SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
01
April 2020
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
plc
(Translation of registrant's name into
English)
5th Floor
25 Gresham Street
London
EC2V 7HN
United Kingdom
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports
under
cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form
20-F..X.. Form 40-F
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information
contained
in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to
the
Commission
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
Yes
No ..X..
If
"Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the
registrant in connection with Rule
12g3-2(b):
82- ________
Index
to Exhibits
Item
No.
1 Regulatory News Service Announcement, dated 01 April
2020
re: Update on Dividend Payments
This announcement contains inside
information
31 March
2020
UPDATE ON DIVIDEND PAYMENTS
In order to help us to serve the needs of businesses and households
through the extraordinary challenges presented by Covid-19, the
board has decided that until the end of 2020 we will undertake no
quarterly or interim dividend payments, accrual of dividends, or
share buybacks on ordinary shares. In addition, in response
to a request from the PRA and to preserve additional capital for
use in serving our clients, the board has agreed to cancel payment
of the final 2019 dividend in relation to ordinary shares.
Accordingly, resolution 17 in relation to the declaration of
that dividend will be withdrawn from the AGM, scheduled to take
place on 21 May 2020. Our board will decide on any dividend
policy and amounts at year-end 2020.
The person responsible for arranging the release of this
announcement is Douglas Radcliffe, Group Investor Relations
Director.
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For further information:
Investor Relations
Douglas
Radcliffe
+44 (0) 20 7356 1571
Group Investor Relations Director
Corporate Affairs
Matt
Smith
+44 (0) 20 7356 3522
Head of Media Relations
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This document contains certain forward looking statements within
the meaning of Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, with respect to the business, strategy, plans and/or
results of Lloyds Banking Group plc together with its subsidiaries
(the Group) and its current goals and expectations relating to its
future financial condition and performance. Statements that are not
historical facts, including statements about the Group's or its
directors' and/or management's beliefs and expectations, are
forward looking statements. Words such as 'believes',
'anticipates', 'estimates', 'expects', 'intends', 'aims',
'potential', 'will', 'would', 'could', 'considered', 'likely',
'estimate' and variations of these words and similar future or
conditional expressions are intended to identify forward looking
statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such
statements. Examples of such forward looking statements include,
but are not limited to: projections or expectations of the Group's
future financial position including profit attributable to
shareholders, provisions, economic profit, dividends, capital
structure, portfolios, net interest margin, capital ratios,
liquidity, risk-weighted assets (RWAs), expenditures or any other
financial items or ratios; litigation, regulatory and governmental
investigations; the Group's future financial performance; the
level and extent of future impairments and write-downs; statements
of plans, objectives or goals of the Group or its management
including in respect of statements about the future business and
economic environments in the UK and elsewhere including, but not
limited to, future trends in interest rates, foreign exchange
rates, credit and equity market levels and demographic
developments; statements about competition, regulation,
disposals and consolidation or technological developments in the
financial services industry; and statements of assumptions
underlying such statements. By their nature, forward looking
statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to
events and depend upon circumstances that will or may occur in the
future. Factors that could cause actual business, strategy, plans
and/or results (including but not limited to the payment of
dividends) to differ materially from forward looking statements
made by the Group or on its behalf include, but are not limited to:
general economic and business conditions in the UK and
internationally; market related trends and developments;
fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, stock
markets and currencies; any impact of the transition from IBORs to
alternative reference rates; the ability to access sufficient
sources of capital, liquidity and funding when required; changes to
the Group's credit ratings; the ability to derive cost savings and
other benefits including, but without limitation as a result of any
acquisitions, disposals and other strategic transactions; the
ability to achieve strategic objectives; changing customer
behaviour including consumer spending, saving and borrowing habits;
changes to borrower or counterparty credit quality; concentration
of financial exposure; management and monitoring of conduct risk;
instability in the global financial markets, including Eurozone
instability, instability as a result of uncertainty surrounding the
exit by the UK from the European Union (EU) and as a result of such
exit and the potential for other countries to exit the EU or the
Eurozone and the impact of any sovereign credit rating downgrade or
other sovereign financial issues; political instability including
as a result of any UK general election; technological changes and
risks to the security of IT and operational infrastructure,
systems, data and information resulting from increased threat of
cyber and other attacks; natural, pandemic and other disasters,
adverse weather and similar contingencies outside the Group's
control; inadequate or failed internal or external processes or
systems; acts of war, other acts of hostility, terrorist acts and
responses to those acts, geopolitical, pandemic or other such
events; risks relating to climate change; changes in laws,
regulations, practices and accounting standards or taxation,
including as a result of the exit by the UK from the EU, or a
further possible referendum on Scottish independence; changes to
regulatory capital or liquidity requirements and similar
contingencies outside the Group's control; the policies, decisions
and actions of governmental or regulatory authorities or courts in
the UK, the EU, the US or elsewhere including the implementation
and interpretation of key legislation and regulation together with
any resulting impact on the future structure of the Group; the
ability to attract and retain senior management and other employees
and meet its diversity objectives; actions or omissions by the
Group's directors, management or employees including industrial
action; changes to the Group's post-retirement defined benefit
scheme obligations; the extent of any future impairment charges or
write-downs caused by, but not limited to, depressed asset
valuations, market disruptions and illiquid markets; the value and
effectiveness of any credit protection purchased by the Group; the
inability to hedge certain risks economically; the adequacy of loss
reserves; the actions of competitors, including non-bank financial
services, lending companies and digital innovators and disruptive
technologies; and exposure to regulatory or competition scrutiny,
legal, regulatory or competition proceedings, investigations or
complaints. Please refer to the latest Annual Report or Form 20-F
filed by Lloyds Banking Group plc with the US Securities and
Exchange Commission for a discussion of certain factors and risks
together with examples of forward looking statements. Lloyds
Banking Group may also make or disclose written and/or oral forward
looking statements in reports filed with or furnished to the US
Securities and Exchange Commission, Lloyds Banking Group annual
reviews, half-year announcements, proxy statements, offering
circulars, prospectuses, press releases and other written materials
and in oral statements made by the directors, officers or employees
of Lloyds Banking Group to third parties, including financial
analysts. Except as required by any applicable law or regulation,
the forward looking statements contained in this document are made
as of today's date, and the Group expressly disclaims any
obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or
revisions to any forward looking statements contained in this
document to reflect any change in the Group's expectations with
regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances
on which any such statement is based. The information, statements
and opinions contained in this document do not constitute a public
offer under any applicable law or an offer to sell any securities
or financial instruments or any advice or recommendation with
respect to such securities or financial instruments.
Signatures
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
LLOYDS
BANKING GROUP plc
(Registrant)
By: Douglas
Radcliffe
Name: Douglas
Radcliffe
Title: Group
Investor Relations Director
Date: 01
April 2020