Lloyds Banking Group has hired Central Bank deputy governor Matthew Elderfield as its director for conduct and compliance. Photo: Bloomberg

Lloyds Banking Group has hired Central Bank deputy governor Matthew Elderfield as its director for conduct and compliance. Mr Elderfield(...)

Lloyds profit jumped almost threefold in the first quarter as impairments for souring loans dropped. Photo: Bloomberg

Lloyds, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, said profit jumped almost threefold in the first quarter as impairments for souring loans dropped by(...)

Central Bank deputy governor Matthew Elderfield reportedly poised to take post in Lloyds. Photo: David Sleator/The Irish Times

Lloyds Banking Group, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, is in talks to hire Central Bank deputy governor Matthew Elderfield, according to a re(...)

EU internal markets commissioner Michel Barnier with Minister for Finance Michael Noonan after the Ecofin ministers’ meeting at Dublin Castle on April 12th. Mr Barnier said: “We need diversity, more competition, less cosiness, less familiarity between the auditors and the companies they audit.” Photograph: Mac Innes Photography/Getty Images

Accountancy firms face “fundamental reform”, EU internal markets commissioner Michel Barnier has warned, as Brussels prepares to intensify effo(...)

Accountancy giant KPMG is facing a potential investigation over the audit work that gave HBOS a clean bill of health in the run-up to its collapse. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Wire

Accountancy giant KPMG is facing a potential investigation in the UK over the audit work that gave HBOS a clean bill of health in the run-(...)

Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby

Sir James Crosby must be given some credit for volunteering to forgo a chunk of his lucrative HBOS pension and, in an unprecedented move yesterday,(...)

UK business secretary Vince Cable has asked officials to look at evidence against three former directors of HBOS as the first part of the process required to strip people of access to company directorships. Photograph: David Sleator

UK business secretary Vince Cable is studying whether three former directors of HBOS can be banned from serving as company directors after bein(...)

The British Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards report said estimated impairments in Ireland between 2008 and 2011 totalled £10.9 billion,equivalent to 36 per cent of Halifax’s loan book at the end of 2008. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Bailed-out British lender HBOS was so badly run it would have failed even without the 2008 financial crisis and the regulator should consider b(...)

Lloyds Banking Group is considering the sale of its heavily impaired Irish commercial real estate loan book. David Cheskin/PA Wire

Lloyds Banking Group is considering the sale of about €650 million of Irish real estate loans as the lender extracts itself from Western Europe(...)

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