Lloyds Banking Group

381 results about this entity

Period: 21 Aug 2009 - 15 Apr 2024

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Lloyds Bank names Linda Weston head, commercial cards

Lloyds Bank Appoints New Head, Linda Weston, as Head of Commercial Cards. Starting in June, Linda will be based in London and report into Chris Loring, Managing Director, Lending & Working Capital.

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Lloyds completes first electronic Bill of Landing transaction

Lloyds Bank has completed its first transaction using an electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) on the WaveBL trade documentation platform, in a cross-border deal that featured entirely digital exchanges of documentation.

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Lloyds warns against fraudsters on Booking.com and Airbnb

With summer holidays on the horizon, Lloyds Bank is cautioning customers against scams as they book their vacations.

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Lloyds Bank cuts risk dept headcount

UK high street bank Lloyds Bank is reducing the size of its risk management department because it is seen as a “blocker” to the bank’s “strategic transformation”.

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2023 Working Capital Needs Of Growth Corporate CFOs & Treasurers In Europe

In this episode of FinextraTV, Clive Cornelius, Head of T&E and Procurement Commercial Products at Visa, & James Sykes, Head of Commercial Cards and Invoice Finance Products at Lloyds Bank, discuss Visa’s recently published Growth Corporates Working Capital Index Report. We learn about the state of play across the European Growth Corporates landscape, the biggest challenges that Growth Corporates in the UK & Europe are facing today, and how CFOs are deploying solutions and investing in growth to counteract these challenges.

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Lloyds bank invests £3m in proptech startup

Lloyds Banking Group has invested £3 million in Coadjute, an innovative fintech designed to connect all parties involved in the homeownership journey.

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Lloyds teams with fintech startup ApTap to help people manage household bills

Lloyds Bank is to make managing household bills easier for mortgage customers through a partnership with ApTap, a fintech startup graduate of the bank's 'Launch' innovation programme.

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Lloyds Banking Group signs 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with Low Carbon

Lloyds Banking Group has signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with global renewable energy company, Low Carbon.

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Lloyds joins association to standardise digital property data

Lloyds Banking Group has joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), backing efforts to bring a standardised approach to sharing digital data in the home buying process.

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Lloyds forms trade digitalisation partnership with WaveBL

Lloyds has become the first UK bank to join the WaveBL electronic trade documentation platform, meaning its clients can transfer blockchain-based Bills of Lading across a network of members in 136 countries.

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Romance scams rose by a fifth in 2023

The number of people falling victim to romance scams increased by a fifth (22%) in 2023, compared to 2022, according to the latest data from Lloyds Bank.

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Lloyds to measure carbon impact of IT stack with Dynatrace

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced that it is working with Lloyds Banking Group, one of the UK’s largest financial services providers, to measure the environmental carbon impact of its IT ecosystem, contributing to the organization’s sustainability goals.

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Lloyds closes mobile bank branch service

With customers carrying out more banking through their phones, Lloyds is shutting down a different kind of mobile service, the vans that drive to towns across the UK offering an alternative to branches.

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Lloyds cuts branch jobs as customers go digital

Lloyds Banking Group is cutting around 1600 jobs in its branch network, although the bank is also creating more than 800 roles in an expanded "relationship growth" team as it retools for a digital-first future.

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Wise accuses high street banks of hidden exchange rate fees

For GBP to EUR, Wise reports that HSBC has the highest fee for exchange rates (3.7%), followed by Lloyds at 3.6%, Barclays at 2.75%, and NatWest, TSB and Santander all at 2.5%.

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Starling's chief banking officer Helen Bierton departs for Lloyds

Starling Bank's chief banking officer Helen Bierton has left for a new position as director of 'Everyday Banking' at Lloyds Banking Group.

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Lloyds to close more branches

Lloyds Banking Group has earmarked another 45 branches for closure in 2024, citing the migration to digital channels.

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Lloyds connects customers to capital markets in co-branded deal with PrimaryBid

Lloyds Banking Group is deploying technology from PrimaryBid to provide retail investors with access to public company capital raises in both equity and debt.

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Lloyds Bank launches in-app passport scanning for customer onboarding

Lloyds Bank customers are the first in the UK to be able to support their bank account application using the chip in their passport.

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Lloyds warns over surge in crypto scams

Revolut is the most common recipient of Faster Payments made by crypto investment scam victims at Lloyds Banking Group, which is reporting a surge in get-rich-quick adverts on social media.