Lloyds TSB chair Sir Victor Blank: “I think we’re creating a Great British bank”
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Was Lloyds TSB kept in the dark about the parlous state of HBOS’s corporate loan book? Should Lloyds TSB have […]
If Lloyds Banking Group or the UK authorities ever get round to properly investigating the £1bn HBOS Reading fraud, they
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Sir Victor Blank, who has been forced out as Lloyds Banking Group chairman by investors, has spent the weekend trying to