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EXHIBIT 2(d)
Description of Securities Registered Under Section 12 of the Exchange Act
As of December 31, 2020, Lloyds Banking Group plc (“LBG,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”) had the following series of securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTicker symbolName of each exchange on which registered
Ordinary shares of nominal value 10 pence each, represented by American Depositary Shares    
The New York Stock Exchange
4.344% Subordinated Securities due in 2048    
LYG48AThe New York Stock Exchange
5.300% Subordinated Securities due 2045    
LYG45The New York Stock Exchange
3.574% Senior Notes due in 2028 (callable in 2027)    
LYG28AThe New York Stock Exchange
4.375% Senior Notes due 2028*    
LYG28BThe New York Stock Exchange
4.550% Senior Notes due 2028    
LYG28CThe New York Stock Exchange
3.750% Senior Notes due 2027    
LYG27The New York Stock Exchange
4.650% Subordinated Securities due 2026    
LYG26The New York Stock Exchange
4.450% Senior Notes due 2025    
LYG25AThe New York Stock Exchange
4.582% Subordinated Securities due 2025    
LYG25The New York Stock Exchange
3.500% Senior Notes due 2025    
LYG25The New York Stock Exchange
3.900% Senior Notes due 2024    
LYG24AThe New York Stock Exchange
4.500% Subordinated Securities due 2024    
LYG24The New York Stock Exchange
4.050% Senior Notes due 2023    
LYG23AThe New York Stock Exchange
2.858% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2023    
LYG23BThe New York Stock Exchange
2.907% Senior Notes due 2023 (callable in 2022)    
LYG23The New York Stock Exchange
3.000% Senior Notes due 2022    
LYG22The New York Stock Exchange
3.300% Senior Notes due 2021    
LYG21AThe New York Stock Exchange
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2021    
LYG21BThe New York Stock Exchange
Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2021    
LYG21AThe New York Stock Exchange
3.100% Senior Notes due 2021    
LYG21The New York Stock Exchange
2.438% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2026    
LYG26AThe New York Stock Exchange
3.870% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2025    
LYG25BThe New York Stock Exchange
1.326% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2023    
LYG23CThe New York Stock Exchange

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given to them in LBG’s annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
Ordinary Shares
The following is a summary of the material terms of the ordinary shares of nominal value of £0.10, as set forth in our Articles of Association and the material provisions of U.K. law. This description is a summary and does not purport to be complete. You are encouraged to read our Articles of Association, which were filed as an exhibit to the Group’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, incorporated by reference into this document.
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Share Capital
As at December 31, 2020, the number of shares outstanding was as follows:
Class of Sharenumber
(in thousands)
amount
(in £m)
Ordinary shares, nominal value of 10 pence each    
70,839,2067,084
Preference shares, nominal value of 25 pence each    
412,201103
Preference shares, nominal value of 25 cents each    
8090.2
Preference shares, nominal value of 25 euro cents each    

Please refer to pages 2-7 of Exhibit 2(d) of the Group’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (the “2019 Annual Report”).
American Depositary Shares
Please refer to pages 7-14 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.


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Debt Securities
Each series of notes listed on the New York Stock Exchange and set forth on the cover page to LBG’s annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 has been issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc. Each of these series of notes was issued pursuant to an effective registration statement and a related prospectus and prospectus supplement (if applicable) setting forth the terms of the relevant series of notes.
The following table sets forth the dates of the registration statements, dates of the base prospectuses and dates of issuance for each relevant series of notes (the “Notes”).
Date of Base ProspectusSeriesRegistration StatementDate of Issuance
June 3, 20191.326% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2023333-231902June 8, 2020
June 3, 20193.870% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2025333-231902April 2, 2020
June 3, 20192.438% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2026333-231902January 29, 2020
June 3, 20192.858% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2023333-231902September 10, 2019
June 2, 20163.900% Senior Notes Due 2024333-211791March 5, 2019
June 2, 20164.050% Senior Notes due 2023333-211791August 9, 2018
June 2, 20164.550% Senior Notes due 2028333-211791August 9, 2018
June 2, 2016Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2021333-211791June 14, 2018
June 2, 20163.300% Senior Notes due 2021333-21179May 1, 2018
June 2, 2016Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2021333-211791May 1, 2018
June 2, 20164.450% Senior Notes due 2025333-211791May 1, 2018
June 2, 20164.375% Senior Notes due 2028333-211791March 15, 2018
June 2, 20164.344% Subordinated Securities due in 2048333-211791January 4, 2018
June 2, 20163.574% Senior Notes due in 2028 (callable in 2027)333-211791October 31, 2017
June 2, 20162.907% Senior Notes due 2023 (callable in 2022)333-211791October 31, 2017
June 2, 20163.000% Senior Notes due 2022333-211791January 4, 2017
June 2, 20163.750% Senior Notes due 2027333-211791January 4, 2017
June 2, 20163.100% Senior Notes due 2021333-211791June 30, 2016
June 7, 20134.650% Subordinated Securities due 2026333-189150March 17, 2016
June 7, 20133.500% Senior Notes due 2025333-189150May 11, 2015
June 7, 20134.500% Subordinated Securities due 2024333-189150October 29, 2014
November 4, 20165.300% Subordinated Securities due 2045333-214016November 4, 2016
November 4, 20164.582% Subordinated Securities due 2025333-214016November 4, 2016

The following descriptions of our Notes is a summary and does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full terms of the Notes and the relevant indenture thereto, which are available at www.sec.com. The description is organized by each base prospectus and includes the description of notes for each issuance there under. References to “accompanying prospectus” refers to the relevant base prospectus for the issuance. To the extent language in the prospectus supplement modifies language in the base prospectus or there is any inconsistency between the information in the base prospectus and the prospectus supplement, the terms of the prospectus supplement govern.
A.    Base Prospectus – dated June 3, 2019:
Please refer to pages 15-28 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
1.Prospectus Supplement – 1.326% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2023:
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Description of the Senior Notes
The following is a summary of certain terms of the Senior Notes. It supplements the description of the general terms of the debt securities of any series we may issue contained in the accompanying prospectus under the heading “Description of Debt Securities”. If there is any inconsistency between the following summary and the description in the accompanying prospectus, the following summary governs.
The Senior Notes will be issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000,000 and will mature on June 15, 2023. The Senior Notes bear interest at a fixed annual rate during the initial fixed rate period and at a reset annual rate during the reset fixed rate period, each as described below.
During the initial fixed rate period, interest will accrue from June 15, 2020 on the Senior Notes at a fixed rate of 1.326% per annum. Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on December 15, 2020. We refer to each such interest payment date during the initial fixed rate period as a “fixed rate interest payment date”.
During the reset fixed rate period, interest will accrue on the Senior Notes at a fixed annual rate equal to the applicable U.S. Treasury Rate (as defined below) as determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined herein) on the Reset Determination Date (as defined below), plus 110 basis points (1.100%). Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on December 15, 2022 and June 15, 2023. We refer to each such interest payment date during the reset fixed rate period as a “reset rate interest payment date”, and together with the fixed rate interest payment dates, the “interest payment dates”.
The “initial fixed rate period” is from, and including, June 15, 2020 to, but excluding, June 15, 2022 (the “Reset Date”) and the “reset fixed rate period” starts from, and including, the Reset Date to, but excluding, June 15, 2023.
Interest will be paid to holders of record of the Senior Notes in respect of the principal amount thereof outstanding 15 calendar days preceding the relevant interest payment date, whether or not a business day. If the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment is not a business day, we may pay interest and principal on the next succeeding business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment.
General
The Senior Notes will constitute our direct, unconditional, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations ranking pari passu and without any preference among themselves and at least pari passu, with all of our other outstanding unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, present and future, subject to such exceptions as may be provided by mandatory provisions of applicable law.
The Senior Notes will constitute a separate series of senior debt securities issued under an indenture dated as of July 6, 2010 (the “Senior Indenture”) between us as Issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by a twelfth supplemental indenture to be dated as of June 15, 2020 (the “Twelfth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Senior Indenture, the “Indenture”) between us as Issuer and the Trustee. Book-entry interests in the Senior Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $200,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The principal corporate trust office of the Trustee in London, United Kingdom, is designated as the principal paying agent. We may at any time designate additional paying agents or rescind the designation of paying agents or approve a change in the office through which any paying agent acts.
We will issue the Senior Notes in fully registered form. The Senior Notes will be represented by one or more global securities in the name of a nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”). You will hold beneficial interest in the Senior Notes through the DTC and its participants. The Underwriters expect to deliver the Senior Notes through the facilities of the DTC on June 15, 2020. For a more detailed summary of the form of the Senior Notes and settlement and clearance arrangements, you should read “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus. Indirect holders trading their beneficial interests in the Senior Notes through the DTC must trade in the DTC’s same-day funds settlement system and pay in immediately available funds. Secondary
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market trading will occur in the ordinary way following the applicable rules and operating procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream Luxembourg.
Definitive debt securities will only be issued in limited circumstances described under “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus.
Payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, so long as the Senior Notes are represented by global securities, will be made in immediately available funds. Beneficial interests in the global securities will trade in the same-day funds settlement system of the DTC, and secondary market trading activity in such interests will therefore settle in same-day funds.
A “business day” means any day, other than Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in the City of New York or in the City of London.
All payments in respect of the Senior Notes by us or our paying agent will be made subject to any deduction or withholding that may be imposed or levied by any jurisdiction. Except as provided under “—Payment of Additional Amounts” below, no additional amounts will be paid on the Senior Notes with respect to any such amounts withheld. For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if by reason of any agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471-1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official guidance enacted or issued in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement, any of us, the Trustee, our paying agent or another withholding agent deducts and withholds from any amount payable on, or in respect of, the Senior Notes, the amounts so deducted or withheld shall be treated as having been paid to the holder of the Senior Notes, and no additional amounts will be paid on account of any such deduction or withholding. Neither we, the Trustee nor our paying agent shall have any liability in connection with our compliance with any such withholding obligation under applicable law.
