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Name: Business Banking
Rating: 2.56 (144 reviews)

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2.60

Based on 144 reviews, last reviewed 2nd Apr 2025

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Latest highest rating:

5

Great experience It’s been a very great experience since I started banking with Lloyds Bank, I get my credit score updated every week for no cost and it’s been really ... Read more Reviewed on: 2nd April 2025

Latest lowest rating:

1

There business banking account is shocking compared... There business banking account is shocking compared to others and they charge £8.50 a month which is most than others , zero interest given , zero too... Read more Reviewed on: 27th October 2024

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Lloyds Bank Business Banking reviews (144)

Review of the Lloyds Bank, Business Banking:

A example of one of its senior managers behaviour

Michael Huke a senior manager at Lloyds Bank HQ Bristol, a record of his nefarious activities, each reported to Lloyds Bank and Avon and Somerset police where applicable, NO action has been taken by either party. Please view ‘Michael Huke’ on YouTube and witness his disgraceful conduct. 1. CCTV of Michael Huke shouting abuse and videoing his neighbours within their premises. 2. Assaulting neighbours physically and verbally, captured on CCTV and audio. 3. Offensive and unlawful TEXTs sent by Michael Huke…….. a) TEXT ‘My secretary gives me a blow job when I’m allocating bonuses b) TEXT ‘Kompany and Fernandinho (Manchester City footballers) are Northern black c*nts’. c) TEXT ‘Antonio Horta Osario (Lloyds Bank CEO) has no balls because he was off sick at the priory for 6 months’ suffering from a nervous breakdown. d) TEXT claiming ‘He would wind up 2 neighbours (he was hostile towards) so much, he would let them Twat him and get them done’. Plus more TEXTs of a similar grossly offensive nature. 4. When asked by friends the wealth of a landlord neighbour (that he was in conflict with), he answered ‘neither the landlord or his wife bank with Lloyds Banking Group and never have had accounts with us’. Within his ‘position of trust’ how did he determine that information, had they banked with Lloyds he would surely have probed their accounts? 5. He was prosecuted, when caught on covert CCTV, watching his dog defecate outside a neighbour’s property and not clear it up. 6. He signed an ABC (Acceptable Behaviour Contract) issued to him by South Gloucestershire Council ASBO team. 7. Attacked a 71 year old man because he’d parked briefly on the road outside his house; captured on CCTV, video/audio recorded and independently witnessed (view on YouTube). 8. The 71 year old victim of the attack and one of the witness’s (who’d videoed the attack) were arrested and held in custody (several months after the video of the attack had been uploaded onto YouTube, (by persons unknown), charged with uploading the video, (which was factual and not menacing in character) as it discredited Michael Huke in front of his staff and jeopardised his job at Lloyds Bank HQ Bristol. No charge was pursued. This arrest was almost certainly influenced by Lloyds Banking Group, Freemasons, a police sergeant friend who lives nearby or corrupt members of Avon and Somerset Police, possibly a combination of them all. Since the above he works from home one or two days each week spending time at the sports centre and maintaining his property and garden! These incidents plus many more have taken place over a 3 year period; all reported to Lloyds Banking Group, yet Michael Huke is still an employee of Lloyds Bank? You’re views, opinions, advice would be greatly appreciated. Reviewed on: 15th July 2019

Stay Away From Lloyds Bank!

Sincerely recommend you DON'T USE LLOYDS BANK!! 1. Wait for a month after opened the account to get the card. The reason was the staffs forgot to order the card. 2.Really bad service. The supporters on the phone are really impatient, hang up the phone when the signal is not good or when they don't hear you clearly. And the staffs in the brunch are really unhelpful, always ask customers to wait without giving help. 3. Locked my account without any reason after I transformed money from another bank. 4. Sent me the invalid activation code for twice. Overall, if you don't what any trouble, stay away from lloyds bank! Reviewed on: 22nd November 2020

Appalling service and lack of knowledge about anything

Kept on phone for 45 mins trying to sort out not being able to pay bills by bank transfer, spoke to 3 different people, had to go through security questions with each person and had to explain issue from scratch to each person I spoke to. Couldn’t help me and told me to go to my local branch even though it’s lockdown and I am trying to avoid going out! ‘By your side’ advert couldn’t be more wrong! Reviewed on: 17th November 2020

Fine unless you need advice!

