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Black horse formed from the integration of lloyds udt and chartered trust footnote 1.
Lloyds banking group horse. Uk finance giant lloyds banking group is to slice off a portion of its 3bn digital transformation investment and feed it to google as part of a five year agreement. Black horse limited is the united kingdoms leading provider of motor finance. In fact the story of the black horse parallels the story of british banking itself. It supports 5000 motor dealers and last year alone.
Today black horse is the uks leading provider of motor finance with a range of motor loans and hire purchase products. Halifax and bank of scotland. Then it was adopted by barnetts hoares co. It was formed in july 2001 as a wholly owned subsidiary of lloyds banking group but its origins can be traced back to 1922the company helps over 200000 customers every year to finance new and used cars caravans motorhomes or motorbikes through their network of over 5000 dealers.
Black horse is a specialist division of the lloyds banking group having previously been part of lloyds tsb. Together they allow the group to serve the breadth of financial needs of a diverse range of millions of customers every day. We are a financial services group with millions of uk customers with a presence in nearly every community. The first recorded use of the black horse sign was in 1677 in lombard.
Lent to customers per annum footnote 2. Our portfolio covers banking insurance retirement planning and every aspect of financial need for individuals and businesses. Welcome to lloyds banking group. Bank of scotland the second oldest bank in the uk behind.
But icons are not created overnight. Lloyds bank inherited the famous black horse symbol in 1884. Today black horse is the uks leading provider of motor finance. The sign of the black horse had originally hung above the shop of lombard street goldsmith humphrey stokes from as early as 1677.
Lloyds banking group is best known for its portfolio of financial services brands that features many of the uks best known brands. The black horse like many banking signs and symbols was inherited from goldsmiths the forerunners of our modern banks. Halifax was founded in 1853 perhaps unsurprisingly in the town of halifax in west yorkshire. The signs also provided a means of identification in a largely illiterate society.
In the 17th century there were no street numbers and so businesses used decorative signs to attract customers. The logo dates back to at least 1677 when it was used by londons lombard street goldsmiths the forerunners of todays modern banks. The deal will see the. This sign dates back to the 17th century when it was used by a goldsmith in the city of london.
Lloyds adopted the black horse with the take over of lombard street bankers barnetts hoares co. Black horse provides motor retail and asset finance to hundreds of thousands of customers every year.