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On 17 September 2008, the BBC reported that HBOS was in takeover talks with Lloyds TSB, in response to a precipitous drop in HBOS's share price. [23] The talks concluded successfully that evening with a proposal to create a banking giant which would hold a third of UK mortgages. [24] An announcement was made on 18 September 2008. [25] [26]
In October 2011, Lloyds TSB's credit rating was reduced by Moody's from Aa3 to A1. [35] The action was taken in the light of a shift in government policy to move risk from taxpayers to creditors by reducing the level of support offered to financial institutions. Lloyds TSB was the first Official Partner for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. [36]
Lloyds Banking Group announced that 25% of TSB's shares would be floated on 24 June 2014, [21] but, with the offer being ten-times oversubscribed, 38.5% of shares in TSB Banking Group, were sold at 260p on 20 June. [22]
The share price of Lloyds Banking Group plunged 32% on the London Stock Exchange, carrying other bank shares with it. [ 30 ] In September 2012, Peter Cummings, the head of HBOS corporate banking from 2006 to 2008, was fined £500,000 by the UK financial regulator over his role in the bank's collapse.
Lloyds Bank * 1765 Lloyds Bank was established in Birmingham in 1765. It merged with the former Trustee Savings Bank (1810) in 1995 to form Lloyds TSB. It acquired Bank of Scotland (1695) and was 43% nationalised after reckless investments in 2008. TSB Bank was divested in 2014 and acquired by Banco Sabadell in 2015. Royal & Sun Alliance * 1845
Lloyds TSB, the name used by Lloyds Bank in the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2013; TSB Bank (United Kingdom), a bank that split from Lloyds Bank in 2013 and divested through a stock market flotation; In other countries: Permanent TSB, formerly Irish Life and Permanent and originally Trustee Savings Bank in the Republic of Ireland
Hill Samuel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group's Offshore Private Banking unit. It was formerly a leading British merchant bank and financial services firm before the takeover by TSB Group Plc. in 1987, which itself merged with Lloyds Bank to become Lloyds TSB in 1995.
The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie" / ˈ f ʊ t s i /, is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange.