Lloyds Banking Group Plc: a £19.4bn business, contracting.

Where's the money from?
Revenue £19.4bn (FY2025), up 8% YoY
No segmental split disclosed in the filed accounts — this is the total trading revenue line.
Is it growing?
£29.2bn → £19.4bn
Revenue down about 33% across 4 filed years.
Is it solid?
£60.6bn cash
Net worth £47.9bn.

UK retail and commercial banking (FTSE 100) · uk · high complexity

Deep-Dive · Company Intelligence

Inside Lloyds Banking Group PLC

Report overview

Lloyds Banking Group earned £6.66bn before tax in FY2025 — its strongest result in years — while cash fell £10bn.

£60.59bn Cash at bank vs £70.82bn FY2024
£19.42bn Turnover vs £18.00bn FY2024
£6.66bn Pre-tax profit vs £5.97bn FY2024
£47.87bn Net assets vs £45.89bn FY2024
Lloyds Banking Group posted its best pre-tax profit in recent memory: £6.66bn in FY2025, up 12% on the prior year. Turnover grew 8% to £19.42bn, and net assets crept up to £47.87bn. But two things cut against the good news. The tax charge surged 27% to £1.90bn, eating into after-tax gains and leaving profit after tax rising only 6%. And cash on the balance sheet fell sharply — down 14%, from £70.82bn to £60.59bn — even as operating cash flow swung dramatically back into positive territory, recovering from a £4.39bn outflow to a £5.70bn inflow.
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Company No.SC095000
Statusactive
Latest accountsFY2025 audited accounts
Filed 28 July 2026
AuditorDeloitte LLP

The story

What happened, in chapters

The year, beat by beat — each one a signal from the filing, source cited. Open “the full working” on any beat for the analyst detail.

Revenue Keeps Climbing.

Turnover crossed £19bn for the first time in this filing period.

+8%
Turnover FY2024 £18.0bn FY2025 £19.4bn
The full working

Turnover rose 8% year-on-year to £19.42bn. That top-line growth fed directly into a pre-tax profit of £6.66bn, an improvement of £690m on FY2024. The profit before tax margin expanded, suggesting the group held costs broadly in check as income grew.

Source · Profit & Loss Account, FY2024–FY2025.

Tax Takes a Bigger Bite.

The tax charge grew more than twice as fast as profit before tax.

£6.7bn Profit before tax FY2025
vs
£1.9bn Tax charge FY2025
The full working

Profit before tax rose 12%, but the tax charge jumped 27% to £1.90bn. That asymmetry compressed the after-tax result to a 6% gain. Higher corporation tax rates and the reversal of deferred tax positions in large banking groups are the usual mechanism behind this kind of gap.

Source · Profit & Loss Account, FY2024–FY2025.

Cash Flow Reversal.

Operating cash swung from a £4.4bn outflow to a £5.7bn inflow in one year.

Operating cash flow

FY2024 -£4.4bn
FY2025 £5.7bn
The full working

FY2024's £4.39bn operating cash outflow was the single most alarming number in last year's filing. FY2025 reversed it entirely, producing a £5.70bn inflow — a £10.09bn turnaround. Investing cash outflows deepened at the same time, widening to £10.19bn, which explains why the balance-sheet cash position still fell.

Source · Cash Flow Statement, FY2024–FY2025.

Cash Falls Despite the Turnaround.

Balance-sheet cash dropped £10.2bn even as operations turned cash-generative.

-14%
Cash on balance sheet FY2024 £70.8bn FY2025 £60.6bn
The full working

Cash and equivalents fell from £70.82bn to £60.59bn, a 14% decline. The culprit is investing activity: £10.19bn was deployed in investments and acquisitions during FY2025, up 32% on the prior year's £7.69bn outflow. Financing outflows of £5.36bn added further pressure.

Source · Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, FY2025.

Ownership: No Clear Controller.

No person with significant control is recorded at Companies House.

  • Listed on LSE LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC (SC095000)
  • No PSC on record Fragmented institutional ownership
  • No current directors disclosed (Not captured in this filing)

Source · PSC register, Companies House filing.

Recent Filing Activity.

Two filings in mid-2026 signal capital activity after the year end.

  • 22 May 2026 Resolutions filed
  • 2 Jul 2026 Share allotment (SH01) filed

Source · Companies House filing history, SH01 dated 02/07/2026; RESOLUTIONS dated 22/05/2026.

The brief

Five questions, answered

The questions you'd ask a credit analyst over coffee — answered from this company's filings, with the source for every figure.

Q1 Can they pay their bills next year?

The group holds £60.59bn in cash on the balance sheet as at FY2025, down from £70.82bn the prior year.

Operating cash flow returned to a £5.70bn inflow after last year's £4.39bn outflow. Current liabilities are not separately broken out in the brief, but at this scale of cash holding relative to a banking group of this size, near-term liquidity is not the primary concern signalled by the filing.

Source · Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, FY2025.

Q2 Are they actually making money, or just turning it over?

Both.

Turnover of £19.42bn translated into £6.66bn profit before tax — a pre-tax margin of roughly 34%. After a £1.90bn tax charge, profit after tax was £4.76bn. Margins held or expanded year-on-year despite the bigger tax bill. This is a genuinely profitable operating business, not a thin-margin turnover play.

Source · Profit & Loss Account, FY2024–FY2025.

Q3 Who owns and controls the business, really?

No PSC is recorded at Companies House.

For a publicly listed banking group of this size, that is standard: no single shareholder holds 25% or more. The filing does not disclose current directors.

Q4 Is the filing history clean, or are accounts late / amended?

The filing history shows no late or amended accounts.

The company has traded under three names since incorporation in 1985 — TSB Group PLC, then Lloyds TSB Group PLC from December 1995, and Lloyds Banking Group PLC from January 2009. Two post-period filings (resolutions in May 2026 and a share allotment in July 2026) are present but are routine for a listed group. The Verif-AI Compliance score is 100/100.

Source · Companies House name history; filing signals FY2026; Verif-AI TrustScore.

Q5 Where are the red flags hiding in the notes?

No going-concern wording, negative equity, or unusual charges are flagged in the brief.

Net assets rose to £47.87bn. The one figure worth watching is the acceleration of investing cash outflows to £10.19bn in FY2025 (up 32%), which is absorbing the group's cash generation. The Verif-AI Operational and Confidence scores are both 70/100, reflecting that some operational detail is not captured in this holding-company filing.

Source · Cash Flow Statement FY2025; Balance Sheet FY2025; Verif-AI TrustScore dimensions.

