Lloyds Buys Bank of America's Credit Card Unit MBNA for $2.4 Billion
December 20 2016 - 3:11AM
Dow Jones News
By Ian Walker
LONDON-- Lloyds Banking Group PLC said Tuesday it is buying the
credit-card business of Bank of America Corp., MBNA Ltd., for
GBP1.9 billion ($2.35 billion), as part of its plan to grow its
consumer-finance business.
Bank of America decided to sell the unit, which has about five
million customers and a loan book of around GBP7 billion, in 2011
as it ditched several international credit-card businesses to
bolster its balance sheet, but the sale was axed a year later. It
relaunched the sale earlier this year.
Lloyds, which is 6.93% owned by the U.K. government, has been
trying to expand its credit-card business and executives have said
in the past that it would look at acquisitions of specific loan
portfolios.
Lloyds said it expects the acquisition to increase group revenue
by GBP650 million a year and enhance its net interest margin by 0.1
percentage point.
The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the
first half of 2017, subject to competition and regulatory approval,
the bank said.
Write to Ian Walker at ian.walker@wsj.com
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