Lloyds freezes 8,000 offshore bank accounts June 24, 2019 Lloyds Banking Group has frozen about 8,000 bank accounts registered offshore after asking the customers for three years to prove their identities. The banking giant, which has its international business in Jersey, was forced to take action in order to meet regulatory requirements. Read more: Deutsche Bank faces US money laundering investigation The move to [...]
TSB turns down ‘£1bn merger approach’ from Co-Operative Bank October 24, 2021 Co-operative Bank’s £1bn-plus offer for TSB has been rebuffed by its Spanish owners. Sabadell’s board decided to reject the offer at the end of September. The deal would have created a high street lender with 340 branches and over eight million customers, according to Sky News, which first reported the acquisition attempt. This would encompass [...]
Small companies slam plans for big Making Tax Digital extension July 21, 2020 Small businesses have slammed the government’s planned expansion of the Making Tax Digital programme, saying it means more cost and paperwork for companies at a time when they are under great pressure. The government today said it will extend its tax digitisation programme to 4.7m of the UK’s smallest companies and self-employed workers from April [...]
Lloyds Banking Group could face £150m pensions hit after court ruling October 26, 2018 Lloyds Banking Group could have to pay out up to £150m after the High Court ruled today that it should equalise payments for male and female members of its pension scheme. Three female members of the pension scheme had complained they were being discriminated against as their pensions increased at a lower rate than that [...]
NatWest books £300m in legal fees to deal with money laundering fallout October 29, 2021 NatWest has set aside nearly £300m in legal fees to deal with the fallout of admitting it allowed money laundering to take place in the bank. The bank announced in its third quarter results that it booked a £294m litigation and conduct charge during the period. NatWest recently became the first British bank to admit [...]
Lloyds staff complain their offices are not clean enough amid covid-19 crisis April 7, 2020 Lloyds Banking Group staff have reportedly complained their bank branches are not clean enough as the banking industry struggles with a rush of businesses looking for funding amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Telegraph cited a survey by trade union BTU which found 56 per cent of Lloyds staff not working from home thought their office [...]
Barclays and Santander to cut chief executive pension perks November 28, 2019 Barclays, Santander and Lloyds Banking Group have all slashed pension allowances for their bosses after an outcry from MPs and investors. Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is set to receive a cash lump sum of £396,000 instead of a pension this year, which is equivalent to 34 per cent of his salary. From next year, [...]
Sainsbury’s and M&S walk into shareholder storm over minimum living wage versus bumper bonuses July 1, 2022 Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s will be put under pressure next week to pay all staff and contracted workers the national living wage, as activists mobilise in the first shareholder resolution of its kind. Responsible investment campaign group ShareAction is driving the experimental motion at the supermarket giant’s annual general meeting on Thursday 7 July. Legal & [...]
NatWest notches up £2.5bn in ‘resilient’ first half, as lending rises July 30, 2021 NatWest roped in some 2.5bn in operating profit before tax in the past six months, swinging from a loss of £770m in the first half of 2020. The British bank’s net lending rose by £2.2bn to £362.7bn in the six months to 30 June, while UK and RBSI retail and commercial businesses pushed lending to [...]
HSBC’s £36bn pension scheme pledges to be net zero by 2050 at the latest October 8, 2021 HSBC’s pension scheme, one of the largest corporate pension schemes in the UK, has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. In the run up to COP26, an increasing number of activists have zeroed in on fossil-fuel investing pension funds and wider financial institutions like HSBC and Lloyds for carbon-heavy investments. [...]