LONDON, Aug. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

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Lloyds Bank plc

2018 Half-Year Results

Member of the Lloyds Banking Group

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.

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CONTACTS

For further information please contact:

INVESTORS AND ANALYSTS Douglas Radcliffe Group Investor Relations Director 020 7356 1571 douglas.radcliffe@finance.lloydsbanking.com

Edward Sands Director of Investor Relations 020 7356 1585 edward.sands@lloydsbanking.com

Nora Thoden Director of Investor Relations 020 7356 2334 andrew.downey@finance.lloydsbanking.com

CORPORATE AFFAIRS Grant Ringshaw Director of Media Relations 020 7356 2362 grant.ringshaw@lloydsbanking.com

Matt Smith Head of Corporate Media 020 7356 3522 matt.smith@lloydsbanking.com

Copies of this news release may be obtained from Investor Relations, Lloyds Banking Group plc, 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. The full news release can also be found on the Group's website - www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

Registered office: Lloyds Banking Group plc, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH1 1YZ Registered in Scotland No. 95000