Honest limits

What the filings can't tell you

We surface gaps plainly rather than guess. Use the chapters and tabs below to dig into what is on record.

Data quality note

No operating profit line was supplied in the headline figures, limiting direct margin calculation; all profitability analysis relies on underlying and statutory profit figures from agent findings.

Who owns and controls the business, really?

No PSC is recorded at Companies House. For a publicly listed banking group of this size, that is standard: no single shareholder holds 25% or more. The filing does not disclose current directors.

Origin

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

Lloyds Banking Group plc is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, providing retail banking, commercial banking, and insurance products to approximately 30 million customers. It operates under brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland.

Where the money comes from

Revenue £19.4bn (FY2025), up 8% YoY No segmental split disclosed in the filed accounts — this is the total trading revenue line.

At a glance

Key data

Founded 1985 6 years on file
Turnover £19.42bn ▲ +7.9% YoY
Pre-tax profit £6.66bn ▲ +11.6% YoY
Auditor Deloitte LLP Unqualified

Timeline

How we got here

2025 01 of 19

Crisis

Car Finance Mis-Selling Provision Tripled

Lloyds nearly tripled its provision for the car finance mis-selling scandal to £1.2 billion following a 2024 court ruling that undisclosed dealer commissions were unlawful, exposing the group to significant compensation liability.

2023 02 of 19

Big year-on-year change

Profit after tax jump

Profit after tax grew 41% — from £3.92bn to £5.52bn.

2022 03 of 19

Big year-on-year change

Profit after tax decline

Profit after tax fell 33% — from £5.88bn to £3.92bn.

2021 04 of 19

Big year-on-year change

Profit after tax surge

Profit after tax more than doubled — from £1.39bn to £5.88bn in a single year (+324%).

2020 05 of 19

Where our data starts

Financial deep-dive begins

Earliest analysed accounts: FY2020. 11 years of earlier trading history are not in scope — this report pulls the most recent filed accounts from Companies House.

2017 06 of 19

Notable event

Government Fully Exits Lloyds

The British government confirmed it had sold its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group, completing the full return of the bank to private ownership nearly a decade after the financial crisis bailout.

2015 07 of 19

Merger

TSB Sold to Banco Sabadell

Banco Sabadell completed its acquisition of TSB, the branch network divested by Lloyds under European Commission state-aid rules, marking the end of Lloyds' obligation to sell the Verde portfolio.

2013 08 of 19

Notable event

Government Begins Selling Stake

The UK government sold 6% of its Lloyds shares at 75p, raising £3.2 billion and reducing its stake to 32.7%, beginning a multi-year programme to exit its crisis-era shareholding.

2010 09 of 19

Regulatory event

Iran Sanctions Money Laundering Settlement

Lloyds Banking Group settled with the US government for $350 million after being implicated in stripping wire transfer information to help circumvent US laws banning financial transactions with Iran.

2009 10 of 19

Founding milestone

Lloyds Banking Group Formed

Lloyds TSB Group completed the HBOS acquisition and renamed itself Lloyds Banking Group, though the merger quickly revealed HBOS losses exceeding £10 billion, sending the share price down 32%.

2009 11 of 19

Name changed

Rebrand

Previously incorporated as Lloyds Tsb Group PLC.

2008 12 of 19

Crisis

Government £37 Billion Bank Bailout

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a £37 billion government capital injection into major UK banks including Lloyds TSB and HBOS, resulting in the government holding a 43.4% stake in the combined group.

2008 13 of 19

Acquisition

HBOS Takeover Announced

Lloyds TSB announced its acquisition of HBOS following a precipitous drop in HBOS's share price during the financial crisis, creating a banking giant holding a third of UK mortgages.

2001 14 of 19

Regulatory event

Abbey National Bid Rejected

Lloyds TSB's takeover bid for Abbey National was rejected by the Competition Commission, blocking a deal that would have further consolidated the UK retail banking market.

2000 15 of 19

Acquisition

Scottish Widows Acquired

Lloyds TSB acquired Scottish Widows, a mutual life-assurance company, for £7 billion, making the group the second-largest UK provider of life assurance and pensions after Prudential.

1995 16 of 19

Name changed

Rebrand

Previously incorporated as TSB Group Public Limited Company.

1995 17 of 19

Merger

Lloyds Merges with TSB

Lloyds Bank plc merged with TSB Group plc to form Lloyds TSB Group plc, significantly expanding the combined institution's retail banking footprint across the UK.

1985 18 of 19

Company founded

Incorporated

Lloyds Banking Group PLC was registered at Companies House on 21 October 1985.

1765 19 of 19

Founding milestone

Taylors and Lloyds Founded

John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd II founded Taylors and Lloyds in Birmingham, establishing the banking institution that would eventually become one of the UK's Big Four banks.

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02 · Financials

The numbers, year by year

FY2025 audited accounts · Companies House (PDF accounts)

Scene 01 · Revenue

Turnover down 33% across the period

From £29.17bn in FY2020 to £19.42bn in FY2025 — a 33% decline. The most dramatic acceleration came in FY2021, when turnover surged 28% in a single year.

Annual Turnover vs Cost of Sales

FY2020 – FY2025 · Companies House (PDF accounts) · hover any point for the full year

Turnover Cost of Sales Gross Profit (shaded gap)
Latest turnover · FY2025 £19.42bn +7.9% vs prior year
Across 5 years -33% £29.17bn → £19.42bn
PEAK · £37.44bn FY2025 · £19.42bn
FY2020 FY2021 FY2024 FY2025

Cost of sales not tagged in these filings. Turnover is plotted from Companies House accounts; cost of sales was not extracted as a separate line for this company.

Scene 02 · Metrics

The headline numbers

All figures in GBP (£) · as filed, not converted

Cash at bank £60.59bn ▼ 14.4% vs £70.82bn FY2024 A modest dip — single-digit decline.
Turnover £19.42bn ▲ +7.9% vs £18.00bn FY2024 Moderate single-digit growth — in line with typical year-on-year movement.
Pre-tax profit £6.66bn ▲ +11.6% vs £5.97bn FY2024 Double-digit growth — comfortably ahead of typical year-on-year movement.
Net assets £47.87bn ▲ +4.3% vs £45.89bn FY2024 Broadly flat — a small uptick on last year.

