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...Barclays wants its investment bank to have more-or-less the same cost base and risk-weighted assets in 2026 as 2023, but says it will be generating between £2bn and £3bn more in revenues....
...Not including the group function, these will be: Barclays UK, private bank and wealth (which since 2021 has averaged 31 per cent Rote), the US consumer bank, the UK corporate bank and an independent investment...
...The bank said that without that reduction, bonuses would be down 15 per cent this year. Barclays is one of the first banks to outline its cut to bonuses following a brutal year for investment banking....
...Barclays has resolved not to cave to critics who want to see the volatile and low-returning investment bank shrunk....
...Next week, Barclays boss CS Venkatakrishnan — known as Venkat — must offer a plausible fix for this at the bank’s first strategy overhaul in almost a decade....
...But investors disagreed, worried that the sale left Barclays over dependent on the investment bank....
...Barclays announced new management for most of those divisions on Tuesday, with the investment bank being co-led by four people....
...Barclays has announced a plan to return £10bn to shareholders over the next three years as chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan attempts to revive the UK bank’s languishing share price....
...Barclays said conditions were in place for Europe’s equity rally, which has kept pace with Wall Street so far this year, to continue....
...Barclays awarded smaller bonuses in 2023 and gave its chief executive a smaller pay package, as the UK bank sought to revamp its strategy and galvanise its share price....
...Blackstone’s credit and insurance division will buy the US credit card receivables from Barclays for an undisclosed sum, and the bank will continue to service the accounts for a fee....
...The bank said on Friday that it would take on Tesco Bank’s credit cards and unsecured personal loans, totalling about £8.3bn of lending balances....
...Private-credit funds are on track for their outright decline in gross capital distributions for the first time since 2020, the bank points out: As Barclays puts it: In our view, the suppression in private...
...Barclays’ UK consumer bank division generates the highest return on tangible equity, a key measure of profitability, while consuming much less capital than its investment bank, according to JPMorgan....
...In today’s newsletter: Barclays plots another revamp Two credit card giants combine Dell backs new private credit firm Barclays boss unveils his plan to revive the bank Barclays’ most important strategy...
...Big share price moves in Europe today include British mining giant Anglo American, London-based bank Barclays and Amsterdam-listed payment company Adyen....
...Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan has called for the UK to create an economic development agency to drive long-term growth and depoliticise industrial policymaking....
...Barclays will pay CWG an undisclosed sum to be released from its obligations at the 12-storey building also known as 5 North Colonnade, formerly home to Barclays investment bank....
...Cambridge and most of its 31 colleges bank either with Barclays or Lloyds, according to a bursar at one of the colleges....
...Not fast enough for Barclays, however. The UK bank held its long-awaited strategy day this week, aiming to lay to rest the endless questions about the low returns of its investment bank....
...Barclays will from Wednesday offer a two-year fix at 4.17 per cent, down from 4.62 per cent, for borrowers with a 40 per cent deposit....
...Canary Wharf Group said the bank has agreed a five-year lease extension on its 32-story tower at One Churchill Place....
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