A woman walks past a row of Lloyds Bank cash machines in Chelsea, central London, August 4, 2010. Part-nationalised Lloyds, Britain's biggest retail bank, beat forecasts on Wednesday to swing to its first profit in two years and said it expects to deliver a strong performance as the British economy recovers. Lloyds Banking Group said lower-than-expected bad debt charges had propelled it to a pretax profit of 1.603 billion pounds ($2.48 billion) in the first half of 2010, compared with a loss of 3.96 billion a year earlier.REUTERS/Andrew Winning (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)