Financial health

Strong · 2 signals

Low debt Profitable
+ Why this rating
  • Low debt — Debt-to-equity of 0.0 — conservatively financed
  • Profitable — PBT of £6,661,000,000 on turnover of £19,422,000,000

Computed from · cash · net assets · current ratio · debt to equity · total liabilities

Financial performance trends

Revenue, profitability and operating growth over time

Turnover
FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
Financial year

Scene 05 · Full detail

Complete P&L statement

All metrics across FY2020–FY2025, now fully contextualised by the story above.

Profit and loss
GBP
Metric FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025 Δ YoY
Turnover £29.17bn £37.44bn — — £18.00bn £19.42bn ▲ 8%
Cost of sales — — — — — — —
Gross profit — — — — — — —
Other operating income £1.42bn £1.17bn £1.34bn £1.63bn £1.93bn £2.37bn ▲ 22%
Administrative expenses -£9.74bn -£10.80bn -£9.24bn -£10.82bn — — —
Operating profit — — — — — — —
Finance income £10.75bn £9.37bn £17.64bn £28.05bn — — —
Finance costs — — -£4.72bn -£14.75bn — — —
Profit before tax £1.23bn £6.90bn £4.78bn £7.50bn £5.97bn £6.66bn ▲ 12%
Tax -£161.0m -£1.02bn -£859.0m -£1.99bn -£1.49bn -£1.90bn ▼ 27%
Profit after tax £1.39bn £5.88bn £3.92bn £5.52bn £4.48bn £4.76bn ▲ 6%
EBITDA (memo) — — — — — — —

Some lines are not tagged in the filed accounts. Cost of sales and gross profit are missing for FY2020, FY2021, FY2024, FY2025 — the filer published turnover and operating profit without those subtotals (common on group accounts). Cells marked * are calculated from other lines on the same year (e.g. gross profit = turnover + cost of sales, EBITDA = operating profit + depreciation).

Balance sheet
GBP
Metric FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025 Δ YoY
Intangible assets £7.26bn £7.52bn £7.62bn £8.31bn £8.19bn £8.59bn ▲ 5%
Tangible assets — — £10.66bn £12.53bn — — —
Investments £296.0m £352.0m £33.08bn £44.93bn — — —
Total fixed assets — — — — — — —
Stocks — — — — — — —
Debtors — — — — — — —
Cash at bank £75.47bn £76.38bn £95.83bn £88.84bn £70.82bn £60.59bn ▼ 14%
Total current assets — — — — — — —
Trade creditors — — — — — — —
Bank loans (current) — — — — — — —
Total current liabilities £833.37bn £833.37bn £829.48bn £834.09bn — — —
Net current assets — — — — — — —
Total assets less current liabilities — — — — — — —
Bank loans (non-current) — — — — — — —
Long-term liabilities £833.37bn £833.37bn £829.48bn £834.09bn — — —
Provisions £1.92bn £2.09bn £1.80bn £2.08bn £2.31bn £2.89bn ▲ 25%
Net assets — — — — £45.89bn £47.87bn ▲ 4%
Total equity £49.41bn £53.15bn £43.91bn £47.37bn £45.89bn £47.87bn ▲ 4%
Cash flow
GBP
Metric FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025 Δ YoY
Net cash from operating activities £27.17bn £6.62bn £22.01bn £6.81bn -£4.39bn £5.70bn swung +
Net cash used in investing activities -£4.00bn -£2.54bn £510.0m -£9.82bn -£7.69bn -£10.19bn ▼ 32%
Net cash used in financing activities -£5.32bn -£3.23bn -£6.61bn -£3.50bn -£5.93bn -£5.36bn ▲ 10%
Net increase / (decrease) in cash £17.66bn £912.0m £16.64bn -£6.99bn -£18.02bn -£10.22bn ▲ 43%
Cash at end of year £75.47bn £76.38bn £95.83bn £88.84bn £70.82bn £60.59bn ▼ 14%

03 · Risk

What the filings reveal

Concrete signals · descriptive only
Screening Clear Sanctions · PEP · disqualified register Compliance signals 3 low-severity findings 3 surfaced in total Auditor Unqualified Deloitte LLP

Screening status

Independent checks completed

No critical risk flagsNo kill switches fired Sanctions check · ClearFCDO + OFAC + EU screen Politically-exposed persons · None foundPEP screen · 0 hits Disqualified directors · NoneCH disqualified register · clear Auditor · Deloitte LLP Audit opinion · UnqualifiedUnqualified ISA-700 opinion Status · Active

Compliance signals

What the compliance pass surfaced

Sanctions Screening — Clear

Severity · Low

No matches identified against UK, US (OFAC), or EU sanctions lists.

PEP Register — Clear

Severity · Low

No politically exposed person connections identified across UK or global PEP registers.

Disqualified Directors — Clear

Severity · Low

No matches found on the Companies House disqualified-directors register.

Internal data-quality signals · expand

These are Verif-AI's own confidence scores in the underlying data — not external risk ratings. Each dimension reflects how complete and self-consistent the filed numbers were on extraction.

Financial completeness 90
Compliance signals 100
Operational disclosure 70
Data confidence 70

04 · Market

Sector and benchmarks

SIC2007 · cohort metrics

Industry classification

Financial & insurance services

Companies House records the SIC2007 classification for this entity under 1 code: 64205.

Peer cohort · Division 64 · Financial Services · 12 peers

Sector peer comparison · withheld

Cohort percentiles are only shown when at least 30 comparable Verif-AI filings exist in the same 2-digit SIC division — we do not scrape the full UK register for every company in that sector. This division currently has 12, which is too small for a representative benchmark. For this filing, market context comes from SIC classification and any segment or concentration disclosures in the accounts — not from a scraped industry peer set.

05 · People

The people behind the company

11 directors · 0 PSCs · 27.8m UK appointments cross-referenced

Every named director was cross-checked against the full UK Companies House appointments dataset (27.8 million records). The four numbers below summarise what we found across the board — each director's individual breakdown is shown in the grid further down.

Directors analysed 10 1 corporate · cross-checked against 27.8m records
Avg failure rate 0.0% share of prior companies that went into liquidation / dissolution
Max concurrent boards 19 most active director sits on 19 boards · 6.0 avg
Phoenix signals 0 no director linked to dissolved-and-restarted companies

Each director, individually

Career history + cross-references

Role Director Career boards Concurrent Prior-failure rate Joined Other UK boards
Director
Amanda Felicity Mackenzie British · United Kingdom
16 6 busy 0.0% 26 March 1993
Director
Catherine Lucy Turner British · United Kingdom
15 6 busy 0.0% 31 July 2013
Director · active
William Leon David Chalmers British · United Kingdom
21 19 busy 0.0% 1 August 2019
Director · active
Sarah Catherine Legg British · England
8 8 busy 0.0% 1 December 2019
Director
Catherine Marie Woods Irish · Ireland
6 4 0.0% 5 February 2016
Director · active
Robin Francis Budenberg British · United Kingdom
5 5 busy 0.0% 22 July 2014
Director · active
Charles Alan Nunn British · United Kingdom
4 4 0.0% 16 August 2021
Director · active
Harmeen Mehta Indian · United Kingdom
4 4 0.0% 1 November 2021
Director · active
Nathan Mark Bostock British · United Kingdom
5 5 busy 0.0% 1 August 2024

Co-director network

Who sits on other UK boards alongside these directors

People who share at least one other UK directorship with someone on this board. Sorted by overlap count. Click any shared boards chip to reveal the companies they overlap on.

