Lenders cancel billions in shareholder dividends — and now face calls to use the money to help households and firms through crisis
Banks are facing calls to suspend interest payments on outstanding debt after they scrapped billions of pounds of dividends to shareholders during theFollowing strong pressure from banking regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority , NatWest, Santander, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide, Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays all cancelled payouts to shareholders until the end of the year.
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