Initial Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. If any scheduled fixed rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled fixed rate interest payment date.
Reset Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. The interest rate for the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be reset on the Reset Determination Date. If any scheduled reset rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled reset rate interest payment date.
Determination of the U.S. Treasury Rate
The U.S. Treasury Rate shall be determined by The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch as calculation agent (the “Calculation Agent”).
“U.S. Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Reset Date, the rate per annum equal to: (1) the yield on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity for one-year maturities on the Reset Determination Date and appearing under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” on the Reset Determination Date in the applicable most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update”, or any successor publication that is published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities”, for the maturity of one year; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published on the
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Reset Determination Date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the Reset Date.
If the U.S. Treasury Rate cannot be determined, for whatever reason, as described under (1) or (2) above, “U.S. Treasury Rate” means the rate in percentage per annum as notified by the Calculation Agent to the Issuer equal to the yield on U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity of one year as set forth in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update” under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” (or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” for the maturity of one year) on the Reset Determination Date.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means, with respect to the reset fixed rate period, the U.S. Treasury security or securities selected by the Issuer with a maturity date on or about the last day of the reset fixed rate period and that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities denominated in U.S. dollars and having a maturity of one year.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to the Reset Date, (i) the arithmetic average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the Reset Date (calculated on the Reset Determination Date preceding the Reset Date), after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, the arithmetic average of all such quotations, or (iii) if fewer than two such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, then such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation as quoted in writing to the Calculation Agent by a Reference Treasury Dealer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of up to five banks selected by the Issuer (following, where practicable, consultation with the Calculation Agent), or the affiliates of such banks, which are (i) primary U.S. Treasury securities dealers, and their respective successors, or (ii) market makers in pricing corporate bond issues denominated in U.S. dollars.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and the Reset Date, the arithmetic average, as determined by the Calculation Agent, of the bid and offered prices for the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, at 11:00 a.m. (New York City time), on the Reset Determination Date.
“Reset Determination Date” means the second business day immediately preceding the Reset Date.
All calculations of the Calculation Agent, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Issuer, the Trustee, the paying agent and on the holders of the Senior Notes.
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
The interest rate on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by law or lower than 0% per annum.
Optional Redemption
On at least 5 business days’ but no more than 30 business days’ prior written notice delivered to the registered holders of the Senior Notes, we may, in our sole discretion (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem the Senior Notes, in whole, but not in part, on June 15, 2022, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption (the “redemption date”).
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Agreement with Respect to the Exercise of U.K. Bail-in Power
Notwithstanding any other agreements, arrangements, or understandings between us and any holder or beneficial owner of the Senior Notes, the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes will be required to agree that by purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, they acknowledge, accept, agree to be bound by and consent to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power (as defined below) by the relevant U.K. resolution authority that may result in (i) the reduction or cancellation of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes; (ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes into shares or other securities or other obligations of LBG or another person; and/or (iii) the amendment or alteration of the maturity of the Senior Notes, or amendment of the amount of interest due on the Senior Notes, or the dates on which interest becomes payable, including by suspending payment for a temporary period; which U.K. bail-in power may be exercised by means of variation of the terms of the Senior Notes solely to give effect to the exercise by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of such U.K. bail-in power. Each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes will further be required to acknowledge and agree that the rights of the holders and/or beneficial owners under the Senior Notes are subject to, and will be varied, if necessary, solely to give effect to, the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
For these purposes, a “U.K. bail-in power” is any write-down, conversion, transfer, modification or suspension power existing from time to time under any laws, regulations, rules or requirements relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the United Kingdom in effect and applicable in the United Kingdom to LBG or its affiliates, including but not limited to any such laws, regulations, rules or requirements which are implemented, adopted or enacted within the context of a European Union directive or regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms and/or within the context of a U.K. resolution regime under the Banking Act as the same has been or may be amended from time to time (whether pursuant to the U.K. Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (the “Banking Reform Act 2013”), secondary legislation or otherwise, the “Banking Act”), pursuant to which any obligations of a bank, banking group company, credit institution or investment firm or any of its affiliates can be reduced, cancelled, modified, transferred and/or converted into shares or other securities or obligations of the obligor or any other person (or suspended for a temporary period) or pursuant to which any right in a contract governing such obligations may be deemed to have been exercised. A reference to the “relevant U.K. resolution authority” is to any authority with the ability to exercise a U.K. bail-in power.
According to the principles contained in the BRRD and the amendments to the Banking Act by way of the Banking Reform Act 2013, we expect that the relevant U.K. resolution authority would exercise its U.K. bail-in powers in respect of the Senior Notes having regard to the hierarchy of creditor claims (with the exception of excluded liabilities) and that the holders of the Senior Notes would be treated equally in respect of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in powers with all other claims that would rank pari passu with the Senior Notes upon an insolvency of the Issuer or Guarantor.
No repayment of the principal amount of the Senior Notes or payment of interest on the Senior Notes shall become due and payable after the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority unless, at the time that such repayment or payment, respectively, is scheduled to become due, such repayment or payment would be permitted to be made by us under the laws and regulations of the United Kingdom and the European Union applicable to us or other members of the Group.
By purchasing or acquiring Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes: (i) acknowledges and agrees that the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority in respect of the Senior Notes shall not give rise to a default or an Event of Default for purposes of Section 315(b) (Notice of Default) and Section 315(c) (Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act (the “TIA”); (ii) to the extent permitted by the TIA, waives any and all claims against the Trustee for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee shall not be liable for, any action that the Trustee takes, or abstains from taking, in either case in accordance with the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes; and (iii) acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail- in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture shall impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner shall be deemed to have (i) consented to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to the Senior Notes and (ii) authorized, directed and requested DTC and any direct participant in DTC or other intermediary through which it holds such Senior Notes to take any and all necessary action, if required, to implement the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power with respect to the Senior Notes as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of such holder or beneficial owner or the Trustee.
Upon the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes, we shall provide a written notice to DTC as soon as practicable regarding such exercise of the U.K. bail-in power for purposes of notifying holders of such occurrence. We shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee for information purposes.
For a discussion of certain risk factors relating to the U.K. bail-in power, see “Risk Factors—Risks relating to the Senior Notes”.
Events of Default; Default; Limitation of Remedies
Events of Default
An “Event of Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order which is not successfully appealed within 30 days; or
an effective shareholders’ resolution is validly adopted,
for the winding-up of LBG, other than under or in connection with a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving a bankruptcy or insolvency.
If an Event of Default occurs, the Trustee or the holder or holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may declare to be due and payable immediately in accordance with the terms of the Indenture the principal amount of, and any accrued but unpaid interest, and any Additional Amounts (as defined below), on the Senior Notes. However, after this declaration but before the Trustee obtains a judgment or decree for payment of money due, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may rescind the declaration of acceleration and its consequences, but only if all Events of Default have been remedied and all payments due, other than those due as a result of acceleration, in respect of the Senior Notes have been made.
Defaults
A “Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
any installment of interest in respect of the Senior Notes is not paid on or before its Interest Payment Date and such failure continues for 14 days; or
all or any part of the principal of the Senior Notes is not paid when it otherwise becomes due and payable, whether upon redemption or otherwise, and such failure continues for seven days.
If a Default occurs, the Trustee may commence a proceeding for the winding-up of LBG, provided that the Trustee may not (except in such winding-up, in accordance with “Events of Default” above) declare the principal amount of, or any other amount in respect of, any outstanding Senior Notes to be due and payable.
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However, a failure to make any payment on a Senior Note shall not be a Default if it is withheld or refused in order to comply with any applicable fiscal or other law or regulation or order of any court of competent jurisdiction and LBG delivers a written opinion of legal advisors, who may be an employee of, or legal advisors for, LBG or other legal advisors, such opinion to be acceptable to the trustee (“Opinion of Counsel”), to the Trustee with that conclusion, at any time before the expiry of the applicable 14 day or seven day period by independent legal advisers, provided, however, that the Trustee may by notice to LBG require it to take such action (including but not limited to proceedings for a declaration by a court of competent jurisdiction) as the Trustee may be advised in an Opinion of Counsel, upon which opinion the Trustee may conclusively rely, is appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances to resolve such doubt, in which case LBG will forthwith take and expeditiously proceed with such action and will be bound by any final resolution of the doubt resulting therefrom. If any such action results in a determination that the relevant payment can be made without violating any applicable law, regulation or order then such payment will become due and payable on the expiration of 14 days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of interest) or seven days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of principal) after the Trustee gives written notice to LBG informing it of such resolution.
The Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of holders of Senior Notes by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in the Senior Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted therein, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by the Senior Indenture or by law, provided, however, that LBG shall not, as a result of the bringing of such judicial proceedings, be required to pay any amount representing or measured by reference to the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes prior to any date on which the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes would have otherwise been payable by LBG.
Notwithstanding any contrary provisions, nothing shall impair the right of a holder, absent the holder’s consent, to sue for any payments due but unpaid with respect to the Senior Notes.
