Readers of the Evening Standard are being given the chance to play a historic role in the greatest show on earth - by carrying the 2012 Olympic torch, courtesy of Lloyds TSB... more
Lloyds TSB personal banker allegedly took more than £200,000 from a customer’s account and funnelled it to 'hot' blonde who walked into branch wearing shorts and skimpy top... more
The weak pound has improved businesses' trading forecasts and made them far more confident about the economy than at the end of last year, a poll claims... more
Analysis: The row between Lloyds Banking Group and the Treasury over how much the bank must pay to insure some £250 billion of toxic debts certainly put the City on edge. But equally concerning was the detail behind the losses... more
Banking: The interest rate at which banks lend to each other has edged higher for the first time since the Government bailed out the British banking system more than three months ago... more
House prices continued falling last month, piling on the gloom for the big UK builders. The value of the average home fell 1.9% to £161,883, stretching the annual rate of loss to 12.2%... more
Lloyds TSB added to the woes of the banking sector as it said the switch from annual to monthly premiums on its payment protection insurance will cost it £300 million... more
Lloyds TSB has been accused of arrogance after telling staff they will get bonuses this year despite the government crackdown on rewards at banks receiving taxpayers' money... more
The head of Lloyds TSB has told staff they will get their bonuses this year despite Gordon Brown's promise to crack down on vast rewards at bailed-out banks... more
Plans for the full-blown nationalisation of Halifax Bank of Scotland have been drafted by the Treasury amid fears that its merger with Lloyds TSB is in danger of falling apart... more
Banking: Shares in Halifax owner HBOS crashed by a quarter after it issued a thumping profits warning and Lloyds TSB slashed its £12 billion takeover bid in half... more
Fund managers and banking analysts react with dismay to the Treasury’s plans to control how much banks pay out in dividends if they take up any of the Government’s £50 billion recapitalisation offer... more
Markets deliver a lot of confused signals these days, but one with increasing clarity is that it does not like the terms of the deal under which Lloyds TSB agreed to buy HBOS... more
Legal Analysis: If there is one group of people that has done well out of the Lehman-to-Lloyds TSB-HBOS rollercoaster then it has to be the lawyers. Not all of them are benefiting, of course... more
Banking: Rival banks are set to demand that the new giant Lloyds TSB-HBOS group sells off parts of its empire once the dust settles from the current financial crisis... more
The worse than expected fall in profits at Lloyds TSB and heavy bad debt charge is further evidence of the scale of damage done by the credit crunch to high-street lenders... more
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