Lloyds to bank £1.5bn if TSB sale to Banco Sabadell goes ahead March 12, 2015 Lloyds is set to receive a final total of £1.5bn for TSB if the Banco Sabadell sale goes ahead – twice the £750m for which it had previously agreed to sell the lender to the Co-op Bank. The giant bank was forced to sell off TSB under the terms of its 2008 bailout. The [...]
TSB share price leaps 27 per cent as Lloyds backs £1.7bn takeover talks with Spanish bank Sabadell March 12, 2015 Lloyds appeared to give its blessing to an offer by Spanish Banco de Sabadell for challenger bank TSB this morning, in which it has a 50 per cent stake. TSB said it had been offered 340p in cash per share, about a 30 per cent premium on last night's closing price, valuing the lender at [...]
TSB boss Paul Pester: We are the UK’s only real challenger bank February 25, 2015 Only TSB “has the teeth” to take on the big banks, the lender’s chief executive claimed yesterday, arguing that it alone has the size and scope to make a difference in the market. Dozens of new banks have received licences or are going through the application process, but TSB’s Paul Pester said they will take more [...]
HSBC spoils TSB results party with appearance before MPs – but they don’t mind February 25, 2015 It can be nerve-wracking hosting a party for the first time – what if nobody comes? Have I bought enough food? Will it clash with a more glitzy event in the social calendar? The same applies in the City, too. Yesterday was a big day for TSB, presenting its first set of full-year financial results [...]
TSB share price edges up as profits double February 25, 2015 The figures TSB shares opened 1.5 per cent higher this morning, after it reported statutory profit before tax of £170m in 2014, over 100 per cent up on the previous year. The group is strongly capitalised with a Common Equity Tier one capital ratio of 19.7 per cent. TSB landed 500,000 new bank accounts over [...]
German tech firm Aixtron is Europe’s most shorted stock pre-results February 23, 2015 German tech firm Aixtron came top of the pile as Markit, the financial information firm, yesterday released its review of the most short-sold European companies due to announce results in the coming week. Aixtron, a perennial target for short sellers, saw its shares out on loan rise by 19 per cent in the last month [...]
TSB chief Paul Pester: Seven day bank account switching service fails too many people February 11, 2015 The bank account switching service does not help customers who rely on overdrafts, TSB Bank chief Paul Pester complained yesterday. It is harder for those customers to move, letting the big banks keep hold of them – and their juicy fees – with little competition, he claimed. “Those customers who could benefit most from switching [...]
TSB share price rises on third-quarter profits jump October 24, 2014 Shares in TSB jumped 3.2 per cent this morning, after it published figures showing profits had soared 28.8 per cent to £33.1m in the three months to 30 September as it picked up nearly one in 10 new current accounts in the UK. Franchise banking net interest margin remained stable at 3.61 per cent, while [...]
TSB gaining market share with strong current account switches July 31, 2014 Relaunched high street bank TSB yesterday reported pre-tax profits of £128.5m in the first half of the year. In its first set of results since floating on the stock market, the bank pleased investors with a strong flow of new customers. TSB accounted for 9.2 per cent of all new current accounts in the period, [...]
TSB could be planning to buy the mortgage portfolio of taxpayer-owned “bad bank” July 19, 2014 TSB has expressed an interest in buying the mortgage portfolio from Britain’s so-called bad bank, made up of the remains of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, for £1.4bn according to Sky News. A TSB spokesperson said the bank “did not comment on rumour and speculation” but the boss of the newly-listed bank Paul Pester [...]