General
The holder or holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may waive any past Event of Default or Default in respect of such series, except an Event of Default or Default in respect of the payment of interest, if any, or principal of (or premium, if any) or payments on any Senior Note of such series or a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each holder of the Senior Notes of such series.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to the duties of the Trustee, if an Event of Default or a Default occurs, the Trustee will be under no obligation to take direction from any holder or holders of the Senior Notes, unless they have offered reasonable indemnity to the Trustee. Subject to the Indenture provisions for the indemnification of the Trustee, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, if the direction is not in conflict with any rule of law or with the Indenture and does not expose the Trustee to undue risk and the action would not be unjustly prejudicial to the holder or holders of the Senior Notes not taking part in that direction. The Trustee may take any other action that it deems proper which is not inconsistent with that direction.
The Indenture provides that the Trustee will, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Default, give to each holder of the Senior Notes notice of the Event of Default or Default known to it, unless the Event of Default or Default, has been cured or waived in respect of such series. However, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding notice if it determines in good faith that withholding notice is in the interest of the holders.
We are required to furnish to the Trustee a statement as to our compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Indenture (i) annually, and (ii) within five business days of a written request from the Trustee.
Additional Issuances
We may, without the consent of the holders of the Senior Notes, issue additional notes having the same ranking and same interest rate, maturity date, redemption terms and other terms as the Senior Notes described in this prospectus supplement except for the price to the public, issue date and first interest payment date, provided
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however that such additional notes that form part of the same series of the Senior Notes must be fungible with the outstanding Senior Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Any such additional notes, together with the Senior Notes offered by this prospectus supplement, will constitute a single series of securities under the Indenture. There is no limitation on the amount of Senior Notes or other debt securities that we may issue under such indenture.
Tax Redemption
In addition to our right to redeem the Senior Notes described above under “—Optional Redemption”, we may (subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem Senior Notes in whole but not in part if we determine that as a result of a change in or amendment to the laws or regulations of the United Kingdom or any political subdivision thereof or authority thereof that has the power to tax (a “U.K. taxing jurisdiction”) (including any treaty to which such U.K. taxing jurisdiction is a party), or any change in the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations (including a decision of any court or tribunal) which change or amendment becomes effective or applicable on or after June 15, 2020:
in making any payments on the Senior Notes, we have paid or will or would on the next payment date be required to pay additional amounts;
payments on the next payment date in respect of the Senior Notes would be treated as “distributions” within the meaning of Chapter 2 Part 23 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any statutory modification or re-enactment of such Act; or
on the next payment date we would not be entitled to claim a deduction in respect of the payments in computing our U.K. taxation liabilities, or the value of the deduction to us would be materially reduced.
In the event of such a redemption, the redemption price of the Senior Notes will be 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
If we elect to redeem the Senior Notes in accordance with this subsection, they will cease to accrue interest from the redemption date, unless there is a failure to pay the redemption price on the payment date. The circumstances in which we may redeem the Senior Notes and the applicable procedures are described further in the accompanying prospectus under “Description of Debt Securities—Redemption of Senior Debt Securities”.
Loss Absorption Disqualification Event Redemption
We may, at our option (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission), having given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice to holders, redeem all but not some only of the Senior Notes outstanding at any time at 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption, if immediately prior to the giving of the notice referred to above, we notify the Trustee that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event has occurred.
A “Loss Absorption Disqualification Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the Loss Absorption Regulations, or any change in the application or official interpretation of the Loss Absorption Regulations, in any such case becoming effective on or after the issue date of the Senior Notes, such Senior Notes are or (in our opinion or the opinions of the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority) are likely to be fully or partially excluded from LBG’s or the Group’s minimum requirements for (A) own funds and eligible liabilities and/or (B) loss absorbing capacity instruments, in each case as such minimum requirements are applicable to LBG and/or the Group and determined in accordance with, and pursuant to, the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations; provided that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event shall not occur where the exclusion of the Senior Notes from the relevant minimum requirement(s) is due to the remaining maturity of the Senior Notes being less than any period prescribed by any applicable eligibility criteria for such minimum requirements under the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations effective with respect to LBG and/or the Group on the issue date of the Senior Notes.
“Loss Absorption Regulations” means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments of the United Kingdom, the Relevant Regulator, the United Kingdom resolution authority, the
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Financial Stability Board and/or of the European Parliament or of the Council of the European Union then in effect in the United Kingdom including, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, any delegated or implementing acts (such as regulatory technical standards) adopted by the European Commission and any regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments adopted by the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority from time to time (whether or not such regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards or policies are applied generally or specifically to LBG or to the Group).
Conditions to redemption and purchase, etc.
Any redemption or purchase of Senior Notes (other than redemption on the relevant maturity date), and any modification to the terms of the Senior Notes or any indenture relating thereto, is subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission therefor and otherwise to compliance with the Loss Absorption Regulations if and to the extent then required thereunder.
“Relevant Regulator” means the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England or such other governmental authority in the United Kingdom (or if LBG becomes domiciled in a jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom, in such other jurisdiction) having primary supervisory authority with respect to LBG and/or the Group with respect to prudential and/or resolution matters, as the case may be.
Payment of Additional Amounts
Amounts to be paid on the Senior Notes will be made without deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any and all present and future income, stamp and other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, or fees imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction, unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. If at any time a U.K. taxing jurisdiction requires us to make such deduction or withholding, we will pay additional amounts with respect to the principal of, interest and any other payments on, the Senior Notes (“Additional Amounts”) that are necessary in order that the net amounts paid to the holders of the Senior Notes, after the deduction or withholding, shall equal the amounts which would have been payable on the Senior Notes if the deduction or withholding had not been required. However, this will not apply to any such amount that would not have been payable or due but for the fact that:
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes is a domiciliary, national or resident of, or engaging in business or maintaining a permanent establishment or physically present in, a U.K. taxing jurisdiction or otherwise having some connection with the U.K. taxing jurisdiction other than the holding or ownership of a Senior Note, or the collection of any payment of, or in respect of, principal of, or any interest or other payment on, any Senior Note;
except in the case of a winding up in the United Kingdom, the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment in the United Kingdom;
the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment more than 30 days after the date payment became due or was provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the holder would have been entitled to the Additional Amounts on presenting the Senior Notes for payment at the close of that 30 day period;
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes or the beneficial owner of any payment of or in respect of principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes failed to comply with a request by us or our liquidator or other authorized person addressed to the holder to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the holder or the beneficial owner or to make any declaration or other similar claim to satisfy any requirement, which is required or imposed by a statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from all or part of the tax, levy, impost, duty, charge or fee;
the deduction or withholding is imposed by reason of any agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471- 1474 of the US Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official
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guidance enacted or issued in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement; or
any combination of the above items,
nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to the principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes to any holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of any taxing jurisdiction to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts, had it been the holder.
Whenever we refer in this prospectus supplement, in any context, to the payment of the principal of or any interest or other payments on, or in respect of, a Senior Note, we mean to include the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in the context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable.
Waiver of Right to Set-Off
Subject to applicable law, no holder may exercise or claim any right of set-off, counterclaim, combination of accounts, compensation or retention in respect of any amount owed to it by LBG arising under or in connection with the Senior Notes. By accepting a Senior Note, each holder will be deemed to have waived any right of set-off, counterclaim or combination of accounts with respect to such Senior Note or the Indenture (or between our obligations under or in respect of a Senior Note and any liability owed by a holder or the Trustee to us) that they might otherwise have against us, whether before or during our winding up. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing sentence, if any of the said rights and claims of any holder of any Senior Note against LBG is discharged by set-off, compensation or retention, such holder will immediately pay an amount equal to the amount of such discharge to LBG (or, in the event of winding-up or administration of LBG, the liquidator or, as applicable, the administrator of LBG) and accordingly such discharge will be deemed not to have taken place.
Trustee; Direction of Trustee
Our obligations to indemnify the Trustee in accordance with Section 6.07 of the Senior Indenture (as amended by the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture) shall survive the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes and the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder (including each beneficial owner) of the Senior Notes acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture shall impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
In addition to the foregoing, the Trustee may decline to act or accept direction from holders unless it receives written direction from holders representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes and security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee in its sole discretion. The Indenture shall not be deemed to require the Trustee to take any action which may conflict with applicable law, or which may be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part in the direction, or which would subject the Trustee to undue risk or for which it is not indemnified to its satisfaction in its sole discretion.
The Trustee makes no representations regarding, and shall not be liable with respect to, the information set forth in this prospectus supplement.
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Subsequent Holders’ Agreement
Holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes in the secondary market shall be deemed to acknowledge, agree to be bound by and consent to the same provisions specified herein to the same extent as the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes upon their initial issuance, including, without limitation, with respect to the acknowledgement and agreement to be bound by and consent to the terms of the Senior Notes related to the U.K. bail-in power.
Listing
We intend to apply for the listing of the Senior Notes on the New York Stock Exchange in accordance with its rules.
Governing Law
The Senior Indenture, the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture and the Senior Notes are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
2.Prospectus Supplement – 3.870% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2025:
DESCRIPTION OF THE SENIOR NOTES

The following is a summary of certain terms of the Senior Notes. It supplements the description of the general terms of the debt securities of any series we may issue contained in the accompanying prospectus under the heading “Description of Debt Securities”. If there is any inconsistency between the following summary and the description in the accompanying prospectus, the following summary governs.
The Senior Notes will be issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,500,000,000 and will mature on July 9, 2025. The Senior Notes bear interest at a fixed annual rate during the initial fixed rate period and at a reset annual rate during the reset fixed rate period, each as described below.
During the initial fixed rate period, interest will accrue from April 9, 2020 on the Senior Notes at a fixed rate of 3.870% per annum. Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on January 9 and July 9 of each year, commencing on July 9, 2020 (short first interest period). We refer to each such interest payment date during the initial fixed rate period as a “fixed rate interest payment date”.
During the reset fixed rate period, interest will accrue on the Senior Notes at a fixed annual rate equal to the applicable U.S. Treasury Rate (as defined below) as determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined herein) on the Reset Determination Date (as defined below), plus 350.0 basis points (3.500%). Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on January 9, 2025 and July 9,2025. We refer to each such interest payment date during the reset fixed rate period as a “reset rate interest payment date”, and together with the fixed rate interest payment dates, the “interest payment dates”.
The “initial fixed rate period” is from, and including, April 9, 2020 to, but excluding, July 9, 2024 (the “Reset Date”) and the “reset fixed rate period” starts from, and including, the Reset Date to, but excluding, July 9, 2025.
Interest will be paid to holders of record of the Senior Notes in respect of the principal amount thereof outstanding 15 calendar days preceding the relevant interest payment date, whether or not a business day. If the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment is not a business day, we may pay interest and principal on the next succeeding business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment.
General
The Senior Notes will constitute our direct, unconditional, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations ranking pari passu and without any preference among themselves and at least pari passu, with all of our other outstanding unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, present and future, subject to such exceptions as may be provided by mandatory provisions of applicable law.
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The Senior Notes will constitute a separate series of senior debt securities issued under an indenture dated as of July 6, 2010 (the “Senior Indenture”) between us as Issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by an eleventh supplemental indenture to be dated as of April 9, 2020 (the “Eleventh Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Senior Indenture, the “Indenture”) between us as Issuer and the Trustee. Book-entry interests in the Senior Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $200,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The principal corporate trust office of the Trustee in London, United Kingdom, is designated as the principal paying agent. We may at any time designate additional paying agents or rescind the designation of paying agents or approve a change in the office through which any paying agent acts.
We will issue the Senior Notes in fully registered form. The Senior Notes will be represented by one or more global securities in the name of a nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”). You will hold beneficial interest in the Senior Notes through the DTC and its participants. The Underwriters expect to deliver the Senior Notes through the facilities of the DTC on April 9, 2020. For a more detailed summary of the form of the Senior Notes and settlement and clearance arrangements, you should read “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus. Indirect holders trading their beneficial interests in the Senior Notes through the DTC must trade in the DTC’s same-day funds settlement system and pay in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading will occur in the ordinary way following the applicable rules and operating procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream Luxembourg.
Definitive debt securities will only be issued in limited circumstances described under “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus.
Payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, so long as the Senior Notes are represented by global securities, will be made in immediately available funds. Beneficial interests in the global securities will trade in the same-day funds settlement system of the DTC, and secondary market trading activity in such interests will therefore settle in same-day funds.
A “business day” means any day, other than Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in the City of New York or in the City of London.
All payments in respect of the Senior Notes by us or our paying agent will be made subject to any deduction or withholding that may be imposed or levied by any jurisdiction. Except as provided under “—Payment of Additional Amounts” below, no additional amounts will be paid on the Senior Notes with respect to any such amounts withheld. For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if by reason of any agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471-1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement, any of us, the Trustee, our paying agent or another withholding agent deducts and withholds from any amount payable on, or in respect of, the Senior Notes, the amounts so deducted or withheld shall be treated as having been paid to the holder of the Senior Notes, and no additional amounts will be paid on account of any such deduction or withholding. Neither we, the Trustee nor our paying agent shall have any liability in connection with our compliance with any such withholding obligation under applicable law.
Initial Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. If any scheduled fixed rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled fixed rate interest payment date.
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Reset Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. The interest rate for the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be reset on the Reset Determination Date. If any scheduled reset rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled reset rate interest payment date.
Determination of the U.S. Treasury Rate
The U.S. Treasury Rate shall be determined by The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch as calculation agent (the “Calculation Agent”).
“U.S. Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Reset Date, the rate per annum equal to: (1) the yield on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity for one-year maturities on the Reset Determination Date and appearing under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” on the Reset Determination Date in the applicable most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update”, or any successor publication that is published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities”, for the maturity of one year; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published on the Reset Determination Date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the Reset Date.
If the U.S. Treasury Rate cannot be determined, for whatever reason, as described under (1) or (2) above, “U.S. Treasury Rate” means the rate in percentage per annum as notified by the Calculation Agent to the Issuer equal to the yield on U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity of one year as set forth in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update” under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” (or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” for the maturity of one year) on the Reset Determination Date.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means, with respect to the reset fixed rate period, the U.S. Treasury security or securities selected by the Issuer with a maturity date on or about the last day of the reset fixed rate period and that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities denominated in U.S. dollars and having a maturity of one year.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to the Reset Date, (i) the arithmetic average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the Reset Date (calculated on the Reset Determination Date preceding the Reset Date), after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, the arithmetic average of all such quotations, or (iii) if fewer than two such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, then such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation as quoted in writing to the Calculation Agent by a Reference Treasury Dealer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of up to five banks selected by the Issuer (following, where practicable, consultation with the Calculation Agent), or the affiliates of such banks, which are (i) primary U.S. Treasury securities dealers, and their respective successors, or (ii) market makers in pricing corporate bond issues denominated in U.S. dollars.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and the Reset Date, the arithmetic average, as determined by the Calculation Agent, of the bid and offered prices for the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, at 11:00 a.m. (New York City time), on the Reset Determination Date.
“Reset Determination Date” means the second business day immediately preceding the Reset Date.
All calculations of the Calculation Agent, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Issuer, the Trustee, the paying agent and on the holders of the Senior Notes.
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All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
The interest rate on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by law or lower than 0% per annum.
Optional Redemption
On at least 5 business days’ but no more than 30 business days’ prior written notice delivered to the registered holders of the Senior Notes, we may, in our sole discretion (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem the Senior Notes, in whole, but not in part, on July 9, 2024, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption (the “redemption date”).
Agreement with Respect to the Exercise of U.K. Bail-in Power
Notwithstanding any other agreements, arrangements, or understandings between us and any holder or beneficial owner of the Senior Notes, the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes will be required to agree that by purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, they acknowledge, accept, agree to be bound by and consent to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power (as defined below) by the relevant U.K. resolution authority that may result in (i) the reduction or cancellation of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes; (ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes into shares or other securities or other obligations of LBG or another person; and/or (iii) the amendment or alteration of the maturity of the Senior Notes, or amendment of the amount of interest due on the Senior Notes, or the dates on which interest becomes payable, including by suspending payment for a temporary period; which U.K. bail-in power may be exercised by means of variation of the terms of the Senior Notes solely to give effect to the exercise by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of such U.K. bail-in power. Each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes will further be required to acknowledge and agree that the rights of the holders and/or beneficial owners under the Senior Notes are subject to, and will be varied, if necessary, solely to give effect to, the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
For these purposes, a “U.K. bail-in power” is any write-down, conversion, transfer, modification or suspension power existing from time to time under any laws, regulations, rules or requirements relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the United Kingdom in effect and applicable in the United Kingdom to LBG or its affiliates, including but not limited to any such laws, regulations, rules or requirements which are implemented, adopted or enacted within the context of a European Union directive or regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms and/or within the context of a U.K. resolution regime under the Banking Act as the same has been or may be amended from time to time (whether pursuant to the U.K. Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (the “Banking Reform Act 2013”), secondary legislation or otherwise, the “Banking Act”), pursuant to which any obligations of a bank, banking group company, credit institution or investment firm or any of its affiliates can be reduced, cancelled, modified, transferred and/or converted into shares or other securities or obligations of the obligor or any other person (or suspended for a temporary period) or pursuant to which any right in a contract governing such obligations may be deemed to have been exercised. A reference to the “relevant U.K. resolution authority” is to any authority with the ability to exercise a U.K. bail-in power.
According to the principles contained in the BRRD and the amendments to the Banking Act by way of the Banking Reform Act 2013, we expect that the relevant U.K. resolution authority would exercise its U.K. bail-in powers in respect of the Senior Notes having regard to the hierarchy of creditor claims (with the exception of excluded liabilities) and that the holders of the Senior Notes would be treated equally in respect of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in powers with all other claims that would rank pari passu with the Senior Notes upon an insolvency of the Issuer or Guarantor.
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No repayment of the principal amount of the Senior Notes or payment of interest on the Senior Notes shall become due and payable after the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority unless, at the time that such repayment or payment, respectively, is scheduled to become due, such repayment or payment would be permitted to be made by us under the laws and regulations of the United Kingdom and the European Union applicable to us or other members of the Group.
By purchasing or acquiring Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes: (i) acknowledges and agrees that the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority in respect of the Senior Notes shall not give rise to a default or an Event of Default for purposes of Section 315(b) (Notice of Default) and Section 315(c) (Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act (the “TIA”); (ii) to the extent permitted by the TIA, waives any and all claims against the Trustee for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee shall not be liable for, any action that the Trustee takes, or abstains from taking, in either case in accordance with the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes; and (iii) acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail- in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture shall impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner shall be deemed to have (i) consented to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to the Senior Notes and (ii) authorized, directed and requested DTC and any direct participant in DTC or other intermediary through which it holds such Senior Notes to take any and all necessary action, if required, to implement the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power with respect to the Senior Notes as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of such holder or beneficial owner or the Trustee.
Upon the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes, we shall provide a written notice to DTC as soon as practicable regarding such exercise of the U.K. bail-in power for purposes of notifying holders of such occurrence. We shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee for information purposes.
For a discussion of certain risk factors relating to the U.K. bail-in power, see “Risk Factors—Risks relating to the Senior Notes”.
Events of Default; Default; Limitation of Remedies
Events of Default
An “Event of Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order which is not successfully appealed within 30 days; or
an effective shareholders’ resolution is validly adopted,
for the winding-up of LBG, other than under or in connection with a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving a bankruptcy or insolvency.
If an Event of Default occurs, the Trustee or the holder or holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may declare to be due and payable immediately in accordance with the terms of the Indenture the principal amount of, and any accrued but unpaid interest, and any Additional Amounts (as defined below), on the Senior Notes. However, after this declaration but before the Trustee obtains a judgment or decree for
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payment of money due, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may rescind the declaration of acceleration and its consequences, but only if all Events of Default have been remedied and all payments due, other than those due as a result of acceleration, in respect of the Senior Notes have been made.
Defaults
A “Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
any installment of interest in respect of the Senior Notes is not paid on or before its Interest Payment Date and such failure continues for 14 days; or
all or any part of the principal of the Senior Notes is not paid when it otherwise becomes due and payable, whether upon redemption or otherwise, and such failure continues for seven days.
If a Default occurs, the Trustee may commence a proceeding for the winding-up of LBG, provided that the Trustee may not (except in such winding-up, in accordance with “Events of Default” above) declare the principal amount of, or any other amount in respect of, any outstanding Senior Notes to be due and payable.
However, a failure to make any payment on a Senior Note shall not be a Default if it is withheld or refused in order to comply with any applicable fiscal or other law or regulation or order of any court of competent jurisdiction and LBG delivers a written opinion of legal advisors, who may be an employee of, or legal advisors for, LBG or other legal advisors, such opinion to be acceptable to the trustee (“Opinion of Counsel”), to the Trustee with that conclusion, at any time before the expiry of the applicable 14 day or seven day period by independent legal advisers, provided, however, that the Trustee may by notice to LBG require it to take such action (including but not limited to proceedings for a declaration by a court of competent jurisdiction) as the Trustee may be advised in an Opinion of Counsel, upon which opinion the Trustee may conclusively rely, is appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances to resolve such doubt, in which case LBG will forthwith take and expeditiously proceed with such action and will be bound by any final resolution of the doubt resulting therefrom. If any such action results in a determination that the relevant payment can be made without violating any applicable law, regulation or order then such payment will become due and payable on the expiration of 14 days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of interest) or seven days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of principal) after the Trustee gives written notice to LBG informing it of such resolution.
The Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of holders of Senior Notes by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in the Senior Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted therein, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by the Senior Indenture or by law, provided, however, that LBG shall not, as a result of the bringing of such judicial proceedings, be required to pay any amount representing or measured by reference to the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes prior to any date on which the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes would have otherwise been payable by LBG.
Notwithstanding any contrary provisions, nothing shall impair the right of a holder, absent the holder’s consent, to sue for any payments due but unpaid with respect to the Senior Notes.
General
The holder or holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may waive any past Event of Default or Default in respect of such series, except an Event of Default or Default in respect of the payment of interest, if any, or principal of (or premium, if any) or payments on any Senior Note of such series or a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each holder of the Senior Notes of such series.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to the duties of the Trustee, if an Event of Default or a Default occurs, the Trustee will be under no obligation to take direction from any holder or holders of the Senior Notes, unless they have offered reasonable indemnity to the Trustee. Subject to the Indenture provisions for the indemnification of the Trustee, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
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available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, if the direction is not in conflict with any rule of law or with the Indenture and does not expose the Trustee to undue risk and the action would not be unjustly prejudicial to the holder or holders of the Senior Notes not taking part in that direction. The Trustee may take any other action that it deems proper which is not inconsistent with that direction.
The Indenture provides that the Trustee will, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Default, give to each holder of the Senior Notes notice of the Event of Default or Default known to it, unless the Event of Default or Default, has been cured or waived in respect of such series. However, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding notice if it determines in good faith that withholding notice is in the interest of the holders.
We are required to furnish to the Trustee a statement as to our compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Indenture (i) annually, and (ii) within five business days of a written request from the Trustee.
Additional Issuances
We may, without the consent of the holders of the Senior Notes, issue additional notes having the same ranking and same interest rate, maturity date, redemption terms and other terms as the Senior Notes described in this prospectus supplement except for the price to the public, issue date and first interest payment date, provided however that such additional notes that form part of the same series of the Senior Notes must be fungible with the outstanding Senior Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Any such additional notes, together with the Senior Notes offered by this prospectus supplement, will constitute a single series of securities under the Indenture. There is no limitation on the amount of Senior Notes or other debt securities that we may issue under such indenture.
Tax Redemption
In addition to our right to redeem the Senior Notes described above under “—Optional Redemption”, we may (subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem Senior Notes in whole but not in part if we determine that as a result of a change in or amendment to the laws or regulations of the United Kingdom or any political subdivision thereof or authority thereof that has the power to tax (a “U.K. taxing jurisdiction”) (including any treaty to which such U.K. taxing jurisdiction is a party), or any change in the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations (including a decision of any court or tribunal) which change or amendment becomes effective or applicable on or after April 9, 2020:
in making any payments on the Senior Notes, we have paid or will or would on the next payment date be required to pay additional amounts;
payments on the next payment date in respect of the Senior Notes would be treated as “distributions” within the meaning of Chapter 2 Part 23 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any statutory modification or re-enactment of such Act; or
on the next payment date we would not be entitled to claim a deduction in respect of the payments in computing our U.K. taxation liabilities, or the value of the deduction to us would be materially reduced.
In the event of such a redemption, the redemption price of the Senior Notes will be 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
If we elect to redeem the Senior Notes in accordance with this subsection, they will cease to accrue interest from the redemption date, unless there is a failure to pay the redemption price on the payment date. The circumstances in which we may redeem the Senior Notes and the applicable procedures are described further in the accompanying prospectus under “Description of Debt Securities—Redemption of Senior Debt Securities”.
Loss Absorption Disqualification Event Redemption
We may, at our option (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission), having given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice to holders, redeem all but not some only of the Senior Notes outstanding at any time at 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid
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interest to the date of redemption, if immediately prior to the giving of the notice referred to above, we notify the Trustee that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event has occurred.
A “Loss Absorption Disqualification Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the Loss Absorption Regulations, or any change in the application or official interpretation of the Loss Absorption Regulations, in any such case becoming effective on or after the issue date of the Senior Notes, such Senior Notes are or (in our opinion or the opinions of the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority) are likely to be fully or partially excluded from LBG’s or the Group’s minimum requirements for (A) own funds and eligible liabilities and/or (B) loss absorbing capacity instruments, in each case as such minimum requirements are applicable to LBG and/or the Group and determined in accordance with, and pursuant to, the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations; provided that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event shall not occur where the exclusion of the Senior Notes from the relevant minimum requirement(s) is due to the remaining maturity of the Senior Notes being less than any period prescribed by any applicable eligibility criteria for such minimum requirements under the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations effective with respect to LBG and/or the Group on the issue date of the Senior Notes.
“Loss Absorption Regulations” means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments of the United Kingdom, the Relevant Regulator, the United Kingdom resolution authority, the Financial Stability Board and/or of the European Parliament or of the Council of the European Union then in effect in the United Kingdom including, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, any delegated or implementing acts (such as regulatory technical standards) adopted by the European Commission and any regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments adopted by the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority from time to time (whether or not such regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards or policies are applied generally or specifically to LBG or to the Group).
Conditions to redemption and purchase, etc.
Any redemption or purchase of Senior Notes (other than redemption on the relevant maturity date), and any modification to the terms of the Senior Notes or any indenture relating thereto, is subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission therefor and otherwise to compliance with the Loss Absorption Regulations if and to the extent then required thereunder.
“Relevant Regulator” means the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England or such other governmental authority in the United Kingdom (or if LBG becomes domiciled in a jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom, in such other jurisdiction) having primary supervisory authority with respect to LBG and/or the Group with respect to prudential and/or resolution matters, as the case may be.
Payment of Additional Amounts
Amounts to be paid on the Senior Notes will be made without deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any and all present and future income, stamp and other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, or fees imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction, unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. If at any time a U.K. taxing jurisdiction requires us to make such deduction or withholding, we will pay additional amounts with respect to the principal of, interest and any other payments on, the Senior Notes (“Additional Amounts”) that are necessary in order that the net amounts paid to the holders of the Senior Notes, after the deduction or withholding, shall equal the amounts which would have been payable on the Senior Notes if the deduction or withholding had not been required. However, this will not apply to any such amount that would not have been payable or due but for the fact that:
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes is a domiciliary, national or resident of, or engaging in business or maintaining a permanent establishment or physically present in, a U.K. taxing jurisdiction or otherwise having some connection with the U.K. taxing jurisdiction other than the holding or ownership of a Senior Note, or the collection of any payment of, or in respect of, principal of, or any interest or other payment on, any Senior Note;
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except in the case of a winding up in the United Kingdom, the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment in the United Kingdom;
the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment more than 30 days after the date payment became due or was provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the holder would have been entitled to the Additional Amounts on presenting the Senior Notes for payment at the close of that 30 day period;
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes or the beneficial owner of any payment of or in respect of principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes failed to comply with a request by us or our liquidator or other authorized person addressed to the holder to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the holder or the beneficial owner or to make any declaration or other similar claim to satisfy any requirement, which is required or imposed by a statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from all or part of the tax, levy, impost, duty, charge or fee;
the deduction or withholding is imposed by reason of any agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471- 1474 of the US Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement; or
any combination of the above items,
nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to the principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes to any holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of any taxing jurisdiction to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts, had it been the holder.
Whenever we refer in this prospectus supplement, in any context, to the payment of the principal of or any interest or other payments on, or in respect of, a Senior Note, we mean to include the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in the context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable.
Waiver of Right to Set-Off
Subject to applicable law, no holder may exercise or claim any right of set-off, counterclaim, combination of accounts, compensation or retention in respect of any amount owed to it by LBG arising under or in connection with the Senior Notes. By accepting a Senior Note, each holder will be deemed to have waived any right of set-off, counterclaim or combination of accounts with respect to such Senior Note or the Indenture (or between our obligations under or in respect of a Senior Note and any liability owed by a holder or the Trustee to us) that they might otherwise have against us, whether before or during our winding up. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing sentence, if any of the said rights and claims of any holder of any Senior Note against LBG is discharged by set-off, compensation or retention, such holder will immediately pay an amount equal to the amount of such discharge to LBG (or, in the event of winding-up or administration of LBG, the liquidator or, as applicable, the administrator of LBG) and accordingly such discharge will be deemed not to have taken place.
Trustee; Direction of Trustee
Our obligations to indemnify the Trustee in accordance with Section 6.07 of the Senior Indenture (as amended by the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture) shall survive the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes and the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder (including each beneficial owner) of the Senior Notes acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture shall
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impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
In addition to the foregoing, the Trustee may decline to act or accept direction from holders unless it receives written direction from holders representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes and security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee in its sole discretion. The Indenture shall not be deemed to require the Trustee to take any action which may conflict with applicable law, or which may be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part in the direction, or which would subject the Trustee to undue risk or for which it is not indemnified to its satisfaction in its sole discretion.
The Trustee makes no representations regarding, and shall not be liable with respect to, the information set forth in this prospectus supplement.
Subsequent Holders’ Agreement
Holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes in the secondary market shall be deemed to acknowledge, agree to be bound by and consent to the same provisions specified herein to the same extent as the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes upon their initial issuance, including, without limitation, with respect to the acknowledgement and agreement to be bound by and consent to the terms of the Senior Notes related to the U.K. bail-in power.
Listing
We intend to apply for the listing of the Senior Notes on the New York Stock Exchange in accordance with its rules.
Governing Law
The Senior Indenture, the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture and the Senior Notes are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
3.Prospectus Supplement – 2.438% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Fixed Rate Notes due 2026:
DESCRIPTION OF THE SENIOR NOTES

The following is a summary of certain terms of the Senior Notes. It supplements the description of the general terms of the debt securities of any series we may issue contained in the accompanying prospectus under the heading “Description of Debt Securities”. If there is any inconsistency between the following summary and the description in the accompanying prospectus, the following summary governs.
The Senior Notes will be issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000,000 and will mature on February 5, 2026. The Senior Notes bear interest at a fixed annual rate during the initial fixed rate period and at a reset annual rate during the reset fixed rate period, each as described below.
During the initial fixed rate period, interest will accrue from February 5, 2020 on the Senior Notes at a fixed rate of 2.438% per annum. Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on February 5 and August 5 of each year, commencing on August 5, 2020. We refer to each such interest payment date during the initial fixed rate period as a “fixed rate interest payment date”.
During the reset fixed rate period, interest will accrue on the Senior Notes at a fixed annual rate equal to the applicable U.S. Treasury Rate (as defined below) as determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined herein) on the Reset Determination Date (as defined below), plus 100.0 basis points (1.000%). Interest accrued on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be payable semi-annually in arrears on August 5, 2025 and February 5, 2026.
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We refer to each such interest payment date during the reset fixed rate period as a “reset rate interest payment date”, and together with the fixed rate interest payment dates, the “interest payment dates”.
The “initial fixed rate period” is from, and including, February 5, 2020 to, but excluding, February 5, 2025 (the “Reset Date”) and the “reset fixed rate period” starts from, and including, the Reset Date to, but excluding, February 5, 2026.
Interest will be paid to holders of record of the Senior Notes in respect of the principal amount thereof outstanding 15 calendar days preceding the relevant interest payment date, whether or not a business day. If the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment is not a business day, we may pay interest and principal on the next succeeding business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after the scheduled maturity date or date of redemption or repayment.
General
The Senior Notes will constitute our direct, unconditional, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations ranking pari passu and without any preference among themselves and at least pari passu, with all of our other outstanding unsecured and unsubordinated obligations, present and future, subject to such exceptions as may be provided by mandatory provisions of applicable law.
The Senior Notes will constitute a separate series of senior debt securities issued under an indenture dated as of July 6, 2010 (the “Senior Indenture”) between us as Issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by a tenth supplemental indenture to be dated as of February 5, 2020 (the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Senior Indenture, the “Indenture”) between us as Issuer and the Trustee. Book-entry interests in the Senior Notes will be issued in minimum denominations of $200,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
The principal corporate trust office of the Trustee in London, United Kingdom, is designated as the principal paying agent. We may at any time designate additional paying agents or rescind the designation of paying agents or approve a change in the office through which any paying agent acts.
We will issue the Senior Notes in fully registered form. The Senior Notes will be represented by one or more global securities in the name of a nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “DTC”). You will hold beneficial interest in the Senior Notes through the DTC and its participants. The Underwriters expect to deliver the Senior Notes through the facilities of the DTC on February 5, 2020. For a more detailed summary of the form of the Senior Notes and settlement and clearance arrangements, you should read “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus. Indirect holders trading their beneficial interests in the Senior Notes through the DTC must trade in the DTC’s same-day funds settlement system and pay in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading will occur in the ordinary way following the applicable rules and operating procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream Luxembourg.
Definitive debt securities will only be issued in limited circumstances described under “Description of Certain Provisions Relating to Debt Securities and Capital Securities—Form of Debt Securities and Capital Securities; Book-Entry System” in the accompanying prospectus.
Payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, so long as the Senior Notes are represented by global securities, will be made in immediately available funds. Beneficial interests in the global securities will trade in the same-day funds settlement system of the DTC, and secondary market trading activity in such interests will therefore settle in same-day funds.
A “business day” means any day, other than Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in the City of New York or in the City of London.
All payments in respect of the Senior Notes by us or our paying agent will be made subject to any deduction or withholding that may be imposed or levied by any jurisdiction. Except as provided under “—Payment of Additional Amounts” below, no additional amounts will be paid on the Senior Notes with respect to any such amounts withheld. For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if by reason of any agreement with the
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U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471-1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement, any of us, the Trustee, our paying agent or another withholding agent deducts and withholds from any amount payable on, or in respect of, the Senior Notes, the amounts so deducted or withheld shall be treated as having been paid to the holder of the Senior Notes, and no additional amounts will be paid on account of any such deduction or withholding. Neither we, the Trustee nor our paying agent shall have any liability in connection with our compliance with any such withholding obligation under applicable law.
Initial Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the initial fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. If any scheduled fixed rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled fixed rate interest payment date.
Reset Fixed Rate Period
Interest on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of an incomplete month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in such period. The interest rate for the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will be reset on the Reset Determination Date. If any scheduled reset rate interest payment date is not a business day, we will pay interest on the next business day, but interest on that payment will not accrue during the period from and after such scheduled reset rate interest payment date.
Determination of the U.S. Treasury Rate
The U.S. Treasury Rate shall be determined by The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch as calculation agent (the “Calculation Agent”).
“U.S. Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Reset Date, the rate per annum equal to: (1) the yield on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity for one-year maturities on the Reset Determination Date and appearing under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” on the Reset Determination Date in the applicable most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update”, or any successor publication that is published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities”, for the maturity of one year; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published on the Reset Determination Date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the Reset Date.
If the U.S. Treasury Rate cannot be determined, for whatever reason, as described under (1) or (2) above, “U.S. Treasury Rate” means the rate in percentage per annum as notified by the Calculation Agent to the Issuer equal to the yield on U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity of one year as set forth in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15 Daily Update” under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” (or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury constant maturities” for the maturity of one year) on the Reset Determination Date.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means, with respect to the reset fixed rate period, the U.S. Treasury security or securities selected by the Issuer with a maturity date on or about the last day of the reset fixed rate period and that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities denominated in U.S. dollars and having a maturity of one year.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to the Reset Date, (i) the arithmetic average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the Reset Date (calculated on the Reset Determination Date preceding the Reset Date), after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if fewer than five
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such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, the arithmetic average of all such quotations, or (iii) if fewer than two such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations are received, then such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation as quoted in writing to the Calculation Agent by a Reference Treasury Dealer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of up to five banks selected by the Issuer (following, where practicable, consultation with the Calculation Agent), or the affiliates of such banks, which are (i) primary U.S. Treasury securities dealers, and their respective successors, or (ii) market makers in pricing corporate bond issues denominated in U.S. dollars.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and the Reset Date, the arithmetic average, as determined by the Calculation Agent, of the bid and offered prices for the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, at 11:00 a.m. (New York City time), on the Reset Determination Date.
“Reset Determination Date” means the second business day immediately preceding the Reset Date.
All calculations of the Calculation Agent, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Issuer, the Trustee, the paying agent and on the holders of the Senior Notes.
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
The interest rate on the Senior Notes during the reset fixed rate period will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by law or lower than 0% per annum.
Optional Redemption
On at least 5 business days’ but no more than 30 business days’ prior written notice delivered to the registered holders of the Senior Notes, we may, in our sole discretion (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem the Senior Notes, in whole, but not in part, on February 5, 2025, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption (the “redemption date”).
Agreement with Respect to the Exercise of U.K. Bail-in Power
Notwithstanding any other agreements, arrangements, or understandings between us and any holder or beneficial owner of the Senior Notes, the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes will be required to agree that by purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, they acknowledge, accept, agree to be bound by and consent to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power (as defined below) by the relevant U.K. resolution authority that may result in (i) the reduction or cancellation of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes; (ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the principal amount of, or interest on, the Senior Notes into shares or other securities or other obligations of LBG or another person; and/or (iii) the amendment or alteration of the maturity of the Senior Notes, or amendment of the amount of interest due on the Senior Notes, or the dates on which interest becomes payable, including by suspending payment for a temporary period; which U.K. bail-in power may be exercised by means of variation of the terms of the Senior Notes solely to give effect to the exercise by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of such U.K. bail-in power. Each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes will further be required to acknowledge and agree that the rights of the holders and/or beneficial owners under the Senior Notes are subject to, and will be varied, if necessary, solely to give effect to, the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
For these purposes, a “U.K. bail-in power” is any write-down, conversion, transfer, modification or suspension power existing from time to time under any laws, regulations, rules or requirements relating to the resolution of banks, banking group companies, credit institutions and/or investment firms incorporated in the United Kingdom in effect and applicable in the United Kingdom to LBG or its affiliates, including but not limited to any such laws, regulations, rules or requirements which are implemented, adopted or enacted within the context of a European Union directive or regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the
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recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms and/or within the context of a U.K. resolution regime under the Banking Act as the same has been or may be amended from time to time (whether pursuant to the U.K. Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (the “Banking Reform Act 2013”), secondary legislation or otherwise, the “Banking Act”), pursuant to which any obligations of a bank, banking group company, credit institution or investment firm or any of its affiliates can be reduced, cancelled, modified, transferred and/or converted into shares or other securities or obligations of the obligor or any other person (or suspended for a temporary period) or pursuant to which any right in a contract governing such obligations may be deemed to have been exercised. A reference to the “relevant U.K. resolution authority” is to any authority with the ability to exercise a U.K. bail-in power.
According to the principles contained in the BRRD and the amendments to the Banking Act by way of the Banking Reform Act 2013, we expect that the relevant U.K. resolution authority would exercise its U.K. bail-in powers in respect of the Senior Notes having regard to the hierarchy of creditor claims (with the exception of excluded liabilities) and that the holders of the Senior Notes would be treated equally in respect of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in powers with all other claims that would rank pari passu with the Senior Notes upon an insolvency of the Issuer or Guarantor.
No repayment of the principal amount of the Senior Notes or payment of interest on the Senior Notes shall become due and payable after the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority unless, at the time that such repayment or payment, respectively, is scheduled to become due, such repayment or payment would be permitted to be made by us under the laws and regulations of the United Kingdom and the European Union applicable to us or other members of the Group.
By purchasing or acquiring Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner of the Senior Notes: (i) acknowledges and agrees that the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority in respect of the Senior Notes shall not give rise to a default or an Event of Default for purposes of Section 315(b) (Notice of Default) and Section 315(c) (Duties of the Trustee in Case of Default) of the Trust Indenture Act (the “TIA”); (ii) to the extent permitted by the TIA, waives any and all claims against the Trustee for, agrees not to initiate a suit against the Trustee in respect of, and agrees that the Trustee shall not be liable for, any action that the Trustee takes, or abstains from taking, in either case in accordance with the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes; and (iii) acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail- in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Tenth Supplemental Indenture shall impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder and beneficial owner shall be deemed to have (i) consented to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power as it may be imposed without any prior notice by the relevant U.K. resolution authority of its decision to exercise such power with respect to the Senior Notes and (ii) authorized, directed and requested DTC and any direct participant in DTC or other intermediary through which it holds such Senior Notes to take any and all necessary action, if required, to implement the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power with respect to the Senior Notes as it may be imposed, without any further action or direction on the part of such holder or beneficial owner or the Trustee.
Upon the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes, we shall provide a written notice to DTC as soon as practicable regarding such exercise of the U.K. bail-in power for purposes of notifying holders of such occurrence. We shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee for information purposes.
For a discussion of certain risk factors relating to the U.K. bail-in power, see “Risk Factors—Risks relating to the Senior Notes”.
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Events of Default; Default; Limitation of Remedies
Events of Default
An “Event of Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order which is not successfully appealed within 30 days; or
an effective shareholders’ resolution is validly adopted,
for the winding-up of LBG, other than under or in connection with a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving a bankruptcy or insolvency.
If an Event of Default occurs, the Trustee or the holder or holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may declare to be due and payable immediately in accordance with the terms of the Indenture the principal amount of, and any accrued but unpaid interest, and any Additional Amounts (as defined below), on the Senior Notes. However, after this declaration but before the Trustee obtains a judgment or decree for payment of money due, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may rescind the declaration of acceleration and its consequences, but only if all Events of Default have been remedied and all payments due, other than those due as a result of acceleration, in respect of the Senior Notes have been made.
Defaults
A “Default” with respect to the Senior Notes shall result if:
any installment of interest in respect of the Senior Notes is not paid on or before its Interest Payment Date and such failure continues for 14 days; or
all or any part of the principal of the Senior Notes is not paid when it otherwise becomes due and payable, whether upon redemption or otherwise, and such failure continues for seven days.
If a Default occurs, the Trustee may commence a proceeding for the winding-up of LBG, provided that the Trustee may not (except in such winding-up, in accordance with “Events of Default” above) declare the principal amount of, or any other amount in respect of, any outstanding Senior Notes to be due and payable.
However, a failure to make any payment on a Senior Note shall not be a Default if it is withheld or refused in order to comply with any applicable fiscal or other law or regulation or order of any court of competent jurisdiction and LBG delivers a written opinion of legal advisors, who may be an employee of, or legal advisors for, LBG or other legal advisors, such opinion to be acceptable to the trustee (“Opinion of Counsel”), to the Trustee with that conclusion, at any time before the expiry of the applicable 14 day or seven day period by independent legal advisers, provided, however, that the Trustee may by notice to LBG require it to take such action (including but not limited to proceedings for a declaration by a court of competent jurisdiction) as the Trustee may be advised in an Opinion of Counsel, upon which opinion the Trustee may conclusively rely, is appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances to resolve such doubt, in which case LBG will forthwith take and expeditiously proceed with such action and will be bound by any final resolution of the doubt resulting therefrom. If any such action results in a determination that the relevant payment can be made without violating any applicable law, regulation or order then such payment will become due and payable on the expiration of 14 days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of interest) or seven days (in the case of a Default in respect of a payment of principal) after the Trustee gives written notice to LBG informing it of such resolution.
The Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of holders of Senior Notes by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in the Senior Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted therein, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by the Senior Indenture or by law, provided, however, that LBG shall not, as a result of the bringing of such judicial proceedings, be required to pay any amount representing or measured by reference to the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes prior to any date on which the principal of, or any interest on, the Senior Notes would have otherwise been payable by LBG.
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Notwithstanding any contrary provisions, nothing shall impair the right of a holder, absent the holder’s consent, to sue for any payments due but unpaid with respect to the Senior Notes.
General
The holder or holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes may waive any past Event of Default or Default in respect of such series, except an Event of Default or Default in respect of the payment of interest, if any, or principal of (or premium, if any) or payments on any Senior Note of such series or a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each holder of the Senior Notes of such series.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to the duties of the Trustee, if an Event of Default or a Default occurs, the Trustee will be under no obligation to take direction from any holder or holders of the Senior Notes, unless they have offered reasonable indemnity to the Trustee. Subject to the Indenture provisions for the indemnification of the Trustee, the holder or holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, if the direction is not in conflict with any rule of law or with the Indenture and does not expose the Trustee to undue risk and the action would not be unjustly prejudicial to the holder or holders of the Senior Notes not taking part in that direction. The Trustee may take any other action that it deems proper which is not inconsistent with that direction.
The Indenture provides that the Trustee will, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Default, give to each holder of the Senior Notes notice of the Event of Default or Default known to it, unless the Event of Default or Default, has been cured or waived in respect of such series. However, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding notice if it determines in good faith that withholding notice is in the interest of the holders.
We are required to furnish to the Trustee a statement as to our compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Indenture (i) annually, and (ii) within five business days of a written request from the Trustee.
Additional Issuances
We may, without the consent of the holders of the Senior Notes, issue additional notes having the same ranking and same interest rate, maturity date, redemption terms and other terms as the Senior Notes described in this prospectus supplement except for the price to the public, issue date and first interest payment date, provided however that such additional notes that form part of any series must be fungible with the outstanding Senior Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Any such additional notes, together with the Senior Notes offered by this prospectus supplement, will constitute a single series of securities under the Indenture. There is no limitation on the amount of Senior Notes or other debt securities that we may issue under such indenture.
Tax Redemption
In addition to our right to redeem the Senior Notes described above under “—Optional Redemption”, we may (subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission) redeem Senior Notes in whole but not in part if we determine that as a result of a change in or amendment to the laws or regulations of the United Kingdom or any political subdivision thereof or authority thereof that has the power to tax (a “U.K. taxing jurisdiction”) (including any treaty to which such U.K. taxing jurisdiction is a party), or any change in the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations (including a decision of any court or tribunal) which change or amendment becomes effective or applicable on or after February 5, 2020:
in making any payments on the Senior Notes, we have paid or will or would on the next payment date be required to pay additional amounts;
payments on the next payment date in respect of the Senior Notes would be treated as “distributions” within the meaning of Chapter 2 Part 23 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any statutory modification or re-enactment of such Act; or
on the next payment date we would not be entitled to claim a deduction in respect of the payments in computing our U.K. taxation liabilities, or the value of the deduction to us would be materially reduced.
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In the event of such a redemption, the redemption price of the Senior Notes will be 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption.
If we elect to redeem the Senior Notes in accordance with this subsection, they will cease to accrue interest from the redemption date, unless there is a failure to pay the redemption price on the payment date. The circumstances in which we may redeem the Senior Notes and the applicable procedures are described further in the accompanying prospectus under “Description of Debt Securities—Redemption of Senior Debt Securities”.
