Budget airline easyJet is expected to lay bare the cost of recent terror attacks this week, with William Hill also set to update the market on its progress while the annual meeting at Lloyds Banking Group caps off a busy week in the City.

Lloyds Banking Group has changed its employee health insurance plans to include private gender reassignment surgery.

The UK’s top banks are set for one of their worst first-quarter earnings seasons since the financial crisis, adding to their struggle to win over investors against a backdrop of misconduct charges, a weak economic outlook and uncertainty over Brexit.

Lawsuits and misconduct fines have cost Britain’s largest retail banks and customer-owned lenders almost £53 billion (€65.6bn) over the past 15 years, a new study has found.

Lloyds Banking Group set aside a further £1.4bn (€1.99bn) to compensate customers mis-sold loan insurance, pushing its first-half profit below analysts’ forecasts.

Britain has cut its stake in Lloyds Banking Group to below 17%, the country’s finance ministry said in a stock-market disclosure yesterday, taking the sum recovered by the UK taxpayer to £11.5bn (€16.2bn).