Lloyds Banking Group led gains on the FTSE-100 today on the back of several pieces of good news; in particular after announcing the sale of Hill Hire, the truck and trailer rental solutions provider, for £151m, to US-based Ryder System.Also supporting its stock price, the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, urged the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to make an "acceptable and feasible" proposal for Lloyds. In its interim report, back in April, the ICB told the bank that it might have to sell substantially more than the 600 branches that it was ordered to by the European Union, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the situation. Lastly, but not least, analyst Robert Law, at Nomura, issued a research note today in which he indicated that, "Of the domestic banks, although the year-to-date share price performance has been particularly weak, we still see Lloyds as the name with significant upside from its restructuring, particularly at a 0.8x P/TBV." The above in a short note entitled, "Lloyds looks cheap, prefer Standard Chartered to HSBC."Shares of Lloyds closed up today on the FTSE-100, at the head of the pack, rising by 2.26% to 48.68p.AB