Blueprint
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 May
2019
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)
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by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports
under
cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
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Commission
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
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82- ________
Index
to Exhibits
Item
No.
1 Regulatory News Service Announcement, dated 01 May
2019
re: Group Announces Revised Capital Guidance
1 May 2019
GROUP ANNOUNCES REVISED CAPITAL GUIDANCE FOLLOWING CONFIRMATION OF
SYSTEMIC RISK BUFFER BY THE PRA
As announced this morning by the Prudential Regulation Authority
(PRA), the Group has been notified that the Systemic Risk Buffer
for the Group's Ring Fenced Bank will be 200 basis points which
equates to 170 basis points at a Group level. This is less than the
210 basis points previously included in the Group's capital
guidance following action to manage the size of the Ring Fenced
Bank. This decrease in the Systemic Risk Buffer follows the net 30
basis point reduction in the Group's Pillar 2A, as announced to the
market in 2018 and with effect from 1 January 2019. Given these
decreases, the Board's view of the level of CET1 capital targeted
by the Group has reduced from around 13 per cent to around 12.5 per
cent, plus a management buffer of around 1 per
cent.
The Group remains strongly capital generative and continues to
expect ongoing capital build of 170 to 200 basis points per
annum. The Group has a progressive and sustainable ordinary
dividend policy and the Board will continue to give consideration
to the distribution of surplus capital at the end of the
year.
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For further information:
Investor Relations
Douglas
Radcliffe
+44 (0) 20 7356 1571
Group Investor Relations Director
douglas.radcliffe@lloydsbanking.com
Corporate Affairs
Matt
Smith
+44 (0) 20 7356 3522
Head of Media Relations
matt.smith@lloydsbanking.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This document contains certain forward looking statements with
respect to the business, strategy, plans and /or results of 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. 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; 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; 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 transition from IBORs to alternative
reference rates; 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 with the US
Securities and Exchange Commission 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: 01
May 2019