Our purpose and strategy
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper.
We're a leading UK-based financial services group with over 325 years' history and a unique family of household brands. Our purpose at Lloyds Banking Group is Helping Britain Prosper.
"The Group demonstrated sustained strength in financial performance in 2025, including in the final quarter, with continued balance sheet and income growth, as well as strong cost discipline and credit performance. This enables total shareholder distributions of c.£3.9 billion for the year."
Charlie Nunn, Group Chief Executive
£18.30bn
Net income
(+7% YoY)
£9.76bn
Operating costs
(+3% YoY)
£4.76bn
Statutory profit after tax
(+6% YoY)
5% / 3%
Loan / deposit growth
(£22.0bn lending growth / £13.8 bn deposit growth)
12.9%
Return on tangible equity
(14.8% excl Q3 motor charge)
£3.9bn
Total capital return
(3.65p total dividend per share and £1.75bn buyback)
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We’re creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper – it’s what drives us, what makes us different and defines how we profitably grow.
We have an important role to play in creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, by shaping finance as a force for good.
>£17bn
lending to more than 70,000 first time buyers in 2025
>£35bn
new finance will be made available for UK businesses in 2026
>£22bn
funding to support the social housing sector since 2018
70,000
charities supported through our charitable Foundations
With over 325 years' heritage across our family of brands, we serve and support the evolving needs of our customers and clients across the UK.
Our culture is more than just a statement. It's who we are, how we think, what we value and how we behave.
Being based in our Bristol hub has enabled Sally to have the best of both worlds: a fast-paced career and a great lifestyle in the South West.
Dan is a Lead Software Engineer in the Group's devices lab, with a lifelong career in app development and AI.
Repi works as a solicitor for the Group and is also a one of our Ethnicity Network's role models as well as the chair of the Ethnicity Working Group for the Legal and Secretariat Division.