Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group has completed its £1.75bn share buyback programme, purchasing 1,712,662,647 ordinary shares ahead of the year-end 2026 deadline originally set out when the programme was announced. The buyback was managed by Goldman Sachs International between 30 January 2026 and 24 Septem

UK Banks have completed their first live transaction with customers using tokenised Sterling deposits, marking a major milestone for payments innovation in the UK. Tokenised deposits are digital representations of traditional commercial bank money. UK Finance, the trade association for the financial

Lloyds Banking Group has appointed Kelly Bennett as an independent non-executive director to its boards. Mr Bennett served as a chief marketing officer with Netflix from 2012 until 2019. He previously held senior positions within Warner Bros Entertainment, including vice president, interactive, worl

Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds is collaborating with Stripe to deliver the latest payments technology to small businesses. Stripe’s global payments infrastructure is now integrated into Lloyds’ Business Account through a new suite of tools called Lloyds Accept.

Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds Banking Group is considering phasing out Halifax.

Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds Banking Group has launched Envoy, a new internal platform that provides a secure and governed way to build and run AI agents across the organisation. Envoy supports the group’s ambition to scale agentic AI responsibly, helping colleagues work more efficiently whil

Lloyds Banking Group has posted a 33% rise in statutory profit before tax to £2.0 billion, for the first quarter of 2026, but has shared concerns over the economic impact of the Middle East conflict. The Bank of Scotland-owner's Q1 growth was underpinned by an 8% rise in underlying net interes

Lloyds Banking Group has become what is believed to be the first FTSE 100 company to deploy a specialist artificial intelligence "board bot" in its boardroom, as the 260-year-old bank accelerates its transformation into what it describes as "the UK's biggest fintech".

Lloyds Banking Group has completed the first-known experiment into how quantum computing could help to identify money mules, marking a major step in building the skills and technology needed to tackle economic crime in the future. Lloyds Banking Group conducted an experiment that focused on money mu

Business confidence in Scotland rose 10 points during March to 51%, according to the latest Business Barometer from the Bank of Scotland. Companies in Scotland reported higher confidence in their own trading outlook month-on-month, up 22 points at 63%. When taken alongside their optimism in the econ

Customers of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland were left alarmed after a technical fault caused their mobile banking apps to display the transactions of complete strangers.

Lloyds has appointed Trusha Pillay as a new managing director in its Infrastructure and Project Finance team. Ms Pillay will focus on expanding Lloyds’ debt advisory and debt structuring business while supporting the bank’s clients across core and emerging infrastructure and power-relate

Edinburgh-based renewable energy company, Red Rock Renewables, has reached financial close on a £62m financing with Lloyds, HSBC and China Construction Bank for its Benbrack Onshore Wind Farm. The three lenders have provided equal project financing as the Dumfries & Galloway Project takes

Edinburgh office development, Port Hamilton, is set to undergo a major transformation into a cutting-edge workplace, supported by a £135 million funding package from HSBC UK. Occupied by Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds Banking Group, the building will be refurbished to the highest sustainability

Ashfield Land has acquired Lloyds Banking Group’s call centre building at Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline, with plans to invest in and redevelop the site into a high-quality industrial/logistics development.