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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
28
August 2018
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 28 August
2018
re: £1bn
Share Buyback Programme Complete
28 August 2018
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP COMPLETES £1BN SHARE BUYBACK
PROGRAMME
Following the purchase of ordinary shares on 24 August 2018, Lloyds
Banking Group plc (the "Company") announces that the share buyback
programme announced on 8 March 2018 was completed in accordance
with its terms. The programme was managed by UBS AG, London Branch.
In aggregate between 8 March 2018 and 24 August 2018, the Company
repurchased 1,577,908,423 ordinary shares for an aggregate consideration of
£1bn.
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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 Corporate Media
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This document contains certain forward looking statements with
respect to the business, strategy, plans and /or results of Lloyds
Banking Group (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; changing
customer behaviour including consumer spending, saving and
borrowing habits; changes to borrower or counterparty credit
quality; instability in the global financial markets, including
Eurozone instability, instability as a result of the exit by the UK
from the European Union (EU) 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; 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 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.
UBS AG,
London Branch is acting on behalf of the Group in relation to the
programme and no-one else and will not be responsible to anyone
other than the Group for providing the protections offered to
clients of UBS AG, London Branch nor for providing advice in
relation to such programme.
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: 28
August 2018