Accounts, Loans
November 5th, 2014
U.K. antitrust regulators said they may open an investigation into checking accounts and banking services for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority will issue a decision on starting a full probe into banking for small firms ...
Twenty-four European banks fail financial stress tests
October 27th, 2014
One in five European banks have failed crucial tests of their financial strength, leaving a €25bn (£19.6bn) capital hole in the continent’s banking system at a time of renewed fears that the five-year long eurozone crisis may be flaring ...
Lloyd’s sells €1.1bn of bad bank to Lone Star
October 16th, 2014
Lloyds has jettisoned €1.1bn (£883m) of bad bank. Lloyds Banking Group, which is partly owned by the UK government, has sold its Irish residential home loans to Lone Star, a US private equity group. Lloyds’s Irish operation was heavily ...
UK banks pay out $2.5 billion for swaps mis-selling
October 14th, 2014
Britain’s biggest banks have paid out less than 40 percent of the 4 billion pounds ($6.4 billion) set aside to cover the mis-selling of complex interest rate hedging products, according to data from the financial regulator. The mis-selling is ...
