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| Lloyds sets aside extra £1bn for PPI mis-selling | Lloyds sets aside extra £1bn for PPI mis-selling |
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| Lloyds Banking Group has set aside a further £1bn to pay compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). | Lloyds Banking Group has set aside a further £1bn to pay compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). |
| The extra provision was expected after the deadline for PPI claims was extended to June 2019 | The extra provision was expected after the deadline for PPI claims was extended to June 2019 |
| The announcement came as the bank announced that pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September fell 15% to £811m. | The announcement came as the bank announced that pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September fell 15% to £811m. |
| Total income for the quarter rose by 1% to £4.27bn. | |
| Lloyds is 9% state-owned, but earlier this month the government said it was scrapping plans to sell its remaining shares in the bank to members of the public. | |
| It is now planning to sell its shares via a "trading plan", with small tranches of shares sold to institutional investors. | |
| The extra provision for PPI claims comes on top of the £16bn Lloyds has already set aside to tackle PPI mis-selling. It is the bank worst affected by the PPI mis-selling scandal. | |
| In the third quarter, it also took a charge of £150m to cover the cost of other "conduct issues" - mostly related to the sale of packaged bank accounts. | |
| The bank said its net interest margin - the difference between the interest it gets from borrowers and what it pays savers - was 2.69% for the third quarter, down from 2.74% in the second quarter, "partly reflecting the base rate change in early August". | |
| That was when interest rates were cut to 0.25% from 0.5% as the policymakers at the Bank of England attempted to stimulate the UK economy in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. | |
| Low interest rates have a negative impact on banks' performance, because they make less from long-term loans. |