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London midday: Stocks advance as rate-hike speculation eases

- BoE strikes dovish tone as wages fall - Ukraine crisis, Asian data in focus - Ex-dividend stocks limit upside - Banking stocks lead upside techMARK 2,736.01 +0.28% FTSE 100 6,661.68 +0.44% FTSE 250 15,528.53 +0.41% An overall dovish tone to the Bank of England's (BoE) Inflation Report gave UK st

UPDATE 2-Barclays Kenya to expand mortgage finance unit

* H1 pretax profit up 12 pct to 6.1 bln shillings * Withholds dividend to expand capital base, invest * Loan book grows 20 pct (Adds detail on real estate loan plans) NAIROBI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Barclays Bank of Kenya plans to start a mortgage finance division to tap demand f

Barclays Bank of Kenya says H1 pretax profit up 12 pct

NAIROBI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Barclays Bank of Kenya's half year pretax profit rose 12 percent to 6.1 billion shillings ($69.36 million) compared to the the same period last year, largely due to a surge in customer loans, the bank said on Tuesday. Jeremy Awori, the managing director for the

MEDIA-Barclays quant trading unit to take 60 employees in spinout - Bloomberg

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US to force swaps overhaul to improve wind-downs

(This story originally appeared in IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication) By Philip Scipio LONDON, Aug 11 (IFR) - The way the world's largest banks use derivatives is set for drastic change after the US Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp moved to strip financial counterpa

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Shares Gain Amid Hopes For Easing Tensions

PRESS: Fairhead, Davies Shortlisted For Barclays Chair - Sunday Times

FT's former CEO joins race for Barclays' top job - Sunday Times

Aug 11 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of the Financial Times, Rona Fairhead, and the former deputy governor of the Bank of England, Howard Davies, are contesting to be Barclays Plc's next chairman, the Sunday Times reported, citing sources. Fairhead, who is a non-executive director

MEDIA-Ex-Financial Times chief joins race for Barclays' top job - Sunday Times

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Sunday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Carillion-Balfour, Ofgem

Rona Fairhead, the former boss of the Financial Times, and Howard Davies, the ex-chief City regulator, are the two leading candidates to chair Barclays, the Sunday Times reported. Fairhead ran the FT for seven years and is a non-executive director at HSBC. Davies is the Government's favourite troubl

London midday: Losses pared but geopolitics still a concern

- US authorises Iraq airstrikes - Fighting resumes in Gaza - TUI Travel and wider sector tumbles - Banks, supermarkets, precious metals limit losses techMARK 2,684.77 -0.93% FTSE 100 6,559.47 -0.57% FTSE 250 15,185.28 -0.36% UK stocks had pared early losses but were still firmly in the red by Frid

MOVES-Bank of England, Greenhill, Evercore, Willis Group

(Adds Willis Group) Aug 6 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Wednesday. To inform us of other job changes, email moves@thomsonreuters.com. BANK OF ENGLAND The Bank of England said its top insurance regulator, Julian Adams, was le

MOVES-Evercore hires Barclays' Mark Hanson as senior managing director

Aug 6 (Reuters) - Boutique investment bank Evercore Partners Inc said it hired Mark Hanson from Barclays Plc as a senior managing director for its healthcare group. Hanson, who was most recently managing director of investment banking in Barclays' healthcare group, will join Evercore in Oc

UPDATE 3-Standard Chartered in firing line of NY regulator again

* Identifies problems in computer surveillance system * Expects fine, extension of 2-year monitoring period * CEO says fine likely to be less than $340 million * H1 pretax profit down 20 pct, in line with guidance * Bank takes $175 mln hit for commodities fraud at China po

London midday: FTSE 100 near 6,600 as Ukraine crisis sinks stocks

- Russian troops amass along Ukraine border - UK, Italian and German data disappoints - Ex-dividend stocks fall - StanChart falls after results, Shire drops FTSE 100 6,604.48 -1.17% FTSE 250 15,162.03 -1.24% techMARK 2,708.06 -1.23% Fears about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine sparked a sell