Barclays Share News (BARC)

Wednesday preview: US retail sales, Barclays in the spotlight

(Sharecast News) - The market spotlight in the middle of the week will continue to be on the US, where a raft of activity indicators were due out.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: RBC cuts Severn Trent, likes National Grid

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:

FTSE 100 posts weekly fall as rate hike worries linger

StanChart slides as FAB quashes takeover talks

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PRESS: UK FCA launches review into Barclays on anti-laundering systems

(Alliance News) - Barclays PLC is being probed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority over potential persistent failings in its compliance and anti-money laundering systems, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Barclays in row over Tech Nation staff

(Sharecast News) - Banking giant Barclays has come head-to-head with Tech Nation over whether or not it should be forced to absorb dozens of staff under regulations designed to protect workers when their employer is taken over.

NatWest pledges to stop providing loans for new oil and gas projects

(Alliance News) - NatWest Group PLC has pledged to reduce lending to oil and gas firms amid new climate change initiatives due to be unveiled next week.

UK watchdog probes Barclays over anti-money laundering systems -FT

LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator is investigating Barclays PLC for suspected failings in its compliance and anti-money laundering systems, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Investors urge European banks to end new oil and gas financing

LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - European banks risk jeopardising the path to net-zero carbon emissions and the growth of renewable energy unless they stop directly financing new oil and gas fields this year, investors managing assets worth more than $1.5 trillion said on Friday.

LONDON BRIEFING: UK avoids recession; StanChart bid interest denied

(Alliance News) - Stocks were called lower on Friday, while preliminary economic data showed the UK narrowly avoided a winter recession.

Major investors urge big European banks to stop financing fossil fuels

(Alliance News) - A group of investors with combined assets of more than USD1.5 trillion, or GBP1.23 trillion, have written to five of Europe's biggest banks, including Barclays PLC, urging them to stop lending to fossil fuel firms.

Investors call on five European banks to end new oil and gas finance

LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - European banks risk jeopardising the path to net-zero carbon emissions and the growth of renewable energy unless they stop directly financing new oil and gas fields this year, investors managing assets worth more than $1.5 trillion said on Friday.

First Abu Dhabi Bank could renew $35 billion offer for StanChart -Bloomberg News

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the United Arab Emirates' biggest lender, could renew a potential offer for Britain's Standard Chartered, once lock-up rules from its previous aborted bid expire, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

Jeffrey Epstein's banks seek to end accusers' lawsuits

NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and Deutsche Bank AG called on a U.S. judge to dismiss lawsuits by victims of Jeffrey Epstein who accused the banks of enabling the late financier's sexual abuses.

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

Barclays CEO Venkatakrishnan not presenting bank's results -spokesperson

LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Barclays Chief Executive Officer C.S. Venkatakrishnan will not present the bank's annual results next week, a spokesperson for the bank told Reuters, with the duties falling to Finance Director Anna Cross instead.