... inflation runninghigh, Patrick Colquhoun, a stipendiary magistrate in London, expandedon these ideas by outlining a scheme for a National Deposit Bank for Parochial Savings managed and guaranteed ... problem for the TSB and its managers was that they lacked anyexperience of commercial banking and most of the capital raised atflotation, which was much in excess of capital requirements, was lost ... merchant banking and insurance. After a period of reorganisation and restructuring around its core business of retail financial services, Lloyds Bank, an established UK commercial bank,acquired...