Lloyds Banking Group has signed a five year deal with Google Cloud in a bid to streamline the bank’s customer experience; Lloyds Group Transformation Director Zaka Mian tells AltFi, “The size of our digital transformation is huge and Google Cloud’s capabilities will help drive this forward, increasing the pace of innovation, as well as bringing new services to our customers quickly and at scale. This collaboration gives us a strategic advantage to continue as a leader in banking technology.”; the deal is part of a wider investment by the bank which will see them spend £3bn overall on upgrading and improving their overall digital experience; “Banking customers today expect secure access to their funds, without downtime, and delivered through the modern experiences they receive in other aspects of their lives,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to AltFi. Altfi