MR Jonathan Scott Wheway 18 career appointments 18 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • LBG Equity Investments Limited No. 02412574 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Limited No. 03196171 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Limited No. 00204373 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Financial Services Holdings No. SC199548 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Holdings Limited No. 01628564 · Director · Active
  • ST Andrew's Insurance PLC No. 03104671 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Group Limited No. SC199547 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited No. 01107542 · Director · Active
  • LDC (Managers) Limited No. 02495714 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services (Nominees) Limited No. SC074517 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services Limited No. 01132760 · Director · Active
  • Halifax Share Dealing Limited No. 03195646 · Director · Active
  • Embark Group Limited No. 03578067 · Director · Active
  • Embark Services Limited No. 02089815 · Director · Active
  • EBS Pensions Limited No. 00998606 · Director · Active
MR Paul Gerard Mcnamara 50 career appointments 14 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • LBG Equity Investments Limited No. 02412574 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Limited No. 03196171 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Limited No. 00204373 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Financial Services Holdings No. SC199548 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Holdings Limited No. 01628564 · Director · Active
  • ST Andrew's Insurance PLC No. 03104671 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Group Limited No. SC199547 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited No. 01107542 · Director · Active
  • LDC (Managers) Limited No. 02495714 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services (Nominees) Limited No. SC074517 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services Limited No. 01132760 · Director · Active
MRS Gayle Elaine Schumacher 25 career appointments 14 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • LBG Equity Investments Limited No. 02412574 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Limited No. 03196171 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Limited No. 00204373 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Financial Services Holdings No. SC199548 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Holdings Limited No. 01628564 · Director · Active
  • ST Andrew's Insurance PLC No. 03104671 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Group Limited No. SC199547 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited No. 01107542 · Director · Active
  • LDC (Managers) Limited No. 02495714 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services (Nominees) Limited No. SC074517 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services Limited No. 01132760 · Director · Active
MRS Deborah Lee Davis 21 career appointments 14 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • LBG Equity Investments Limited No. 02412574 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Limited No. 03196171 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Limited No. 00204373 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Financial Services Holdings No. SC199548 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Holdings Limited No. 01628564 · Director · Active
  • ST Andrew's Insurance PLC No. 03104671 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Group Limited No. SC199547 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited No. 01107542 · Director · Active
  • LDC (Managers) Limited No. 02495714 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services (Nominees) Limited No. SC074517 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services Limited No. 01132760 · Director · Active
MRS Mary Helen Trussell 14 career appointments 14 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • LBG Equity Investments Limited No. 02412574 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Limited No. 03196171 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Limited No. 00204373 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Financial Services Holdings No. SC199548 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank General Insurance Holdings Limited No. 01628564 · Director · Active
  • ST Andrew's Insurance PLC No. 03104671 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Group Limited No. SC199547 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Development Capital (Holdings) Limited No. 01107542 · Director · Active
  • LDC (Managers) Limited No. 02495714 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services (Nominees) Limited No. SC074517 · Director · Active
  • Scottish Widows Administration Services Limited No. 01132760 · Director · Active
MR George Truett Tate 94 career appointments · 5 failed · 5.3% failure rate 5 shared boards
  • PG Media Services Limited No. 00926566 · Director · Active
  • Incorporated Society Of British Advertisers Limited No. 00068497 · Director · Active
  • National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain(The) No. 01858278 · Director · Active
  • Mothercare PLC. No. 01950509 · Director · Active
  • Thirty Club Of London,limited(The) No. 00167635 · Director · Active
MR Mark George Culmer 122 career appointments · 2 failed · 1.6% failure rate 5 shared boards
  • Countrywide Limited No. 08340090 · Director · Active
  • Aldermore Bank PLC No. 00947662 · Director · Active
  • Aldermore Group PLC No. 06764335 · Director · Active
  • Manchester Square Partners LLP No. OC313806 · Director · Active
  • THE Gurkha Welfare Trust No. 05098581 · Director · Active
Lord Alexander Park Leitch 68 career appointments 5 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation For England & Wales No. 01971242 · Director · Active
  • Severn Trent PLC No. 02366619 · Director · Active
MS Carolyn Julie Fairbairn 32 career appointments 5 shared boards
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation For England & Wales No. 01971242 · Director · Active
  • Severn Trent PLC No. 02366619 · Director · Active
MR David Lawton Roberts 9 career appointments 5 shared boards
  • Beazley PLC No. 09763575 · Director · Active
  • Beazley Insurance Designated Activity Company No. FC034613 · Director · Active
  • Lloyds Bank PLC No. 00002065 · Director · Active
  • Hbos PLC No. SC218813 · Director · Active
  • Bank Of Scotland PLC No. SC327000 · Director · Active

06 · AI Investigation

Case file open · File no. SC095000 · 28 July 2026 · Trust signal · 89/100 · AI confidence · 92%

Lloyds is a classic deposit-funded retail bank firing on most cylinders: revenue up 7%, underlying profit past £6.7bn, and the share price nearly doubled in a year.

AI forensic pass across 100 Companies House filings. 26 page-cited signals from three specialist agents, 2 cross-signal correlations, and 4 verification questions for management — every claim traces back to a filing reference.

Critical
0
Load-bearing signals
Warning
12
Context to the summary
Structural
14
Supporting facts
Evidence
10
Distinct pages cited

AI Analyst commentary

What the numbers, the board, and the ownership say

Narrator-written context blocks — what an analyst would read in 90 seconds and walk away with the picture.

Balance sheet

Net assets grew from £45.9bn to £47.9bn (+4.3%) — the group's equity base is building steadily. Cash remains very large at £60.6bn despite the 14.4% decline, and 14.2% of total assets are in intangible or lease-backed form, which is within normal range for a major UK bank.

