Hundreds of Lloyds Bankers Head Back to School to Learn AI

Lloyds Banking Group Plc has teamed up with the University of Cambridge to train 300 senior staff in artificial intelligence as part of the bank’s technology shake-up.

The first group of leaders from the British bank are starting to take the 80-hour course this month in order to adopt an “AI-first” mindset, Rohit Dhawan, head of AI and advanced analytics at Lloyds, said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Dhawan, who joined the group in August 2024, said AI development at Lloyds has been like “flying an airplane while building it.” The bank has now completed its three-year migration of ...