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#Geograph Picture of the Day from #London 2012 #POTD #Photography #Architecture #NightPhotography
#CityofLondon #Lloyds #offices #HQ #night
Https://geograph.org.uk/p/3245990
Designed by Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986 Located at 1, Lime Street in London, the Lloyd's building is home to Lloyd's of London insurance market. (Not Lloyds Bank)
Free to use – please credit Oast House Archive
Hooray and other joyful noises! After two and a half months #uselessbakers #Lloyds have unlocked my account. 
#Banks and financial institutions profiting from #weapons
By Clare Carlile
Friday 7th of April 2023
High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious #ArmsCompanies. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with #NuclearWeapons in particular.
How are banks financing the arms industry?
"Banks are behind almost every industry in the world, through their loans, insurance and other kinds of financing, including the arms industry.
"By funding arms companies, banks allow them to grow and innovate – developing new forms of #lethal weapons.
"In fact, banks are behind companies involved in the very worst forms of arms, such as nuclear weapons and #ClusterMunitions, despite the latter being banned by 120 countries.
"Unsurprisingly, arms companies are not generally picky about who they sell weapons to. This means that if a bank is funding an arms company, it may well be one that is selling to oppressive regimes.
Which banks are involved in financing arms companies?
"Unfortunately, many banks still finance arms companies.
"While some have said they will not fund the most destructive weapons, lots fall far short of refusing funding to arms companies altogether. And it is not just banks that are involved in the global arms trade. Lots of other financial institutions, such as investors, are also involved.
"Over three quarters of the brands included in our ethical current accounts guide lost half a mark under Arms & Military supply for their investments. This included all the five major high street banks: #Barclays, #HSBC, #Lloyds, #NatWest and #Santander.
"Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and #Citigroup, and other financial institutions such as #Aviva and #OldMutual have been named in relation to funding cluster munitions, nuclear weapons on the sale of arms to #Yemen.
What weapons are banks funding?
Banks funding cluster munitions
“Cluster munitions are indiscriminate weapons that pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and long after an attack. They spread dozens, or even hundreds, of bomblets called submunitions over an area the size of a football stadium or even more. On impact cluster munitions kill or maim anyone that is in that area. Also, many submunitions fail to explode on impact: they remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended.'
"120 countries have signed a Convention that that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of #ClusterBombs.
"Yet, in 2018, the Cluster Munition Coalition found that financial institutions had invested almost $9 billion in companies producing cluster munitions. Citigroup and Old Mutual were both found to invest in companies involved.
"Amongst the banks named in the report, Triodos, Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland were all praised for having divestment policies in place.
"However, Aviva, Axa, Deutsche Bank, Edentree Investment Management, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were all found to have incomplete policies in place."
Ethical Consumer · Banks and financial institutions profiting from weapons | Ethical ConsumerHigh street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious arms companies. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with nuclear weapons in particular.
Unhappy with the new interest brackets on #Lloyds Business Accounts.
A cut in interest on any balance less than £1m is only going to hurt #smallbusiness and #socialclubs
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@Lazarou no surprise there. Lack of liquidity because #brexit has turned investors away from London. It took centuries to build London’s reputation and one bad Tory decision to destroy it in less than a decade. European financial centres are quietly quaffing Champagne and pi€€ing themselves laughing. #london #lloyds #footsie #stockmarket #stockexchange #aim #uk #bourse #shares #equities #pensionfunds #investors #Paris #frankfurt #dublin
" #HSBC and #NatWest accused of financing #NorthSea #oil #extraction despite pledge
Two major #UK high street #banks have been accused of continuing to finance #FossilFuel expansion in the North Sea despite signing a pledge to align their activities with the net zero #climate goal.
HSBC and NatWest have provided tens of millions in finance to #Ithaca Energy, a #British oil and #gas company that is playing a key role in plans to exploit the controversial #Rosebank oilfield north-west of the #Shetland Islands. Another high street bank, #Lloyds, also provided finance but has since sold down the debt.
A group of more than 80 organisations including #GlobalWitness, #Greenpeace and the #RainforestActionNetwork have written to the banks’ chief executives calling on them to cease funding Ithaca and to end their relationship with the company."
The Guardian · HSBC and NatWest accused of financing North Sea oil extraction despite pledge
Video games in the 70s just hit different….oh and occasionally came with rifles
#pong
#pongclone
#lloyds
#gaming
#retrogaming
#tech
#retrotechnology
Do banks and others realise that "Two factor authentication" no longer works now that text / SMS messages flash up on the screen of a computer, like this.
#bank #lloyds #scam #fraud #2FactorAuthentication
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Here is a little explanation of getting rX from #Livi and #Lloyds #LloydsPharmacy because I found it confusing and it wasn't explained to me.
If the Livi doc prescribes you something, you'll get a message in your Livi inbox saying 'Your e-prescription confirmation'. There's NO attachment! That's on purpose. There used to be a PDF rX attached, but they don't do that any more. The pharmacy will look you up via your NHS number.
If you get meds via Lloyd's, the Livi rX does go there automatically.
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Hmmm. That gives me a thought about my local pharmacist (which is an ex-LLoyds and in need of some continued custom I think).
Our banks are in a hidden relationship with the fossil fuel industry. In the last 12 months, the Big 5 #UK high street #banks - #Barclays , #HSBC , #Santander , #NatWest and #Lloyds - provided $37bn to #FossilFuels companies, helping drive #ClimateChange . But you can change this. Tell your bank to break up with fossil fuel expansion.
https://makemymoneymatter.co.uk/hiddenrelationship/
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#ClimateJustice
#pollution
#Ecology
Make My Money MatterThe Hidden Relationship - Make My Money Matter
Much like the #energy firms doing well out of record energy prices, it now seems the #banking sector is following:
#Lloyds bank has just announced greatly increased profits - up 80% year on year, for the last quarter - from raised #interestrates;
Its ever clearer a key element of the #costoflivingcrises has been a flow of funds (ultimately) to #corporate #managers & #shareholders.
But, pretty much (of course) what one expects from the UK's #rentiercapitalism!
To those who have, more is given!
"Big #banks are raking in billions, and we all pay the price – time for a new windfall tax"
- Fran Boait's excellent piece in today's Guardian -
"Another week, another corporate monopoly recording huge profits off the backs of millions struggling to pay bills, feed their families and keep the lights on. This time it’s the turn of the big banks, which are reporting record profits driven by the interest rate hikes that the Bank of England has continued to ratchet up, despite its own admission that this may do little to bring down inflation, which is driven by high fossil fuel prices.
Today HSBC reported doubling its quarterly profits to £4.3bn for the end of 2022. The big five banks – Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, NatWest and Standard Chartered – look set to post profits of £37.4bn as they reveal their earnings for 2022. These are the highest since the 2008 crash and are coming straight from households and small businesses in the form of higher mortgage payments, and increased rates on loans. Banks are also set to receive £150bn in the next six years from the Bank of England paying interest on the risk-free reserves banks hold with the central bank, an average of £25bn a year essentially just for sitting on cash.
The scale of this transfer from the public to banks is especially difficult to justify at a time when most workers are barely able to cover the essentials, and public services are facing even more cuts. And it’s not as if the banks are passing these interest rate hikes on to savers; they are hoarding them, and paying out huge bonuses after the government removed the bonus cap. Last week Barclays reported £1.8bn was paid out in bonuses, from a total of £7bn profit, and NatWest profits increased by a third to £5.1bn.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/21/banks-record-profits-windfall-tax
The GuardianBig banks are raking in billions, and we all pay the price – time for a new windfall tax