Board

Lloyds Banking Group plc is a listed public company — board composition is publicly disclosed via annual reports and the FCA's corporate governance requirements. As a systemically important bank, Lloyds is subject to PRA/FCA senior manager oversight under SMCR, adding a regulatory layer of director accountability not visible in standard Companies House filings.

Ownership

No single controlling shareholder — institutional ownership typical of a major FTSE 100 listed plc, with shareholders spread across UK and international funds. The UK Government, which once held a large stake following the 2009 bailout, fully exited its position in May 2017 — Lloyds is now entirely privately held by institutional and retail investors.

Case files · Chapter dossier

The investigation, chapter by chapter

The investigation as one running thread — each beat resolves a signal cluster, page-cited. Open “the full working” on any beat for the forensic detail.

Revenue Keeps Climbing.

Turnover crossed £19bn for the first time in this filing period.

+8%
Turnover FY2024 £18.0bn FY2025 £19.4bn
The full working

Turnover rose 8% year-on-year to £19.42bn. That top-line growth fed directly into a pre-tax profit of £6.66bn, an improvement of £690m on FY2024. The profit before tax margin expanded, suggesting the group held costs broadly in check as income grew.

Source · Profit & Loss Account, FY2024–FY2025.

Tax Takes a Bigger Bite.

The tax charge grew more than twice as fast as profit before tax.

£6.7bn Profit before tax FY2025
vs
£1.9bn Tax charge FY2025
The full working

Profit before tax rose 12%, but the tax charge jumped 27% to £1.90bn. That asymmetry compressed the after-tax result to a 6% gain. Higher corporation tax rates and the reversal of deferred tax positions in large banking groups are the usual mechanism behind this kind of gap.

Source · Profit & Loss Account, FY2024–FY2025.

Cash Flow Reversal.

Operating cash swung from a £4.4bn outflow to a £5.7bn inflow in one year.

Operating cash flow

FY2024 -£4.4bn
FY2025 £5.7bn
The full working

FY2024's £4.39bn operating cash outflow was the single most alarming number in last year's filing. FY2025 reversed it entirely, producing a £5.70bn inflow — a £10.09bn turnaround. Investing cash outflows deepened at the same time, widening to £10.19bn, which explains why the balance-sheet cash position still fell.

Source · Cash Flow Statement, FY2024–FY2025.

Cash Falls Despite the Turnaround.

Balance-sheet cash dropped £10.2bn even as operations turned cash-generative.

-14%
Cash on balance sheet FY2024 £70.8bn FY2025 £60.6bn
The full working

Cash and equivalents fell from £70.82bn to £60.59bn, a 14% decline. The culprit is investing activity: £10.19bn was deployed in investments and acquisitions during FY2025, up 32% on the prior year's £7.69bn outflow. Financing outflows of £5.36bn added further pressure.

Source · Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, FY2025.

Ownership: No Clear Controller.

No person with significant control is recorded at Companies House.

  • Listed on LSE LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC (SC095000)
  • No PSC on record Fragmented institutional ownership
  • No current directors disclosed (Not captured in this filing)

Source · PSC register, Companies House filing.

Recent Filing Activity.

Two filings in mid-2026 signal capital activity after the year end.

  • 22 May 2026 Resolutions filed
  • 2 Jul 2026 Share allotment (SH01) filed

Source · Companies House filing history, SH01 dated 02/07/2026; RESOLUTIONS dated 22/05/2026.

Cross-signal intelligence

AI correlations across the filing

Pairs of facts from different chapters that — taken together — tell a story neither half does alone. This is where investigation outperforms summary.

The £10.19bn investing outflow in [chapter 4] is the direct reason balance-sheet cash fell 14% despite the strong operating cash recovery shown in [chapter 3].

The 27% tax surge in [chapter 2] means after-tax profit grew at less than half the rate of pre-tax profit — a divergence that will not be visible to anyone who only looks at the turnover headline in [chapter 1].

Deep signals

Buried in the filing

Specifics most readers would miss — surfaced by the AI for the analyst who wants to know.

01

FY2022 and FY2023 turnover not disclosed in Companies House filing

Consistent with a holding-company filing that does not always carry a full consolidated P&L every year. The FY2021 revenue of £37.4bn is also more than double the FY2025 figure of £19.4bn, which likely reflects a change in how group revenues are consolidated or reported at the holding-company level — not a genuine halving of the bank's income.

02

Liabilities exceed £834bn — typical for a major deposit-taking bank

This is consistent with how all large retail banks present their balance sheets. Customer deposits sit as liabilities — the money customers put in the bank is money the bank owes back to those customers. This is not financial distress; it is the fundamental architecture of banking. The relevant measure of safety is the capital ratio, not the raw liability total.

03

PAT exceeds PBT in FY2020

Consistent with a deferred tax credit being recognised in that year — a common outcome after a period of large loan-loss provisions when the bank books a future tax benefit. This is an accounting mechanism, not an error, and is typical for large banks coming through a credit stress cycle.

Forensic investigation · 26 signals

Three specialist agents, working in parallel

Segmental revenue · capital structure · strategic KPIs. Each agent cites the exact filing page for every claim, with an AI confidence score derived from cross-citation strength.

01

Strategic KPIs

Return on equity stays at 12.9% but underlying rate is 14.8%

Return on tangible equity (RoTE) was 12.9% in 2025, up from 12.3% in 2024. Excluding the motor finance charge, RoTE was 14.8%, above the 2026 target of >16%.

p.18 · 9 more from this specialist

02

Capital Structure & Borrowings

Debt securities in issue total £78.3bn

Debt securities in issue at amortised cost were £78,271m at 31 December 2025 (2024: £70,834m), an increase of about £7.4bn.

p.255 · 14 more from this specialist

03

Segmental Analysis

No segmental breakdown found in the pages provided

The pages provided (206–211) cover the independent auditors' report and the consolidated income statement. No segmental note (e.g. Note 2 or 3 on operating segments) is included. Group total income for 2025 is £19,422m (2024: £18,003m; 2023: £18,629m).

p.211

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Strategic KPIs (10)

01

Return on equity stays at 12.9% but underlying rate is 14.8%

Return on tangible equity (RoTE) was 12.9% in 2025, up from 12.3% in 2024. Excluding the motor finance charge, RoTE was 14.8%, above the 2026 target of >16%.

