UK bank Lloyds on high alert over potential Russian cyberattacks

Lloyds reported a pre-tax profit of £6.9bn (€8.3bn), below the £7.2bn average analyst forecast compiled by the bank

The bank said it would buy back £2bn of its own shares and pay a final dividend of 1.33 pence per share.

Britain's biggest domestic lender Lloyds has said it is on "heightened alert" for cyberattacks from Russia as the crisis in Ukraine has worsened.

"We've been on heightened alert... internally around our cyber risk controls and we've been focused on this now for quite a while," Lloyds CEO Charlie Nunn said after the bank's full-year results.