Search results for ‘Barclays’
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Don’t close Somali cash ‘lifeline’, charities tell Barclays
In the latest attempt to save Somalia’s cash “lifeline”, nine aid agencies call on Barclays Bank to scrap plans to sever money transfer accounts.
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Farah: Barclays remittance plans ‘two steps back’
Olympian Mo Farah describes how Barclays’ plans to close bank accounts of remittance services, used by foreign workers to send money home, will lead to Somali families going hungry.
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Campaign against Barclays remittance block heads to No 10
A petition of 20,000 signatures, over a Barclays’ decision to block remittance services, goes to Downing Street… as Olympian Mo Farah also joins the cries of protest.
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Barclays seeks to satisfy regulators with £5.8bn cash boost
Shares fall in banking giant Barclays after it announces a larger than expected cash call, in which it will seek £5.8bn from its investors.
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Fired or retired? Rich Ricci and Barclays bank part ways
The controversial and aptly named head of Barclays investment arm Rich Ricci has left the bank, but not before he was able to cash in nearly £18 million in shares just weeks ago.
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Has Barclays bank really turned over a new leaf?
After sneaking out news of multi-million pound payouts to top staff on budget day, can we believe Barclays has turned over a new leaf? Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy thinks not.
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When it comes to bonuses, does Barclays really ‘get it’?
Siobhan Kennedy uncovers some numbers in the Barclays accounts which suggest that – on bonuses at least – the bank might not “get it” in the way its chief executive promises after all.
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Has Barclays ‘learned the lessons of the past’?
As Barclays announces a big fall in profits and a revamp of its business, Channel 4 News looks at what went wrong at the bank and asks if the future will be any brighter.
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Barclays ‘has been too aggressive’ says boss
Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins tells Channel 4 News the bank has been too aggressive in the past and vows to take “necessary action” once a Serious Fraud Office investigation reports.
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Barclays to axe 3,700 jobs
Banking giant Barclays is to cut at least 3,700 jobs under a strategic overhaul, but will pay £1.85bn in bonuses to its staff.
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Barclays cuts bonuses to cover cost of mis-selling
Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins says he is “shredding” Bob Diamond’s legacy as he tells MPs that bonuses will be cut to compensate people wrongly sold financial products.
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Senior Barclays figures to retire
Barclays says finance director Chris Lucas, the only remaining top ranking executive at the bank following the Libor scandal, is to retire, along with group general counsel Mark Harding.
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Barclays boss forgoes bonus
It’s amazing isn’t it, that five years on from the banking crisis, bank bosses are still having to forego their bonuses for bad behaviour. Today it was the turn of Antony Jenkins.
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Judge: Barclays can be sued in Libor-rigging swaps case
Barclays can be sued for allegedly mis-selling interest rate swaps while rigging the Libor rate, in a landmark claim seen as a test case for thousands of businesses, a London judge rules.
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Fraud probe launched into Barclays’ Qatar payments
Barclays has named Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive, just hours after it confirmed that the Serious Fraud Office has launched investigations into the bank’s deals with Middle East investors.