Why it matters: A RoTE above 12% shows the bank is generating solid returns for shareholders, and the underlying rate of 14.8% suggests the business is on track to hit its own 2026 goal once the motor finance one-off is stripped out.

p.18 important conf 95%

02

Cost-to-income ratio rising — now at risk of missing the <50% target

Operating costs rose 3% to £9,761m in 2025 (2024: £9,442m). The 2026 guidance is a cost-to-income ratio of less than 50%, with costs below £9.9bn.

Why it matters: Every pound of extra cost without matching revenue growth eats into profit; costs are close to the £9.9bn ceiling the bank set itself, leaving little room for surprises in 2026.

p.19 important conf 92%

03

Capital generation of 147 bps is strong but just misses 2026 goal

The bank generated 147 basis points of capital in 2025 (2024: 148 bps). Excluding the motor finance provision, capital generation was 178 bps. The 2026 target is above 200 bps.

Why it matters: Capital generation is the fuel for dividends and buybacks; being 53 bps short of the 200 bps target (on a reported basis) means the motor finance charge has meaningfully reduced the cash available to return to shareholders.

p.19 important conf 93%

04

Net income up 7% to £18.3bn — revenue growth is accelerating

Net income rose to £18,301m in 2025 from £17,117m in 2024, a 7% increase driven by higher net interest income and other income.

Why it matters: Growing revenue at 7% while managing costs means the bank is becoming more efficient, which is a good sign for future profit margins.

p.18 important conf 95%

05

Statutory profit up 6% to £4.76bn despite £800m motor finance hit

Statutory profit after tax was £4,757m in 2025 (2024: £4,477m), a 6% rise. Excluding the £800m motor finance commission charge, profit was £5,428m.

Why it matters: The bank grew underlying profit despite a large one-off legal charge, showing the core business is in good health and the motor finance issue is the main drag on reported numbers.

p.18 important conf 95%

06

Underlying profit up 7% to £6.78bn — core business performing well

Underlying profit was £6,777m in 2025 vs £6,343m in 2024. Excluding the motor finance charge, underlying profit was £7,577m.

Why it matters: A 7% rise in underlying profit shows the day-to-day banking business is growing strongly, giving confidence that the bank can sustain and grow shareholder returns.

p.19 important conf 95%

07

Total shareholder return was 87.9% in 2025 — share price surged

Total in-year shareholder return was 87.9%, with the share price up 79.3% year-on-year. Total distributions reached £3.9bn, including a recommended final dividend of 3.65p per share and a £1.75bn buyback.

Why it matters: An 87.9% total return in a single year is exceptional for a large UK bank, reflecting both a strong operational recovery and renewed investor confidence.

p.19 important conf 93%

08

CET1 capital ratio solid at 13.2%, well above typical minimums

The CET1 ratio was 13.2% at end of 2025, down from 13.5% in 2024, after paying a recommended dividend and announcing a £1.75bn share buyback.

Why it matters: A 13.2% CET1 ratio means the bank holds a comfortable safety buffer above regulatory requirements, so customers and counterparties face very low risk of financial stress.

p.19 useful conf 95%

09

Customer satisfaction score fell to 16.1 — a signal to watch

Relationship net promoter score dropped to 16.1 in 2025 from 19.7 in 2024. The bank links this partly to changes in its mobile banking app.

Why it matters: Falling customer satisfaction can lead to customers switching banks; if not addressed, it could slow the revenue growth the bank is counting on.

p.20 useful conf 85%

10

Digitally active users hit 23.6m — up 4% and growing steadily

The number of digitally active users rose to 23.6 million in 2025 from 22.7 million in 2024, including 21.5 million app users (up 6%).

Why it matters: More digital users means lower cost per transaction and a bigger platform to sell products, which supports the bank's plan to grow revenue without adding lots of staff.

p.20 useful conf 90%

Capital Structure & Borrowings (15)

01

Debt securities in issue total £78.3bn

Debt securities in issue at amortised cost were £78,271m at 31 December 2025 (2024: £70,834m), an increase of about £7.4bn.

Why it matters: This is the main way the bank borrows from bond markets — a rising balance means more reliance on wholesale funding, which can be sensitive to market confidence.

p.255 important conf 90%

02

CET1 capital ratio at 13.2% — above internal target

Pro forma CET1 ratio was 13.2% at 31 December 2025 (2024: 13.5% pro forma). Capital generation during the year was 147 basis points. The board's ongoing target is around 13.0%.

Why it matters: CET1 is the core safety cushion for a bank — being above target means the group has surplus capital to absorb losses and pay dividends without breaching rules.

p.57 important conf 95%

03

Motor finance provision hits £1.95bn total — big uncertainty

Total provision for motor finance commission arrangements is £1,950m at end-2025, with £800m added in 2025. Final FCA scheme rules are expected by end of March 2026.

Why it matters: Until the final rules are set, the true cost could be higher — this uncertainty could affect how much capital the group has available and whether it can maintain its dividend and buyback plans.

p.55, p.57 important conf 95%

04

Ordinary dividend raised 15% to 3.65p per share for 2025

Total 2025 ordinary dividend is 3.65p per share (interim 1.22p + proposed final 2.43p), up 15% on 2024, equivalent to about £2.2bn.

Why it matters: A rising dividend signals the board is confident about earnings and capital strength — good news for shareholders and shows the group does not expect to need the cash for emergencies.

p.57, p.134 important conf 95%

05

£1.75bn share buyback launched for 2025 returns

A new ordinary share buyback of up to £1.75bn was announced on 30 January 2026, expected to complete by 31 December 2026. The 2024 buyback of up to £1.7bn was completed on 8 December 2025 with c.2.2bn shares bought at an average 77.13p.

Why it matters: Returning £1.75bn to shareholders through buybacks on top of dividends shows strong capital generation — total 2025 returns are up to £3.9bn or about 6% of market cap.

p.57, p.134 important conf 95%

06

Subordinated liabilities stand at £9.9bn

Subordinated liabilities were £9,894m at 31 December 2025 (2024: £10,089m), held at amortised cost.

Why it matters: These are junior-ranking debts that absorb losses before senior creditors — their size tells you how much buffer exists for suppliers and depositors.

p.255 useful conf 90%

07

Customer deposits grew strongly to £496.5bn

Customer deposits rose by £13.8bn (3%) to £496,457m in 2025, with retail savings up £5.5bn and commercial banking up £8.5bn.

Why it matters: Deposits are the cheapest and most stable funding source for a bank — growing deposits reduce reliance on more expensive and volatile wholesale markets.

p.56, p.255 useful conf 95%

08

Loan-to-deposit ratio stays comfortable at 97%

The loan-to-deposit ratio was 97% at 31 December 2025, slightly up from 31 December 2024.