Fine if you've got basic requirements, but no good for advice or specialist products. Haven't' been able to help with lending or insurance, when it was been relatively easy to go elsewhere. Reviewed on: 17th August 2020

Terrible

Has to be the worst of the big 4. Just a Terrible unhelpful service. Reviewed on: 13th July 2020

Lloyds Commercial Banking

I remember when online banking started about twenty years ago. Lloyds Commercial banking website it like going back to that time. Incredibly cumbersome, appallingly designed, difficult to navigate, etc. The staff are incredibly unhelpful. Generally disinterested and will try and palm you off with another number as soon as they can, and the wait times will eat up your day. All in all, a bad enough service to actually make me go and write a review so that others can avoid. Reviewed on: 2nd July 2020

Relationship mangers are inept and have zero business sense

I've banked with Lloyds for business for a few years now, had terrible experiences of trying to get anything done. Their relationship manager and clients services team cannot complete the most simple of jobs. I do wonder if their Manchester office staff have some kind of drug addiction problem. I've had enough, have quit and moved my account. Reviewed on: 27th June 2020

Won't let me transfer money between both my accounts!

I have 2 accounts and Lloyds is the worst bank. It wont allow me to transfer my own savings to my own classic account! I've had to make 3 phone calls to 3 different departments and in the end they told me I have to go to the bank and sign for it so they can transfer it. Awful service, it's my own money! Reviewed on: 30th May 2020

Horrendous! Do not bank with them!

They really are the most horrendous bank! We have baked with them for two years. We were outsourcing our payroll and decided to bring it in house. We recruited a finance manager and completed and sent the forms for her to have full delegate access for two of our four accounts. The forms were received by Lloyds 9 weeks ago. 4 weeks ago we tried to set up workers but it turned out both full delegate accounts were set up as view only. I called and they checked the forms and confirmed they had been completed correctly but not setup their end properly. They explained that this would be logged with the Internet banking department and they would resolve. 1 week later... still no news and I had to call.... they apologized and 2 days later 1 account was set up correctly but the other one still wrong. I called again, they said it would be resolved.... 2 days later no news. I called again and they told me they didn't receive the form.... interesting as they were in the same envelope and previously confirmed both forms were completed properly. At this point I logged all the issues as an official complaint. 3 days later still no news so called again.... by this point we had to pay the outsauce company to run the payroll for another week costing us £150. I was told the form was filled in wrong for the remaining account despite been assured they were both correct 2 weeks before. They said they would need to email me another form. Next day still no form... another call and they finally emailed the form. This was a complete joke as due to lockdown we now had to complete and post to each director. The good news (or so we thought), was they called and said if we email the competed form over they would change the account. So we did this and emailed over n the Friday 15th that night they called and said the copy wasn't good enough (it was completely fine but we did another copy and i told photos and resent on Saturday. Monday..... still no news, emailed again, no response, emailed again today (Tuesday)..... still no news..... another payroll missed. Dont go with this bank!! They are the worst bank I have ever dealt with. We are in the process of moving.... this is how they treat business with £5million turnover! Reviewed on: 19th May 2020

Worst bank in the UK possibly the world.

Tried so very hard to open a business account with Lloyds Bank. Spent almost six weeks and got absolutely nowhere with them. Tried calling branch. Hopeless. Mostly young inexperienced youngsters with no knowledge at all of banking or business in the real world. Had money and cheques waiting to pay in but could not get them moving. One excuse after another. No email service available. No direct lines available. No letters answered. Only call centres stuffed with equally useless people who want to get rid of you as fast as possible to hit their customer targets for the day. After forty five years experience in business banking I can honestly say this is the worst bank not only in the UK but the world. Do not touch these amateurs with a barge pole. I would not be surprised if they go bankrupt very soon as they are thoroughly useless and incompetent and would not know how to make a profit or a decent business decision if it was staring them in the face. After six weeks of trying I gave up and went to another bank who managed in four hours something Lloyds and 17 members of its staff could not manage in over a month and a half. Steer well clear of this bunch of jokers and do not trust them with anything or anything they tell you. Reviewed on: 6th May 2020

Bereavement

What is the point of having a shiny website and service if you phone it following your mothers death and get a person who tell you constantly you are being rude and when I made a complaint he told me I had to wait lol do yourselves a favour and bank with another I will move my account Reviewed on: 16th February 2020

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