Lloyds Bank has come under fire as its business customers and whistleblowers have accused it of failing small firms by reducing lending after the 2008 financial crash.
The BBC reports that business owners and their firms who borrowed from the bank around that time and were introduced to its Business Support Unit (BSU) collapsed despite the initiative being designed to help clients that were struggling.
A whistleblower has told Panorama there was a "pattern" of "pigeonholing" small businesses as "distressed" when they were "salvageable".
During the 2008 banking crisis, the government bailed out banks to save them from collapse, including Lloyds which got £20billion of taxpayers' cash.
Lloyds said it "categorically denied" the allegations and its BSU "supported many thousands of customers".