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🆕 REPORT: Our monthly gauge of confidence levels among UK businesses Senior Economist Hann-Ju Ho says, “Business confidence remained steady this month, suggesting that UK companies may have been waiting to see the impact of government decisions at home and globally. Despite this, today’s data continues to reflect a positive growth trend in the UK economy. With confidence maintaining last month’s high, business leaders are optimistic, noting that investing in their development and workforce will position them well to seize future growth opportunities." Read the full report or save this post and come back to it later 🔖 #EconomicOutlook #UKEconomy #UKBusiness

David Atkinson, UK Head of Manufacturing, SME & Mid-Corporates considers how greater automation can make UK manufacturers more competitive.

UKREiiF Spotlight On: Nicola Haigh, Head of Real Estate and Housing for Business and Commercial Banking at Lloyds. 🔎 Nicola has extensive experience in the SME Real Estate and Housing marketplace. She leads a team of specialist Relationship Managers and Directors that spans the entire country. Nicola's passionate about supporting SME developers and investors. She helps them in overcoming challenges such as planning delays, rising costs, inflation, and changing energy-efficiency targets. Supporting our BCB Real Estate customers to improve standards, grow, acquire and get building is central to our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper in the sector. Nicola's looking forward to attending UKREiiF this year. She'll join the Lloyds team to hear from clients, investors, and developers as they discuss important topics. Come meet her and the rest of the Lloyds team at the 'Lloyds Building Futures Pavilion' from 20 to 22 May. Stay tuned to explore our next 'UKREiiF Spotlight On' as well as Spotlights on colleagues from Lloyds Corporate & Institutional We look forward to connecting and engaging in conversations with industry leaders, business owners and innovators in and around our ‘𝗟𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗱𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻’. Find out more about our support for Real Estate and Housing here: http://spr.ly/6048FE2In

Join our panel of experts as we digest the performance of the UK economy across the year so far and how both consumers and businesses are responding to domestic and global political developments. Our panel: Paul Kharbanda - Head of Sales - London & South James Miller - Head of Rates Sales Tom Stoddart - Managing Director, Head of Markets Sales Gary Cook - Group Head of Public Policy Click attend and receive a notification to join ⬇️

Want to ensure repeat customers have a frictionless shopping experience at your online checkout? Payment tokenisation can help. Here are 5 things you need to know about payment tokenisation. To learn more visit 🔗 http://spr.ly/60000QcWn

Today we attended Driving International Trade Conference in London as a headline sponsor.    Paul Kempster, our MD of Head of Commercial Banking Coverage joined Shevaun Haviland to share his thoughts on navigating new market opportunities and Lloyds' commitment to supporting businesses through trade finance.    Thank you to everyone who joined us! It was a fantastic occasion to meet with other policymakers and business leaders.     British Chambers of Commerce

Melinda Roylett, our MD of Lloyds Merchant Services attended The Merchant Payments Ecosystem Event (MPE) held in Berlin on 18th - 20th of March. She shared how we are helping UK businesses from micro, SMB to large enterprises tackle payment challenges by putting customer experience at the heart of everything we do.   During a panel session with Neira Jones, Darren Laws - Visa, Georgios Kolovos - NVIDIA, and Joerg S. Netflix., they discussed how hyper-personalised experiences are transforming consumer expectations and driving the future of payments.   Our Lloyds Merchant Services team took home the MPE award for Best Omnichannel Payment Solution!

We're delighted to be at Naidex today and tomorrow, talking about how we are supporting disabled-owned businesses such as Cool Crutches & Walking Sticks and Human Beauty. If you're attending, come and chat to us at stand BWB-J190. Or to find out more on how we are working with partners to help break down barriers that exist in the finance sector visit our disability hub. 🔗 http://spr.ly/60050lnIJ

Just one in four of the manufacturing sector’s workforce are women, and this has remained the same for the last 20 years. This has to change and we’re working with our partners at MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre, to drive our shared ambition to strengthen support for girls and women in manufacturing. 

🎧 Hear from Paul Kempster at DITC25 share his insights, strategies and solutions to help businesses navigate international trade and seize new opportunities.