Newsletters From BTU

The announcement today on the new JV terms and conditions is long on jam tomorrow but short on detail. What have HR been doing since October to produce this set of terms and conditions? The terms announced today could have been put together in one week and could have...

Apparently the Bank’s investment in training - which most staff have not seen any evidence of yet and are probably not likely to before they are made redundant through automation and digitisation  - is to make staff “useful” for the future. This is according to...

When addressing a group of Wealth Management Advisers on the Joint Venture (JV) with Schroders, one regional manager said: “the hounds will be set free”. He then explained that because there would be less regulatory scrutiny and supervision of the new business by the...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) plans to bypass its current IT system and replace it with Thought Machine’s cloud based core-banking platform called “Vault”. LBG recently invested £11 million for a 10% stake in Thought Machine, a Fintech set up a few years ago by a group...

One of the main reasons for replacing the Group’s current core-banking platform with a digitally native platform like Thought Machine is to counteract the effects of open banking and the rise of fintech and Third Party Providers (TPPs). The rules require UK banks to...

The 2019 pay pot is 2.6% compared to the current rate of inflation of 3.2%. On the Group’s own figures that means the vast majority of staff will yet again get pay increases less than the cost of living. That at a time when the Group posted a statutory profit after...

Given the precarious nature of the financial advice business and the growth model proposed by Lloyds Banking Group for the new Joint Venture, the legal status of the Lloyds Bank enhanced severance terms and job security policy is extremely important. The issue is a...