Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[minerve 2] 26/3/2020 17:23

I don't see the difference between "bumming off" a benefit from "bumming off" an ISA but that's just me.

They both curtail the government coffers.

[maxidi] 26/3/2020 17:23

THE FINAL SOLUTION or ve haff vays of saving ze money....

[maxidi] 26/3/2020 17:20

Sorry "This all sounds like fascism" and it probably is!

[maxidi] 26/3/2020 17:18

And maybe they could include all the druggies and layabouts be included with the elderly sick. After all the elderly have mostly paid into the system, the ne'er do wells have just bummed off the tax payers.

[stonedyou] 26/3/2020 17:11

Banks Poised for Big Win on Loan Losses in Senate’s Virus Bill


Bloomberg) -- The banking industry is close to gaining relief from a much-hated accounting rule imposed after the 2008 financial crisis, thanks to a provision tucked deep in the Senate’s massive coronavirus aid bill.The legislation, which still must be voted on by the House, would likely delay until the end of the year a requirement that lenders partially write down losses when they make a loan –- a directive that banks say paints an unfair picture of their books and could stymie lending, especially during a time of economic tumult.

Lawmakers also added a separate provision that would make it easier for banks to temporarily modify loans without downgrading them to troubled status, a step meant to give flexibility for borrowers under pressure in this pandemic.

Postponement of the accounting rule -- known as the current expected credit losses method, or CECL -- would be a big win for regional lenders including Capital One Financial Corp., Regions Financial Corp. and Truist Financial Corp., which have been lobbying Congress and regulators for more than a year to get the standard changed.

Still, the banks had to head off a last-minute opposition effort by the group that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board -- which wrote the CECL rule -- that deployed investor groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to argue that the intervention was an unseemly use of the crisis to achieve a long-standing policy goal.

‘Unprecedented Measures’

[maxidi] 26/3/2020 17:00

HMMMMM... If a country wants to save billions in pensions and NHS and care homes etc. just let them catch a nasty disease and thousands will die! Ergo, billions a year saved.
Just a thought. :o(

[minerve 2] 26/3/2020 16:55

Why couldn't Boris order more ventilators from Smith Group?

Surely expanding production is better than starting from scratch.

It really is political point scoring with people's lives. Disgusting.

[k38] 26/3/2020 16:55

It's not easy to make all people happy.... we must complain no matter what. Sure, if labour was in power today Jeremy would have solve the Coronavirus overnight. Voters are stupid... are they diku.Lol....

[diku] 26/3/2020 16:52

So they turning London Excel into a make shift hospital...

[minerve 2] 26/3/2020 16:51

Same with Ashley.

[minerve 2] 26/3/2020 16:42

Good old Boris, Brexiters will do it their way. Idiots.

We were supposed to leave the EU because the EU was too liberal.
- Seems we were the ones being too liberal in the face of this virus.
We were supposed to leave the EU because we control our borders and make them tighter
- Seems our borders are the last to close with comings and goings still unhindered.


Dear me. What a bunch of losers.

[minerve 2] 26/3/2020 16:39

Trump is failing big time! Trying to distract attention from his gasping for competence. ;)

[ladeside] 26/3/2020 16:38

K38, Yes 100%. Motivated purely by greed, money and power.

As you say, a very dangerous combination.

[k38] 26/3/2020 16:36

LADESITE NOT JUST HIM BUT ALL OF THEM BEFORE AND AFTER.It's a top secret..US will act or go to war only if it's get all the benefits for themselves. That can be very dangerous of starting a new world war in the future

[mr.elbee] 26/3/2020 16:29

best cure is this..keep the frail elderly safe..and let everyone else get it..as in Oxford where half the poplulation have it..but only one in a thousand have any symptoms...no deaths

I tell you, these doctors are witch doctors..

[k38] 26/3/2020 16:29

Wrong personal (benefits) decisions and desperate measures.. will never happens.

[aljm] 26/3/2020 16:28

any danger you have facts on that ?

[ladeside] 26/3/2020 16:27

No, Trump just magics up charges against anyone he doesn't like and any regime he doesn't like.

He himself is more corrupt than Maduro or any other "commy" out there......

[aljm] 26/3/2020 16:24

very interesting post k38 "MADURO, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING ", is the swamp starting to be drained ?

[k38] 26/3/2020 16:19

More b.sh from Brussels URSULA VON DER LEYENPresident of the European commission..Blame Europe for acting and looking out for themselves...BUT she didn't mention (name and shame) that it was Germany FIRST who block exports and help to the rest of Europe. .

[k38] 26/3/2020 16:12

US latest.. b.sh US OFFER A REWARD.."MADURO, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA, WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING "