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(ShareCast News) - The exposure of UK banks to China and oil should not be a material concern and the prospects for dividends have improved but the likelihood of later rate hikes in the UK means their shares are now worth less, HSBC analysts said. To back-up their claim as regards China and crude oi

Barclays said to hand over Qatar documents to SFO

(ShareCast News) - Barclays has reportedly agreed to hand over internal documents to British prosecutors, a move that could end a drawn-out investigation into a 2008 fundraising involving Middle Eastern investors. Bloomberg cited people familiar with the matter as saying the bank is in the process o

Barclays to hand Qatar deal documents over to UK's SFO - Bloomberg

LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Barclays Plc has agreed to hand internal documents over to British prosecutors, potentially ending a drawn-out investigation into a 2008 fundraising involving Middle Eastern investors, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Barclays has been under investigation since 2012

PRESS: Barclays Hands Over Qatar Fundraising Files To SFO - Bloomberg

HSBC cuts price targets for Barclays, Lloyds and RBS

(ShareCast News) - The exposure of UK banks to China and oil should not be a material concern and the prospects for dividends have improved but the likelihood of later rate hikes in the UK means their shares are now worth less, HSBC analysts said. To back-up their claim as regards China and crude oi

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Weak US Services Data Add To Market Gloom

BUZZ-European financials: watch the swaps

** European equity traders increasingly looking to credit markets for cues on how to trade financial stocks, as the cost of insuring against defaults continues to rise ** Multiple traders point to breakouts in key CDS indices as evidence of growing concern on the health of Europe's banks an

Barclays cuts senior US credit trading roles -source

LONDON, Feb 3 (IFR) - The heads of Barclays' distressed debt and investment-grade bond trading are both leaving the UK bank's credit trading unit as part of cuts at its investment bank annnounced last month. Dan Crowley, head of distressed debt, and Anthony Bugliari, head of US high-grade b

UPDATE 1-Barclays cuts 150 jobs in Mideast as restructures regional corporate bank

* Nearly 150 jobs cut in Dubai corporate bank - source * Latest step in global review of business by new CEO * Bank still has several hundred staff in Dubai - source (Adds detail, context) By Tom Arnold DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Barclays is cutting nearly 150 staff from i

UK fraud prosecutor extradites fugitive from South Africa

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - UK prosecutors have extradited a British company director almost a decade after he fled to South Africa to avoid a jail sentence for fraud-related offences, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Wednesday. Raymond Nevitt was sentenced to three years and nine month

Barclays cuts 150 jobs in Mideast as it restructures corporate bank

DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Barclays is cutting nearly 150 people from its corporate banking unit in Dubai as part of a restructuring of the business in the Gulf emirate, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The bank will close its office in the Emaar Square area of the emirate

Citigroup reaches $23 mln 'ice breaker' yen Libor settlement

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc will pay $23 million to end private U.S. antitrust litigation claiming that it conspired to manipulate the yen Libor and Euroyen Tibor benchmark interest rates. Lawyers for the plaintiff investors called the accord an "ice

Credit Suisse, Barclays Reach Settlements On Dark Pool Probe

Julius Baer taking look at Barclays Asia wealth arm - CEO

ZURICH, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Private bank Julius Baer is considering whether to bid for Barclays' Asian private wealth business as part of the Swiss group's acquisition campaign, Chief Executive Boris Collardi told Reuters on Monday. Barclays has picked Lazard to help advise on the deal amid

PRESS: Barclays Among Bidders For TD Direct Broker - Sky News