53/08 5 June 2008
LLOYDS TSB Files 2007 Annual report on form-20f
Lloyds TSB has today filed its 2007 Annual Report on Form 20F. A copy of this report is available on the Group website at www.investorrelations.lloydstsb.com.
As previously reported in our 2007 Results published on 22 February 2008, the Group has provided information relating to certain historic US dollar payments to a number of authorities including The Office of Foreign Assets Control, the US Department of Justice and the New York County District Attorney's office. The Group is involved in ongoing discussions with these and other authorities with respect to agreeing a resolution of their investigations. Whilst the Group does not expect the final outcome to have a material adverse effect on its financial position, discussions have advanced towards resolution since the year-end and accordingly the Group has provided £180 million in respect of this matter in the first half of 2008.
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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This announcement contains forward looking statements with respect to the business, strategy and plans of the Lloyds TSB Group, its current goals and expectations relating to its future financial condition and performance. By their nature, forward looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. The Group's actual future results may differ materially from the results expressed or implied in these forward looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including UK domestic and global economic and business conditions, risks concerning borrower credit quality, market related risks such as interest rate risk and exchange rate risk in its banking business and equity risk in its insurance businesses, changing demographic trends, unexpected changes to regulation, the policies and actions of governmental and regulatory authorities in the UK or jurisdictions outside the UK, including other European countries and the US, exposure to legal proceedings or complaints, changes in customer preferences, competition and other factors. Please refer to the latest Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of such factors. The forward looking statements contained in this announcement are made as at the date of this announcement, and the Group undertakes no obligation to update any of its forward looking statements.