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
16 August 2021
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 16 August
2021
re: Group
Chief Executive
16 August 2021
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP: GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE
As previously announced on 24 February 2021, Charlie Nunn's
appointment as Group Chief Executive and Executive Director will
commence today.
The Lloyds Banking Group plc board would like to thank William
Chalmers for his successful stewardship as Interim Group Chief
Executive over the last three and a half months. William will
now revert to focus on his role as Chief Financial Officer and,
together with the Board, looks forward to working with
Charlie.
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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 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 or
current facts, including statements about the Group's or its
directors' and/or management's beliefs and expectations, are
forward looking 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 the EU-UK Trade and
Cooperation Agreement, instability as a result of 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 and any further possible referendum on Scottish
independence; 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, 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 UK's exit from the EU; 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 laws, 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 on Form 20-F
filed by Lloyds Banking Group plc with the US Securities and
Exchange Commission (the SEC), which is available on the SEC's
website at www.sec.gov, for a discussion of certain factors and
risks, together with examples of forward looking statements. 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: 16
August 2021