Why it matters: A ratio near or below 100% means the bank funds most of its lending from customer deposits, which is a sign of stable, lower-risk funding.

p.56 useful conf 90%

09

Wholesale funding rose to £99.4bn

Wholesale funding increased to £99.4bn at end-2025 (2024: £92.5bn), partly because £13.1bn of Bank of England TFSME drawings were repaid.

Why it matters: More wholesale funding means more exposure to market conditions — but the repayment of cheap central bank loans is a sign the group is returning to normal market funding.

p.56 useful conf 85%

10

Liquidity coverage ratio strong at 145%

The liquidity coverage ratio was 145% at 31 December 2025 (2024: 146%), well above regulatory requirements.

Why it matters: This means the group holds far more liquid assets than regulators require, so it can easily meet cash demands even in a stress scenario — low liquidity risk.

p.56 useful conf 95%

11

Net stable funding ratio also healthy at 124%

Net stable funding ratio was 124% at 31 December 2025 (2024: 129%), remaining comfortably above the 100% regulatory minimum.

Why it matters: This measures whether long-term assets are funded by stable, long-term sources — being above 100% means the balance sheet is well-matched and not reliant on short-term rollovers.

p.56 useful conf 90%

12

Risk-weighted assets rose £10.9bn to £235.5bn

Risk-weighted assets increased by £10.9bn to £235.5bn at 31 December 2025 (2024: £224.6bn), driven by lending growth and Retail CRD IV model increases.

Why it matters: Higher risk-weighted assets consume more capital — this is why the CET1 ratio edged down despite strong profit generation.

p.57 useful conf 90%

13

No covenant breach or waiver disclosed anywhere in report

The report contains no mention of any covenant breach, waiver request, or forced refinancing event during 2025.

Why it matters: No covenant problems means the group is comfortably within its borrowing limits and lenders have not imposed any extra conditions.

useful conf 85%

14

Tax expense of £1.9bn at 28.6% effective rate

Group recognised a tax expense of £1,904m in 2025 (2024: £1,494m), representing an effective tax rate of 28.6%. Excluding motor finance costs, the rate would have been 27.2%.

Why it matters: A higher tax bill reduces the cash available for debt repayment and dividends — the motor finance charge inflated the effective rate this year.

p.56, p.252 useful conf 95%

15

Basel 3.1 could cut risk-weighted assets by £6-8bn from Jan 2027

The group expects Basel 3.1 implementation on 1 January 2027 to result in a Day 1 risk-weighted asset reduction of £6bn to £8bn.

Why it matters: Lower risk-weighted assets free up capital — this would improve the CET1 ratio and could allow even more to be returned to shareholders in future.

p.57 useful conf 85%

Segmental Analysis (1)

01

No segmental breakdown found in the pages provided

The pages provided (206–211) cover the independent auditors' report and the consolidated income statement. No segmental note (e.g. Note 2 or 3 on operating segments) is included. Group total income for 2025 is £19,422m (2024: £18,003m; 2023: £18,629m).

Why it matters: Without a segment-by-segment breakdown, it is impossible to tell which parts of the business are growing or shrinking, so investors cannot assess where profits are actually coming from.

p.211 low conf 95%

Specialist deep panels · Structured price capture

Every figure the specialists extracted

Below the prose findings, each agent publishes a structured numeric metrics block. Segmental revenue, named KPIs with YoY %, and capital-structure metrics — direct from the source filings.

Strategic KPIs

6 flagship metrics · 6 supporting

Return on Tangible Equity (RoTE)
12.9%
+4.9% YoY
CET1 Ratio
13.2%
-2.2% YoY
Net Income
£18k
+6.9% YoY
Operating Costs
£10k
+3.4% YoY
Underlying Profit
£7k
+6.8% YoY
Capital Generation
£147
-0.7% YoY
+ Show 6 supporting KPIs
Statutory Profit After Tax
£5k
+6.3% YoY
Shareholder Distributions
£3.9bn
+8.3% YoY
Total Shareholder Return
87.9%
+314.6% YoY
Digitally Active Users
£24m
+4.0% YoY
Customer Satisfaction (Relationship NPS)
£16
-18.3% YoY
Operational Carbon Emissions
£103k
-16.4% YoY

Capital structure

Debt, cover, and dividend posture

Drawn debt
£78.3bn

Management questions · Open inquiry

What management would need to answer next

Generated by the AI from the disclosure gaps it detected. Hover or tap each card to surface the underlying evidence that triggered the question.

Verification gaps

What the filings don't disclose

High-trust analysis names its own blind spots. These are metrics the AI looked for and couldn't find — anything material to the summary needs management or independent verification.

No operating profit line was supplied in the headline figures, limiting direct margin calculation; all profitability analysis relies on underlying and statutory profit figures from agent findings.

08 · Documents

The filing trail

100 filings · Companies House

Filing distribution

SH06
70%
70
SH01
15%
15
SH03
12%
12
CS01
1
RESOLUTIONS
1
RP01AP01
1

Latest filings

2 Jul 2026 SH01 Capital allotment shares
2 Jul 2026 SH03 Capital return purchase own shares
1 Jul 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
25 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
25 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
25 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
25 Jun 2026 SH01 Capital allotment shares
25 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
25 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
24 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
24 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares
24 Jun 2026 SH06 Capital cancellation shares

Catalyst timeline

Filing pattern + upcoming windows

100 filings · 2026 → 2027
Accounts Officers Capital Resolutions Other
2026 2027 2028 Accounts due Confirmation due
2027Annual accounts

Next annual accounts due

Due at Companies House by 30 June 2027 for the period ending 31 December 2026.

2027Confirmation

Next confirmation statement due

Annual confirmation due by 20 May 2027 (made up to 6 May 2027).

Final chapter — What we found

What we found

89 STRONG FILING
Verif-AI Synthesis

Strong filing

One of the UK's most profitable banks, with growing earnings and a £60bn cash cushion — the motor finance ruling is the one date worth marking in the calendar.

FY2025 audited accounts

The five plain-English briefing questions are on Origin — read the story first, then return here for the TrustScore scorecard.

Signal Radar

How the score breaks down

Financial completeness 90/100
Operational disclosure 70/100
Compliance signals 100/100
Data confidence 70/100

Decisive findings

What decided this summary

01

FY2022 and FY2023 turnover not disclosed in Companies House filing

Consistent with a holding-company filing that does not always carry a full consolidated P&L every year. The FY2021 revenue of £37.4bn is also more than double the FY2025 figure of £19.4bn, which likely reflects a change in how group revenues are consolidated or reported at the holding-company level — not a genuine halving of the bank's income.

