Lloyds at 300: How a British Bank Outlived Empires, Pirates, and Its Own Scandals—And Still Charges Commission
LONDON – Somewhere between the third croissant and the fourth PowerPoint slide, the assembled dignitaries at Lloyds Banking Group’s tree-shaded headquarters remembered to mention that the institution had turned 300. The cake arrived in the shape of an outsized ship—an ironic confection, given that the City of London itself now resembles a vessel drifting without…