Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four" clearing banks. Lloyds Bank is the largest retail bank in Britain, and has an extensive network of branches and ATMs in England and Wales (as well as an arrangement for its customers to be serviced by Bank of Scotland branches in Scotland, Halifax branches in Northern Ireland and vice versa) and offers 24-hour telephone and online banking services.
25 Gresham Street, London | |
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| Company type | Public limited company |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 3 June 1765 (Taylors and Lloyds) |
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| Headquarters | 25 Gresham Street, , |
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| Products | Banking and Insurance |
| £17.5 billion (2016) | |
| £16.6 billion (2016) | |
| Total assets | £436 billion (2016, average interest-earning banking assets) |
Number of employees | 45,856 |
| Parent | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Subsidiaries | Lloyds Bank International Limited Lloyds Bank (Gibraltar) Limited |
| Website | lloydsbank |
Founded in Birmingham in 1765, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1995, it merged with the Trustee Savings Bank and traded as Lloyds TSB Bank plc between 1999 and 2013. In January 2009, it became the principal subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed by the acquisition of HBOS by the then-Lloyds TSB Group. It has its operational headquarters in London and other offices in Wales and Scotland. It also operates a number of the office complex, brand headquarters, and data centres in Birmingham, Yorkshire including Leeds, Sheffield, Halifax and Wolverhampton.