Lloyds Banking Group - News, Articles & Research

Banks come back online after AWS outage

UK banks' online services are beginning to recover after a problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread outages across several apps and websites.

20 October 2025

News/cloud

AWS outage hits UK banks' online services

Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland have seen their online services go down following an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

20 October 2025

News/payments

Lloyds and Lolly unveil Pay by Bank self-service kiosks

Lloyds has teamed up with hospitality technology specialist Lolly on a Pay by Bank system for self-service kiosks.

20 October 2025

News/payments

Lloyds’ barcode cash paying-in app feature proves a hit

Lloyds says the barcode cash paying-in app feature it launched in August has already been used to pay in over £3 million at PayPoint high street locations.

07 October 2025

News/payments

UK banks prep live pilot of tokenised sterling deposits

The UK's biggest banks are embarking on a pilot project to deliver the country's first live transactions of tokenised sterling deposits (GBTD).

29 September 2025

News/retail

Lloyds deploys Broadcom tech to support data centre consolidation

Lloyds Banking Group will deploy VMware Cloud Foundation from Broadcom to support its data centre consolidation strategy.

17 September 2025

News/payments

Lloyds' customers deposit over £1 million at PayPoint stores in first month

Customers of Lloyds bank have deposited over £1 million with PayPoint's BankLocal service within a month of the app-based cash deposit feature going live.

16 September 2025

News/people

Lloyds Bank looks to cut underperforming staff

Lloyds Banking Group is reviewing staff performance metrics with the aim of axing chronic underperformers.

04 September 2025

News/ai

Banks set to accelerate spend on AI as productivity surges

Lloyds’ Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey finds that UK financial firms are doubling down on AI as producivity surges.

04 September 2025

Company announcement/payments

Lloyds wins tender for public sector payment processing

Lloyds has won, after a competitive tender, a contract to provide banking services for several government departments and public sector bodies, including the Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, HM Revenue & Customs and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

12 August 2025

News/payments

Lloyds launches in-app barcode cash deposit scanning at PayPoint stores

Lloyds is the first major UK bank to launch a mobile app feature which allows cash to be paid in at over 30,000 PayPoint high street locations nationwide, using a simple barcode.

12 August 2025

Company announcement/wholesale

Lloyds-led transaction unveils benefits of structured data in trade

Together with technology solution providers Enigio and Cleareye.ai, Lloyds and Maersk have completed a digital trade transaction using embedded structured data which delivered 100% data extraction accuracy and accelerated the end-to-end transactional process.

24 July 2025