LLOYDS BANK CANADA 1ST QTR PROFIT RISES SHARPLY

  Lloyds Bank Canada, a unit of &lt;Lloyds
  Bank International PLC>, said net profit soared to 3,053,000
  dlrs for the first quarter ended January 31 from 9,000 dlrs a
  year earlier.
      Loan loss provisions, a mandatory five-year averaging of
  actual loan losses, also rose in the first quarter to 6,375,000
  dlrs from year-ago 113,000 dlrs, the bank said.
      Lloyds Bank Canada became Canada's largest foreign bank
  last autumn with its 200 mln Canadian dlr acquisition of
  Continental Bank of Canada.
  

