"you sold some people unnecessary insurance, now contact them asap and compensate".....I think it's partly because the banks have proven that they can't be trusted to get it right, so regulators have stepped in and forced them to take a hit.

My point is that the regulators could have insisted that the banks contact their customers direct, not wait for a PPI claim. It wouldn't have stopped the shysters bottom fishing for those of no fixed abode but it would have been the decent thing to do in the majority of cases. The most vulnerable to that type of sales tactic were the unsophisticated and cash strapped.

HALF-YEAR REPORT

Strong financial performance with improvements in underlying and statutory profit
· Underlying profit of £4.5 billion, up 8 per cent; underlying return on tangible equity of 16.6 per cent
· Total income 4 per cent higher at £9.3 billion
- Net interest income of £5.9 billion, up 2 per cent with improved margin of 2.82 per cent
- Other income 8 per cent higher at £3.3 billion
· Operating costs 1 per cent lower at £4.0 billion. Market-leading cost:income ratio improved to 45.8 per cent
· Asset quality remains strong with impairment charge of £268 million, asset quality ratio stable at 12 basis points
· Loans and advances increased to £453 billion, including the benefit of the acquisition of MBNA
· Statutory profit before tax 4 per cent higher at £2.5 billion, despite an additional £1 billion of conduct charges in the second quarter, primarily in respect of PPI
· Strong capital generation of c.100 basis points reflecting strong underlying performance with common equity tier 1 (CET1) ratio of 14.0 per cent (13.5 per cent post dividend); leverage ratio of 4.9 per cent
· Tangible net assets per share of 52.4 pence (31 Dec 2016: 54.8 pence) after payment of 2016 final dividend of 2.2 pence per share and a 1.4 pence per share reduction from the acquisition of MBNA

2017 guidance for NIM and AQR updated, with all other guidance reaffirmed
· Net interest margin for the full year now expected to be close to 2.85 per cent, including MBNA
· Asset quality ratio for the full year now expected to be less than 20 basis points, including MBNA
· Continue to expect 2017 capital generation at the top end of the 170-200 basis points ongoing guidance range
· All other longer term guidance remains unchanged

Increased interim dividend
· Interim ordinary dividend of 1.0 pence per share, up 18 per cent, in line with our progressive and sustainable approach to ordinary dividends.

more .....

All in all a decent 1st half

SP is still lower than in May 2017 ---- perhaps those PPI advertisements on the car-radio are to blame . . . I hold from both earlier (Higher) and Post-Crash times . . . Now, I might be in profit on this one.

Still just in the channel.

Deutsche Bank Buy 67.27 79.00 79.00 Reiterates

Barclays Capital Overweight 67.27 - - Reiterates

What Lloyds Bank needs to hit 76p

A large drop this morning at one time 1.22p due mainly to X- dividend

Interim 2017
Dividend (per share) 1.00p

Ex Dividend Date 10/08/2017

Payment Date27/09/2017

mentor- a bit of banter on this board is great fun-but you are seriously getting on my man boobs (figure of speech) with condescending remarks like "only when i say so" (lloyds 14/6 and others). Get alive -or a job-or a girl friend)

robin

where have you been all this time ( 14/6) hidding on the forest?

you haven't been robbing again? ... you very naughty boy

eat a rotten apple, and maybe the worm will make you a saint

Since reaching 73p last June the trend has been down and today has been its lowest since- intraday 63.65p - has recovered to 64p now

are we looking for 62p or will have to go for the bottom 58p.

60 after all is a round number

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I would like @ 62p entry, wonder if in any bad day soon
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Lloyds Bank: The case for 34% upside - By Lee Wild | Mon, 4th September 2017 - 12:32

There had been much to like about Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) before the start of summer. Impressive profits, a generous dividend, and all-round improvement in the banking business has rewarded patient shareholders and attracted new ones.

Indeed, buying at the post-referendum lows of 47p and selling at the May high would have generated a capital return of around 56%. Over 4p a share of dividends has also been announced since.

Yet, there is disagreement about the merits of backing Lloyds now. Certainly, from a technical angle, our analyst John Burford suggests the shares are at a critical juncture, with further downside quite possible.

Bears point to a 14% drop in the share price from 73.5p three-and-a-half months ago to levels last seen in April. That's at a time when the wider market has moved sideways and the bank sector has risen 2%. And this downtrend (see red line on the chart below), currently at 63p, remains a significant level.

There's been a hiccup on the fundamentals, too. Lloyds has done a great job rebuilding its financial strength following the Credit Crunch, and the shares had been moving nicely. However, second-quarter results late July disappointed. Reported profit was up 4%, but a fifth less than expected because of surprise PPI provisions and other conduct issues.

An increase in UK interest rates, which would be a significant boost to margins at Lloyds, appear no closer, either.

Despite this, Jason Napier at UBS remains a fan, and Lloyds stays on his list of top bank stocks to buy. A price target of 85p implies 34% upside.



Launched in May 2016, Napier's list has returned 40%, outperforming the index by 5%. And that's despite holding Lloyds - down 6% from its 67p portfolio entry price - through the Brexit vote.

However, the high street lender is "safer than you think" and "cheaper than the market believes," writes the analyst.

"Despite our cautious view on the UK economy we expect Lloyds to deliver broadly flat adjusted EPS in 2017-2019 as pre-provision profit growth offsets substantially higher loan losses," says Napier. "We do not expect earnings growth but we believe good capital generation will finance a dividend yield of over 8%."

And UBS differs from others, arguing that net interest income generation is more sustainable than the market credits. In fact, there's room for re-pricing of deposits and return to growth in the open resi[dential] mortgage portfolio.

"We see more capacity for cost reduction to offset revenue weakness should competitive conditions worsen beyond management expectations. We see optionality in investing in investments and insurance-driven businesses too."

And UBS admits its assumptions could be conservative. "In four of the last five UK recessions, the banks made their share price lows before the recessions began," points out Napier.

Expect a share price re-rating if Lloyds keeps outperforming peers like Barclays in unsecured loan losses, defends interest margins and grows the balance sheet.

Of the other London-listed banks under UBS's microscope, the broker rates HSBC (HSBA) and Standard Chartered (STAN) both 'neutral with targets of 725p and 800p respectively, suggesting modest downside for the former and a small tick up for Standard.

HSBC's valuation - 1.3 times tangible net asset value for a 10% forecast return on tangible equity with 5.3% dividend yield - fully discounts UBS's base case forecasts.

For Standard, its turnaround is on track this year, but things will be "far more of a stretch" in 2018, argues Napier.

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The bounce is on, since yesterday on reaching the expected 62p double bottom
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moving ahead despite FTSE going nowhere

64.61p +0.98 +1.54%

close to 65p now, not at this price for 2 weeks now

August's inflation rate of 2.9% has got the market expecting a rise on inteerest rates much earlier posibly February instead of May next year and with that Sterling rose to $1.3275 not seeing for some time or months.

So no wonder that the LLOY share price got in the mood today on a dump day for the market