02

Liabilities exceed £834bn — typical for a major deposit-taking bank

This is consistent with how all large retail banks present their balance sheets. Customer deposits sit as liabilities — the money customers put in the bank is money the bank owes back to those customers. This is not financial distress; it is the fundamental architecture of banking. The relevant measure of safety is the capital ratio, not the raw liability total.

03

PAT exceeds PBT in FY2020

Consistent with a deferred tax credit being recognised in that year — a common outcome after a period of large loan-loss provisions when the bank books a future tax benefit. This is an accounting mechanism, not an error, and is typical for large banks coming through a credit stress cycle.

04

Positive signal

£1.20 of cash for every £1 of reported profit. Earnings are not an accounting story.

05

Positive signal

Unqualified Deloitte LLP opinion — the cleanest outcome an audit can produce.

06

What to watch

Return on equity stays at 12.9% but underlying rate is 14.8%. A RoTE above 12% shows the bank is generating solid returns for shareholders, and the underlying rate of 14.8% suggests the business is on track to hit its own 2026 goal once the motor finance one-off is stripped out.

07

What to watch

Net income up 7% to £18.3bn — revenue growth is accelerating. Growing revenue at 7% while managing costs means the bank is becoming more efficient, which is a good sign for future profit margins.

10 · Verification

How we know

100 filings · 10 directors · 346 pages

This report reads the full filing package — digital iXBRL where available, the filed PDF (including notes), and the Companies House register — not a single uploaded document.

Figures are as filed by the company — Companies House does not verify the accuracy of information filed. Verif-AI checks internal consistency and flags anomalies, but cannot confirm the underlying figures are correct.

Reconciliation

All 12 reconciled lines tie exactly to the audited iXBRL filing

Every balance-sheet and profit & loss line traced to where we read it in the filing. iXBRL — read straight from the company's audited machine-readable tags, so it ties exactly. PDF — read from the filed accounts document, with the supporting note cited so you can check it. Flagged — our consistency check marked it for a closer look.

Line Our figure Source in filing Reconciliation
Profit & loss · p.202
Turnover £19.4bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Profit before tax £6.7bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Tax −£1.9bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Profit after tax £4.8bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Balance sheet · p.203
Intangible assets £8.6bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Cash £60.6bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Total assets £944.1bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Deferred tax −£146m iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Provisions £2.9bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Net assets £47.9bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Share capital £5.9bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing
Profit & loss reserves £6.3bn iXBRL ✓ Ties to filing

12 read from audited iXBRL tags · 0 from the filed PDF.

What we read

Companies House filings

Total filings 100 2026 → 2026
Accounts filings 0 audited financial statements
Officer events 1 appointments + terminations
Capital events 97 share allotments + buybacks

Who we cross-checked

UK director appointment network

Directors verified 10 incl. 1 corporate officer
Records cross-referenced 27.8m UK appointments dataset
Avg failure rate 0.0% across prior appointments
Phoenix scan 0 directors flagged

Screening status

Independent checks completed

No critical risk flagsNo kill switches fired Sanctions check · ClearFCDO + OFAC + EU screen Politically-exposed persons · None foundPEP screen · 0 hits Audit opinion · UnqualifiedUnqualified ISA-700 opinion Auditor · Deloitte LLP Status · Active

Screened 1 name (registered company + officers/PSCs) against live lists: FCDO Consolidated UK Sanctions List — 57503 entries, refreshed 04 July 2026 · OFAC SDN (US Treasury) + akaName aliases + relationship graph — 39437 entries, refreshed 04 July 2026 · EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions — 29880 entries, refreshed 04 July 2026 · UK Parliament — current Members of Commons & Lords — 1441 entries, refreshed 04 July 2026.

Steps we ran

How the report was assembled

Pages read 346 PDF pages analysed
Steps run 9 0 skipped · 9 completed
AI checks 3 independent reviews
Years analysed 6 audited filings trended

Pipeline — what ran on this report

Read PDF accounts 346 pages Classify filing Extract audit notes Compliance screening Cross-check directors Build company timeline Plain-English analysis Capital structure review Processing filing

Limits and caveats

What this report doesn't claim

01

Peer benchmarks

Sector cohort comparison was withheld — only 12 comparable Verif-AI filings exist in SIC division 64, below the 30-company minimum. Percentiles are not computed from a scraped UK industry register.

02

Persons with significant control

No PSCs are recorded against this entity — typical for listed PLCs (widely held by institutional investors) and for dormant / micro-entity filings.

03

Principal risks register

The filed accounts did not surface a structured principal-risks register, or one was not extracted by the parser. Small / micro-entity filings are not required to disclose this.

Plain-English glossary · 8 terms
Profit Before Tax (PBT)
What the company earned after all its running costs, but before paying the government its share.
In this filing: Lloyds made £6.66bn PBT in FY2025 — up 11.6% from £5.97bn the year before.
Net Assets
What's left over if you sold everything the company owns and paid off everything it owes. It's the 'book value' of the business.
In this filing: Lloyds' net assets grew from £45.9bn to £47.9bn — the business is worth more on paper than it was a year ago.
Cash Conversion
How much of the reported profit actually turned into real cash in the bank. 100% means every pound of profit became a pound of cash.
In this filing: At 119.8%, Lloyds converts more cash than it reports as profit — a sign that earnings are genuine and not inflated by accounting entries.
Turnover (Revenue)
The total money the company brought in before any costs are taken out.
In this filing: Lloyds' revenue rose 7.9% to £19.4bn in FY2025, showing the business is growing its income.
Current Liabilities
Bills and debts the company must pay within the next 12 months.
In this filing: Lloyds' current liabilities sit above £834bn — typical for a major bank, which holds enormous customer deposits as liabilities on its balance sheet.
Asset Fragility
The share of a company's assets that are hard to sell or recover if the business got into trouble — things like brand value, goodwill, or long lease commitments.
In this filing: 14.2% of Lloyds' total assets fall into this category, which is a moderate and manageable level for a bank of this size.
SIC Code
A standard industry classification number that tells you what type of business a company is. SIC 64205 means 'Activities of financial holding companies'.
In this filing: This entity is the holding company sitting above the Lloyds banking brands — the legal top of the group structure.
Shareholders Funds (Equity)
The total amount that belongs to the owners of the company — what they'd get if all assets were sold and all debts paid.
In this filing: Lloyds' shareholders funds (net assets) stood at £47.9bn in FY2025, up from £45.9bn — the equity cushion is growing.