Business confidence rises to a six-month high in February
Business confidence increased 12 points to 49% in February, the highest level since August 2024, according to the latest Lloyds Business Barometer.
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Business confidence increased 12 points to 49% in February, the highest level since August 2024, according to the latest Lloyds Business Barometer.
Lloyds Banking Group, the UK’s biggest commercial supporter to the social housing sector, is partnering with Homewards, the programme spearheaded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation, that aims to make homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated.
Lloyds Banking Group has announced the appointment of Natasha Sayce-Zelem as the new Director of Digital and Business Platform across their Homes business. Natasha joins the Group from Amazon, where she served as the Global Head of Partner Engineering for Prime Video for the past four years.
Lloyds Banking Group has partnered with International Motors Limited (IML) to offer finance and leasing products for XPENG’s electric vehicles, coming soon to UK roads.
According to the latest analysis from Bank of Scotland, those buying a first home put down an average deposit of £43,537 last year, up +8% from 2023 (+66% more than a decade ago). First-time buyers typically paid £200,356 for their first home, up 4% on the year before and £72,000 more expensive than ten years ago (+57%).
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