A recent decline in share prices seems to be over, and values are picking up again. While the last couple of years have been interesting ones for the banking industry, most have survived relatively unscathed, and a bank the size of Lloyds, after suitable rescue funding, can be assumed to continue functioning in a profitable manner. Insurance covers the general divisions of pensions, life insurance, and other insurance, while wealth & international is concerned with private banking for richer customers. Wholesale is commercial, or corporate banking. Retail covers the High Street banking area, with personal accounts, credit cards, and mortgages. Lloyds is split into four divisions – retail, wholesale, insurance, and ‘wealth & international’. The banking group’s fortunes are closely tied to the UK economy and the bank could see lending increase with falling bad debts if momentum continues to build as expected. However, recent years have been troubling for the banking industry, which means that nearly half of the group is currently owned by the government. As such, it is now the largest ever UK bank, dealing with 25% of all savings accounts and more than 30% of UK mortgages. In its latest incarnation it is a combination of Lloyds TSB (a prior combination of Lloyds and the Trustee Savings Bank) and the Halifax banking group HBOS. There can hardly be a person who has not heard of Lloyds Bank. Go back to Trade FTSE 100 Shares Spread Bet Lloyds Banking Group

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