well i hope i have not made a mistake have bought for 1p and will sell

Difficult to buy anything. IS anyone else facing the same problem?

StockMarketWire.com
Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY) has announced that George Culmer will be appointed as Group Finance Director with effect from 16 May 2012.

George Culmer has been Chief Financial Officer of RSA since May 2004.

Commenting on Mr Culmer's appointment, Sir Winfried Bischoff, Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, said: "Following the announcement on 19 September 2011 of the departure of Tim Tookey as Group Finance Director at the end of February 2012, the Board undertook a rigorous search for his successor. We are pleased to have been able to attract someone of the quality of George Culmer. He comes to us with a fine track record at RSA and with a strong background in insurance and in shareholder advocacy. We look forward to him joining us in time for our Annual General Meeting on 17 May 2012."

António Horta-Osório, Group Chief Executive, said: "George brings a wealth of experience from his time at RSA and his appointment will strengthen further the senior team at Lloyds Banking Group and help us to deliver on our plans to transform the Bank and ultimately achieve our goal of becoming best Bank for customers".

will he make lloyds the best bank for shareholders?

the CEO does not like holders

in that case he is not going far if he doesn't like HMG his biggest shareholder.

The row over bankers’ bonuses re-ignited yesterday as Lloyds admitted it is dishing out up to £6million in pay and perks to its new finance director George Culmer.

After months of speculation the bank, which is 40 per cent state-owned, revealed the details of Culmer’s controversial pay package to the stockmarket.
It comes less than a week after Lloyds revealed a £3.5billion loss, having been forced to set aside £3.2billion compensation to pay customers


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this bank is out of control the board should all be sacked they are not sane

they are taking the piss out of holders and the tax payer ,
they are a bunch of thiefs running this bank

They're all at it T! It's just that HMG own part of these banks so we get to hear about the pay & bonuses. Believe me, HSBC, BARC, Santander, BNP Paribas, Credit Lyonnais etc etc are all paying their top staff huge money.

harry it is sickening i am beginning to take sides with the rioters .
i am a right winger and it makes me sick .

Right Winger?

Co-op's Lloyds deal at risk after FSA orders reforms

The Financial Services Authority has ordered the Co-op to overhaul the way it runs its business or face the possibility of losing the right to buy 630 Lloyds Banking Group branches.

Can Lloyds keep the branches?
Computer system incompatibility is an important issue and even if FSA accept changes, Lloyds customers will move their accounts to other Lloyds branches. IMO

its about time these people with mortgages paid to borrow my money it is still to cheap rates should be over 6 percent they have been bailed out by savers for to long

Credit Suisse note:
"Following the full year results we have updated our estimates. We think that management are starting to restructure the business into a smaller more profitable unit, which we view positively, although we also think that consensus is still too high and there is a lot of work to be done. We now expect EPS of 1.1p in 2012E, 1.7p in 2013E and 4.0p in 2014E with a 35p target price (old 33p).
Net interest margin of c.200bps expected in 2014E – compared to guidance of 220-235bps. We estimate 192bps NIM for 2012E, which is in line with the new guidance given with the FY results. Whilst we see the upward re-pricing of the SVR as a positive, we see this as more of a necessity in getting to the guidance already given rather than an incremental positive – as such we would caution against reading too much into this. Assuming no liability, cost or substitution offset this is worth c.£200mn to the bottom line. Further, whilst the group took a larger than expected €14.6bn of ECB funding in the second tranche of the 3yr LTRO, we see this having a limited impact, given the scale of group funding needs.
Project Verde still unclear, risk of a more expensive solution – the most recent press commentary (Telegraph) suggests that FSA may require the Co-op group to hold more capital and restructure the business in order to purchase the branches. If the transaction does not proceed in its current state, we think that Lloyds may have to find a less optimal solution for the Verde assets, incurring additional cost. We have a £500mn loss on disposal in our numbers, in addition to £1bn of associated restructuring costs.
More positively, we think that management are beginning to reshape the group – whilst it will take time, we believe the management are starting to get to grips with the business and make the group more ‘Lloyds-like’, slowly deleveraging the assets acquired with the HBOS transaction. At 0.6x 13E TNAV for a 5% RoTE in 13E and 7% in 14E, the stock remains Neutral."

CO-OP GROUP DELAYED IN BID FOR LLOYDS BRANCHES

The Co-operative Group's [CWSGR.UL] attempt to buy 630 branches from Lloyds Banking Group has been delayed as the mutual comes under pressure to overhaul its board, which includes a Methodist minister, a plasterer and a nurse.

Any reason for the fall in share price?
Are they liable or lost as a result of Greek Bond deal?

Sunday papers had a big article concerning the possible mis-selling of loans & financial products (interest rate derivatives) to small businesses by the banks, so may be yet another chunk of money to be set aside for return to SME's.

thank you. But many of the companies could be subject to providing misleading information to banks too.
there is no clear cut, and would take very long to prove, if possible at all, and cost the companies much more than they could possibly gain. So, ignore it.