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Legal & General and Lloyds Banking Group lead £35 million investment in Moneyhub

UK open finance and data platform Moneyhub has secured an initial £35m in funding from high profile backers Legal & General and Lloyds Banking Group, with an additional £5m debt facility provided by Shawbrook.

24 October 2022

Company announcement/payments

Lloyds partners Billhop on commercial card payments

Lloyds Bank has signed a deal with Billhop that will deliver new, innovative services for commercial banking clients. The new services include enabling businesses to make card payments to any supplier, including those that do not accept them already.

19 October 2022

News/startups

Lloyds launches fintech sandbox with NayaOne

UK high street bank Lloyds has stepped up its efforts to engage with fintechs with the release of its Innovation Sandbox supported by NayaOne.

19 October 2022

News/retail

75% of UK banks will invest in tech to combat costs – Lloyds

Lloyds Bank research has found that UK financial institutions are increasingly turning to technology to combat the rising costs of living.

10 October 2022

News/retail

Lloyds Bank launches combined spending and savings account for kids

Lloyds Bank has launched Smart Start, a combined spending and saving account designed for 11 to 15 year olds.

06 October 2022

News/regulation

Barclays awards Lloyds Bank first place in CBDC Hackathon

Taking place over two days at the bank’s fintech hub, Rise, the Barclays CBDC Hackathon saw nine teams attempt six key challenges as they competed to create ‘the future of money.’

30 September 2022

News/security

Starling responds to UK Govt's report on suspected BBLS fraud

UK Government has confirmed that of the £47 billion provided in loans through the Bounce Back Loan (BBL) scheme, £1.1 billion of these loans are suspected to be fraudulent.

07 September 2022

News/retail

UK's bank branch sharing project to be extended

A trial project involving bank branches shared by multiple institutions is set to be rolled out across the UK.

06 September 2022

News/payments

Lloyds: almost 9 in 10 card payments now contactless

Nearly nine in 10 in-person debit card purchases are now contactless, according to data from Lloyds Bank.

05 September 2022

News/retail

Lloyds customers locked out of online banking and mobile app

Hundreds of Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers have been locked out of their accounts thanks to a problem affecting the banks' online services and mobile apps.

25 August 2022

News/wealth

AJ Bell signs for Lloyds FundBy Bank tech

Lloyds has signed investment platform AJ Bell to its open banking-powered FundBy Bank technology.

23 August 2022

News/payments

Lloyds completes UK's first digital promissory note purchase

Lloyds Bank is bringing a 4000-year-old debt instrument into the 21st century, completing the UK's first transaction using a digital promissory note purchase.

18 August 2022