Lloyds Banking Group

The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally banned the selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) at the point-of-sale, following a legal challenge from Barclays.

The FTSE has fallen steadily this afternoon as investors failed to take confidence in strong Q1 results from Barclays.

The Lloyds Banking Group, the 41% taxpayer-owned institution, has returned to profit in the first three months of the year.

A Liberal Democrat government would immediately set "non-negotiable" net lending targets for state-owned banks Lloyds and RBS.

State-owned Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are offering preferable mortgage borrowing terms to some of their high net worth customers for the first time since the start of the credit crisis.

Banks have warned they would be forced to halt lending to small businesses by tighter international regulations they say are being rushed in.

Lloyds Banking Group and Société Générale have joined the UK Structured Products Association (UK SPA).

Part-nationalised banks led declines on the FTSE in late Tuesday trading amid concerns about what the Government plans to do with its stakes in them after the General Election.

The Chancellor has announced new targets for lending for the state-aided banks, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

Lloyds Banking Group could be about to sell its entire stake in St James's Place.