Lloyds news and trends

Lloyds and Cleareye Launch AI-Centric Trade Finance Partnership
artificial intelligence // September 03, 2024

Lloyds Bank has launched a collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) platform Cleareye.ai. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Sept. 3) and said to be the first of its kind in the U.K., will use AI to streamline processing and compliance checking for trade finance documentation. The effort...

Lloyds Taps AWS Vet Rohit Dhawan to Lead AI Efforts
Personnel // August 05, 2024

British banking giant Lloyds has picked an Amazon Web Services veteran as its AI head. Rohit Dhawan has been named Lloyds’ director of artificial intelligence (AI), overseeing the firm’s AI Center of Excellence and driving adoption of AI-powered products and services for the lender, per a Monday (Aug. 5) news...

UK Banking Giants Accused of Breaching CMA Rules
Bank Regulation // July 25, 2024

Four major U.K. banks have been accused of violating a regulator’s competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says HSBC, Lloyds, TSB and AIB all breached a 2017 order created in response to competition concerns in the retail banking sector. The order requires banks to follow strict rules for informing customers about...

Lloyds Forms Direct Lending Partnership With Oaktree Capital
Partnerships // July 18, 2024

Lloyds Bank and Oaktree Capital Management have teamed to support U.K. “middle-market sponsor-backed borrowers.” The collaboration, announced Thursday (July 18), will see Lloyds’ structured debt finance team work with Oaktree’s European private debt platform to provide clients with a solution for new buyouts and refinancings...

Interviews & Exclusives
Joor Brings Global B2B Payments To The Fashion Runway

November 11, 2020
Domestic B2B payments are complicated enough, but making these payments across international borders is a whole other challenge. Companies that rely on cross-border B2B payments may not have to deal with paper checks, but ever-shifting foreign exchange (FX) rates, mounting paper invoices and other manual processes and security worries surrounding wire transfers are just a […]

NEW REPORT: GM Takes Aim At Urban Gridlock With Maven

June 22, 2017
From depositing money to grocery shopping to access to vehicles, unattended retail solutions are stepping up to meet a variety of needs in an age of unattended retail solutions. Unattended...

Quick Reads
Lloyds Calls for Swift End to British Car Loan Investigation

September 09, 2024
A U.K. banking executive says the country needs to resolve its unfair auto-lending practice investigation. Great Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in July that it was extending that probe, something that doesn’t sit well with William Chalmers, finance chief for Lloyds. “A delay isn’t what we want to see, we want to see a […]

Lloyds and Cleareye Launch AI-Centric Trade Finance Partnership

September 03, 2024
Lloyds Bank has launched a collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) platform Cleareye.ai. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Sept. 3) and said to be the first of its kind in the U.K.,...

Lloyds Taps AWS Vet Rohit Dhawan to Lead AI Efforts

August 05, 2024
British banking giant Lloyds has picked an Amazon Web Services veteran as its AI head. Rohit Dhawan has been named Lloyds’ director of artificial intelligence (AI), overseeing the firm’s AI Center of Excellence and driving...

UK Banking Giants Accused of Breaching CMA Rules

July 25, 2024
Four major U.K. banks have been accused of violating a regulator’s competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says HSBC, Lloyds, TSB and AIB all breached a 2017 order created in response to competition concerns in the...