Lloyds Banking Group appoints Martyn Atkinson as CIO, consumer relationships & mass affluent
Atkinson moves from merchant bank Close Brothers, where he was COO for four years.
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UK fintech funding round-up: Caura, Themis and Keyzy
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies in the UK.
ING CTO Ron van Kemenade to join Lloyds as COO next year
He will take up his new role at the UK bank in June 2023 subject to regulatory approval.
Women in financial services: Bhavna Saraf of Lloyds Banking Group
We chat with Lloyds’ Bhavna Saraf about her banking journey, current payments trends and more.
Moneyhub lands £40m investment from Legal & General, Lloyds and Shawbrook
Legal & General and Lloyds will both take minority stakes in the business.
Video: Lloyds Bank at Sibos 2022 – Tackling trade finance challenges
We speak with Lloyds Bank’s Merisa Lee Gimpel about the challenges facing trade finance.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 29 July 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Lloyds Banking Group to close 66 more bank branches
48 Lloyds Bank and 18 Halifax branches are set to shut between October and January of next year.
How to deliver effective transformation with fintechs
Banks are increasingly interested in partnering with B2B fintechs to enable quicker digital transformation.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 1 April 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Lloyds Banking Group to shutter 60 UK branches
Of the 60 closures, 24 are Lloyds Bank branches, 19 are Bank of Scotland and 17 are Halifax.
Lloyds partners fintech Bink to create unified customer loyalty programme solution
Lloyds has also made an equity investment for a minority stake in Bink.
Lloyds hires former HSBC man Boteju as new group chief data officer
Boteju says he is “super motivated” by his new employer’s message about building back.
TSB lines up Scottish Widows’ Prettlejohn for chairman role
TSB seeks a new chair as its Sabadell departure remains up in the air.
Thought Machine to hit unicorn status with £150m funding round
Core banking vendor expecting mammoth capital raise this month.
Video: fintech news pick of the week – Square, Lloyds and VNLIFE
Our top pick of news from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, twice a week.
Lloyds to acquire savings firm Embark Group in £390m deal
UK bank aims for “top three” position in the retirement and savings market.
Lloyds and Mastercard sign open banking payments partnership
The new platform, PayFrom Bank, utilises Mastercard’s Payment Gateway technology.
FCA levies £90m penalty against Lloyds Bank General Insurance for misleading comms
Insurer offered “competitive pricing” the FCA found to be false.
Lloyds announces 44 fresh branch closures, brings total up to 100
UK bank extends closure programme in response to customers moving online.
Lloyds hires former DBS Bank exec David Gledhill as new COO
Gledhill, who takes over in August, also spent 20 years with JP Morgan.
2020 review: 10 largest bank job cuts this year
This year has seen several job cut announcements.
Lloyds is world’s first bank live on Swift gpi instant
The payments network expects to roll out adoption across the globe.
Credit Suisse announces António Horta-Osório as new chairman
The outgoing Lloyds executive will join the Swiss bank in April.
Lloyds plans 1,040 job cuts to back office support staff
The figure brings Lloyds’s total cuts to 1,900 this year.
Lloyds commits to increase Black staff in senior roles
It employs 40 Black members of staff across its more than 7,000 strong senior exec team.
Lloyds signs customer experience deal with Google Cloud
UK bank to deploy Google cloud services to “improve customer experience.”
Lloyds, Virgin Money and Direct Line announce fresh job cuts
The three firms blame changing customer behaviour for the downsizing.
Lloyds Bank teams with Microsoft to speed up its digital transformation
The partnership is part of the bank’s £3 billion commitment to technology investments.
Open Banking Expo 2019: Innovation by regulation is a “flawed idea”
Panel believes that banks and partners can be trusted to innovate without deadlines.
Schroders Personal Wealth troubled by IT issues
The launch of the joint venture between Lloyds and Schroders have prompted widespread complaints from staff.
Trov partners with Lloyds and launches white-label insurtech platform
Later this year, Trov and Lloyds Banking Group will release an insurance product on the ‘Powered by Trov’.
Lloyds fights fraud with Callsign
The tech checks if the user is really who they claim to be.
Interview: Dan Makoski, Lloyds Banking Group – grand designs
“Design, like technology, is a strategic superpower that can be used to do incredibly bold things.”
Case study: the data that turned around banking giant Lloyds
How setting the right business KPIs can be the first step to turning around your business.
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Lloyds Banking Group launches voice ID for telephone banking
Nuance provides its voice authentication tech to Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.
Lloyds says Hello to Microsoft Windows 10 biometrics
Lloyds is working with Microsoft to test biometric authentication for customers logging into their Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland internet banking sites. The three organisations will use Windows Hello to get access to Windows 10 devices using a fingerprint or facial recognition. Devices will recognise the user, “rather than having to remember an assortment […]
Industry bodies look to harmonise ISO 20022 real-time payment implementation
Global interoperability of real-time payments systems will require harmonisation of market practices and standards. A group of international clearing houses, banks, vendors, payments associations and other parties have proposed setting up an activity to look at how to deliver this under the aegis of the International Standards Organisation – and set an ambitious target of collating an initial variant of ISO 20022 usage guidelines for real-time payments before the summer.
