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• Banker, insurance provider Lloyds TSB may soon get takeover bid, analysts say.

  - 2004-12-05

  By Helen Dunne, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 5--Lloyds TSB is holding talks with the Financial Services Authority to calculate how much capital its Scottish Widows life insurance arm needs to satisfy new accounting standards. ...

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• 2001 reviewed: Lloyds TSB looks forlorn

  - 2001-12-23

  Sir Brian Pitman was a hard act to follow. Blunt, belligerent and brilliant, he took Lloyds Bank from a struggling high-street lender - with difficulties in Latin America and the bond markets - to the most admired retail banking group in Europe. En route, he bought TSB and with it,...

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• Personal Finance: QUESTIONS OF CASH - Stuck with low rates on old

  - 2001-11-24

  I am very angry that the Coventry Building Society is paying interest to an elderly relative of mine of just 0.5 per cent on thousands of pounds in an "investment account". I have found two other elderly relatives are also being paid next to nothing on their savings with other...

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• The black horse gets reined in

  - 2001-07-15

  have a question about Peter Ellwood," said a fund manager after Lloyds TSB's pounds 20bn bid for Abbey National was blocked. "Is he merely the John Major of Lloyds TSB, holding the fort between the retirement of Sir Brian Pitman and the emergence of another strong leader - a Tony...

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• Consolidation in British Banking Nullifies Early Promise of Competition.

  - 2001-04-29

  By Richard Northedge, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 29--There used to be four big banks that dominated the high streets. Then, in the 1980s, competition arrived. Building societies moved beyond mortgages and savings books to offer current accounts and the...

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• Public invited to have their say on Abbey-Lloyds TSB deal

  - 2001-03-14

  DENISE KINGSMILL, the chairman of the Competition Commission, is to host a Question Time-style debate for members of the public to air their concerns about the proposed takeover of Abbey National by Lloyds TSB. This is the first such public meeting to be held over a commercial merger. ...

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• Inspired move or a #19bn spoiler?; Lloyds TSB's bid for Abbey

  - 2001-02-04

  THE CITY'S VIEW: Teresa Hunter believes Lloyds TSB cannot afford to be anything but serious about its Abbey offer - and that spells bad news for BoS THE Bank of Scotland blew it when its failure to decide who should get which top job prevented it agreeing...

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• Ross ready for crucial Lloyds role

  - 2001-01-21

  MIKE Ross sounded just a trifle homesick when informed that it was snowing in his native Edinburgh and that the Scottish capital resembled a winter wonderland. "I'm afraid I'm confined to my Lombard Street office," he complained from the London base that has become his three-day-a-week headquarters in recent months....

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• BoS and Abbey ask OFT for clearance on pounds 26bn merger

  - 2000-12-16

  BANK OF Scotland and Abbey National yesterday raised the stakes in the three-way poker game with Lloyds TSB, issuing a joint announcement that they have asked the Office of Fair Trading for merger clearance. The move puts the pressure on Lloyds to back off and let Abbey...

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