Lloyds Banking Group

A choice of credit ratings

Investors can choose between a Triple B and a Single A rated bank issuer in this five-year rollover plan, and receive different coupon payments on the basis of this choice as long as index levels at the product’s anniversaries are above the strike level

Disposal expert

John Crompton, head of market investments at UK Financial Investments, talks to Alexander Campbell

UK may issue exchangeable gilts

The UK Treasury may issue bonds exchangeable into shares of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB, according to the asset manager responsible for the government's stakes in the two banks.

RBS signs up to UK's asset-protection scheme

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which today announced 2008 losses of £24.1 billion, has become the first bank to sign up to the UK government's asset-protection scheme, which will offer insurance against future losses in return for a promise to increase…

CDS spreads continue to tighten

Credit default swap (CDS) spreads on financial institutions had tightened further by close of play on September 19, as market confidence continued to rise after large injections of cash from central banks

The Feds are coming

Regulators in the US are cracking down on banks in their stringent anti-money laundering campaign. Nick Kochan looks at the civil penalties being imposed on financial institutions and wonders whether they are entirely justified

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