Loss Absorption Disqualification Event Redemption
We may, at our option (but subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission), having given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice to holders, redeem all but not some only of the Senior Notes outstanding at any time at 100% of their principal amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to the date of redemption, if immediately prior to the giving of the notice referred to above, we notify the Trustee that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event has occurred.
A “Loss Absorption Disqualification Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the Loss Absorption Regulations, or any change in the application or official interpretation of the Loss Absorption Regulations, in any such case becoming effective on or after the issue date of the Senior Notes, such Senior Notes are or (in our opinion or the opinions of the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority) are likely to be fully or partially excluded from LBG’s or the Group’s minimum requirements for (A) own funds and eligible liabilities and/or (B) loss absorbing capacity instruments, in each case as such minimum requirements are applicable to LBG and/or the Group and determined in accordance with, and pursuant to, the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations; provided that a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event shall not occur where the exclusion of the Senior Notes from the relevant minimum requirement(s) is due to the remaining maturity of the Senior Notes being less than any period prescribed by any applicable eligibility criteria for such minimum requirements under the relevant Loss Absorption Regulations effective with respect to LBG and/or the Group on the issue date of the Senior Notes.
Loss Absorption Regulations” means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments of the United Kingdom, the Relevant Regulator, the United Kingdom resolution authority, the Financial Stability Board and/or of the European Parliament or of the Council of the European Union then in effect in the United Kingdom including, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, any delegated or implementing acts (such as regulatory technical standards) adopted by the European Commission and any regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments adopted by the Relevant Regulator and/or the United Kingdom resolution authority from time to time (whether or not such regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards or policies are applied generally or specifically to LBG or to the Group).
Conditions to redemption and purchase, etc.
Any redemption or purchase of Senior Notes (other than redemption on the relevant maturity date), and any modification to the terms of the Senior Notes or any indenture relating thereto, is subject to, if and to the extent then required by the Relevant Regulator or the Loss Absorption Regulations, our giving notice to the Relevant Regulator and the Relevant Regulator granting us permission therefor and otherwise to compliance with the Loss Absorption Regulations if and to the extent then required thereunder.
“Relevant Regulator” means the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England or such other governmental authority in the United Kingdom (or if LBG becomes domiciled in a jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom, in such other jurisdiction) having primary supervisory authority with respect to LBG and/or the Group with respect to prudential and/or resolution matters, as the case may be.
Payment of Additional Amounts
Amounts to be paid on the Senior Notes will be made without deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any and all present and future income, stamp and other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, or fees imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction, unless such deduction or
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withholding is required by law. If at any time a U.K. taxing jurisdiction requires us to make such deduction or withholding, we will pay additional amounts with respect to the principal of, interest and any other payments on, the Senior Notes (“Additional Amounts”) that are necessary in order that the net amounts paid to the holders of the Senior Notes, after the deduction or withholding, shall equal the amounts which would have been payable on the Senior Notes if the deduction or withholding had not been required. However, this will not apply to any such amount that would not have been payable or due but for the fact that:
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes is a domiciliary, national or resident of, or engaging in business or maintaining a permanent establishment or physically present in, a U.K. taxing jurisdiction or otherwise having some connection with the U.K. taxing jurisdiction other than the holding or ownership of a Senior Note, or the collection of any payment of, or in respect of, principal of, or any interest or other payment on, any Senior Note;
except in the case of a winding up in the United Kingdom, the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment in the United Kingdom;
the Senior Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment more than 30 days after the date payment became due or was provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the holder would have been entitled to the Additional Amounts on presenting the Senior Notes for payment at the close of that 30 day period;
the holder or the beneficial owner of the Senior Notes or the beneficial owner of any payment of or in respect of principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes failed to comply with a request by us or our liquidator or other authorized person addressed to the holder to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the holder or the beneficial owner or to make any declaration or other similar claim to satisfy any requirement, which is required or imposed by a statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a U.K. taxing jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from all or part of the tax, levy, impost, duty, charge or fee;
the deduction or withholding is imposed by reason of any agreement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in connection with Sections 1471- 1474 of the US Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Treasury regulations thereunder (“FATCA”), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom or any other jurisdiction with respect to FATCA, or any law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any intergovernmental agreement; or
any combination of the above items,
nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to the principal of, or any interest or other payment on, the Senior Notes to any holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of any taxing jurisdiction to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts, had it been the holder.
Whenever we refer in this prospectus supplement, in any context, to the payment of the principal of or any interest or other payments on, or in respect of, a Senior Note, we mean to include the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in the context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable.
Waiver of Right to Set-Off
Subject to applicable law, no holder may exercise or claim any right of set-off, counterclaim, combination of accounts, compensation or retention in respect of any amount owed to it by LBG arising under or in connection with the Senior Notes. By accepting a Senior Note, each holder will be deemed to have waived any right of set-off, counterclaim or combination of accounts with respect to such Senior Note or the Indenture (or between our obligations under or in respect of a Senior Note and any liability owed by a holder or the Trustee to us) that they might otherwise have against us, whether before or during our winding up. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing sentence, if any of the said rights and claims of any holder of any Senior Note against LBG is discharged by set-off, compensation or retention, such holder will immediately pay an amount equal to the amount of such
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discharge to LBG (or, in the event of winding-up or administration of LBG, the liquidator or, as applicable, the administrator of LBG) and accordingly such discharge will be deemed not to have taken place.
Trustee; Direction of Trustee
Our obligations to indemnify the Trustee in accordance with Section 6.07 of the Senior Indenture (as amended by the Tenth Supplemental Indenture) shall survive the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority with respect to the Senior Notes and the Indenture.
By purchasing or acquiring the Senior Notes, each holder (including each beneficial owner) of the Senior Notes acknowledges and agrees that, upon the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, (a) the Trustee shall not be required to take any further directions from holders of the Senior Notes under Section 5.12 of the Senior Indenture, and (b) neither the Senior Indenture nor the Tenth Supplemental Indenture shall impose any duties upon the Trustee whatsoever with respect to the exercise of any U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, following the completion of the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power by the relevant U.K. resolution authority, any of the Senior Notes remain outstanding (for example, if the exercise of the U.K. bail-in power results in only a partial write-down of the principal of such Senior Notes), then the Trustee’s duties under the Indenture shall remain applicable with respect to such Senior Notes following such completion to the extent that LBG and the Trustee shall agree pursuant to a supplemental indenture or an amendment to the Indenture.
In addition to the foregoing, the Trustee may decline to act or accept direction from holders unless it receives written direction from holders representing a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes and security and/or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee in its sole discretion. The Indenture shall not be deemed to require the Trustee to take any action which may conflict with applicable law, or which may be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part in the direction, or which would subject the Trustee to undue risk or for which it is not indemnified to its satisfaction in its sole discretion.
The Trustee makes no representations regarding, and shall not be liable with respect to, the information set forth in this prospectus supplement.
Subsequent Holders’ Agreement
Holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes in the secondary market shall be deemed to acknowledge, agree to be bound by and consent to the same provisions specified herein to the same extent as the holders and beneficial owners of the Senior Notes that acquire the Senior Notes upon their initial issuance, including, without limitation, with respect to the acknowledgement and agreement to be bound by and consent to the terms of the Senior Notes related to the U.K. bail-in power.
Listing
We intend to apply for the listing of the Senior Notes on the New York Stock Exchange in accordance with its rules.
Governing Law
The Senior Indenture, the Tenth Supplemental Indenture and the Senior Notes are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
4.Prospectus Supplement – 2.858% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2023:
Please refer to pages 28-42 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
B.    Base Prospectus – dated June 2, 2016:
Please refer to pages 42-58 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
1.Prospectus Supplement – 3.900% Senior Notes due 2024:
Please refer to pages 58-66 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
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2.Prospectus Supplement – 4.050% Senior Notes due 2023 and 4.550% Senior Notes due 2028:
Please refer to pages 66-73 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
3.Prospectus Supplement – Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021:
Please refer to pages 73-83 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
4.Prospectus Supplement – 3.300% Senior Notes due 2021 and Floating Rate Notes due 2021:
Please refer to pages 83-90 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
5.Prospectus Supplement – 4.450% Senior Notes due 2025:
Please refer to pages 90-98 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
6.Prospectus Supplement – 4.375% Notes due 2028:
Please refer to pages 98-106 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
7.Prospectus Supplement – 4.344% Fixed Rate Subordinated Debt Securities due 2048:
Please refer to pages 106-117 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
8.Prospectus Supplement – 2.907% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2023 and 3.574% Senior Callable Fixed-to-Floating Rate Notes due 2028:
Please refer to pages 117-126 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
9.Prospectus Supplement – 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022 and 3.750% Senior Notes due 2027:
Please refer to pages 126-133 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
10.Prospectus Supplement – 3.100% Senior Notes due 2021:
Please refer to pages 133-138 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
C.    Base Prospectus – dated June 7, 2013:
Please refer to pages 138-152 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
1.Prospectus Supplement – 4.650% Fixed Rate Subordinated Debt Securities due 2026:
Please refer to pages 152-163 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
2.Prospectus Supplement – 3.500% Senior Notes due 2025:
Please refer to pages 168-173 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
3.Prospectus Supplement – 4.500% Fixed Rate Subordinated Debt Securities due 2024:
Please refer to pages 179-187 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
D.    Prospectus – Offer to Exchange 4.582% Subordinated Debt Securities due 2025 and 5.300% Subordinated Debt Securities due 2045 for New 4.582% Subordinated Debt Securities due 2025 and New 5.300% Subordinated Debt Securities due 2045:
Please refer to pages 202-215 of Exhibit 2(d) of the 2019 Annual Report.
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