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Lloyds Bank's Antonio Horta-Osorio set for £1.7m bonus | |
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Lloyds Bank chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio is in line for a deferred shares bonus worth £1.7m after the bank returned to profit. | |
The UK bank reported a pre-tax profit of £415m for the first time since its £20.5bn bailout. In 2012, Lloyds made a loss of £606m. | |
The bank has increased its overall pool of bonuses for all staff to £395m, up from £365m the previous year. | |
In all, 78% of that pool is in the form of shares. | |
Underlying profits in 2013 for the banking group rose 140% from £2.6bn to £6.2bn. | Underlying profits in 2013 for the banking group rose 140% from £2.6bn to £6.2bn. |
Compensation | |
The bank put aside another £1.8m in the fourth quarter of the year to cover compensation to customers for the past mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) plans. | The bank put aside another £1.8m in the fourth quarter of the year to cover compensation to customers for the past mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) plans. |
That brings the total provision made last year for PPI compensation to £3.5bn. Since new rules were brought in in 2011 to tighten up the selling of PPI, Lloyds has put aside a total of £9.8bn - more than any other bank - to cover compensation claims. | |
It said it expected to apply to the regulator in the second half of this year to pay a dividend in 2015. Investors have not had a dividend from Lloyds shares since 2008. | It said it expected to apply to the regulator in the second half of this year to pay a dividend in 2015. Investors have not had a dividend from Lloyds shares since 2008. |
UK Financial Investments, which manages the government's 33% stake, sold a 6% shareholding in the bank last September. | |
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has said he wants to sell more shares in the bank to the public before the next election in 2015. | |
Lloyds rebranded and separated its other retail banking business, TSB, in September and is negotiating with the European Commission to sell it in a public share offering this year. | Lloyds rebranded and separated its other retail banking business, TSB, in September and is negotiating with the European Commission to sell it in a public share offering this year. |