Lloyds Banking Group
RBS boosts equity derivatives sales team
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Andy Savill as an equity derivatives sales manager for the UK and Ireland.
Lloyds TSB hires liquidity risk and balance sheet manager
Lloyds TSB, the UK bank, has hired Mark Preston as a new managing director in its financial markets unit that manages liquidity risk and balance sheet requirements.
Regulators remain fuzzy on practicalities of AMA group allocation approach
Both US and UK regulators offered only clues about how the various controversies surrounding the group allocation issue would be resolved at OpRisk Europe and OpRisk USA, hosted by Incisive Media in March.
UK regulator clamps down on structured product selling
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to finalise tough new guidelines for marketing retail structured products this month, as it moves to strengthen oversight after 2003's 'precipice' bond controversy, which saw Lloyds TSB fined almost £2…
FSA chief hits out at structured products
Financial Services Authority (FSA) chairman Callum McCarthy has warned of the dangers of banks selling complicated financial products to customers who do not fully understand them.
Lloyds TSB hires FSA risk regulator
Lloyds TSB, fined recently by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling investment products to retail investors, has responded by hiring the UK financial watchdog's top risk regulator.
Lloyds TSB hires FSA risk regulator
Lloyds TSB, fined recently by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling investment products to retail investors, has responded by hiring the UK financial watchdog's top risk regulator.
Lloyds TSB selects SAS to manage risk
UK financial services group Lloyds TSB has installed banking risk management software from SAS, a North Carolina-based data management software vendor. The technology will help the bank to meet Basel II credit risk compliance and further automate its…
Lloyds TSB selects SAS to manage risk
UK financial services group Lloyds TSB has installed banking risk management software from SAS, a North Carolina-based data management software vendor. The technology will help the bank to meet Basel II credit risk compliance and further automate its…
Roundtable > Operational risk quantification: a discipline at a crossroads
Operational Risk magazine held its first European roundtable during Risk magazine's annual European congress, in Paris, on April 9.
Credit protection for troubled European financials remains stable
The cost of protection for European financials has remained relatively unchanged this week, despite a spate of downgrades and negative ratings actions. Abbey National released poor results today, but credit default swaps on the British bank held firm…