MARK Stowe has joined the Lloyds TSB Corporate team in the Severnside region as relationship manager, looking after corporate customers' banking needs in Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester.

Mark, 39, joined the bank in 1990 from Bath University, where he studied economics, computing and statistics.

He entered relationship banking in 1996, and will look after a portfolio of businesses with a turnover of more than £2 million.