Banks could easily stumble over Brexit and buybacks
There is an old Lloyds Bank television commercial featuring those darlings of the 1980s sitcom, Jan Francis and Nigel Havers.
Francis’s character has just bought a house from Havers and the ad has the pair bumping into each other at the supermarket checkout. The encounter prompts Francis to give Havers a few unsolicited personal finance lessons, by explaining how her new Lloyds banking card means she has to write fewer cheques (it’s debatable whether the ad is dated more by the plot or the actors).
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