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...Although based in London, StanChart makes the majority of its profits in Asia out of its hubs in Hong Kong and Singapore, with the remaining earnings coming from the Middle East and Africa....
...In December, Barclays’ second-biggest shareholder, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, sold half of its stake worth £510mn....
...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...
...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...
...Following the change in corporate structure, the bank will be managed through five divisions: UK banking; UK corporate banking; private banking and wealth management; investment banking; and US consumer...
...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....
...So far, the foundation has donated $3mn to a collaboration between the World Bank and the Indonesian government to provide better nutrition and train “human development workers” in about 75,000 villages....
...The bank also said on Tuesday that it would shake up its corporate structure, with five new divisions ranging from retail banking to wealth management and investment banking....
...Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is slashing its stake in Barclays, the UK bank that is coming under pressure from investors to overhaul its strategy and improve its performance....
...In a letter to the Financial Times, Venkatakrishnan said the UK “badly needs” a development agency similar to those in Singapore, France and Ireland, which have a reputation for supporting businesses seeking...
...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....
...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’ 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....
...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....
...Chief Jane Fraser recently hired Andy Sieg, the former president of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, to revive the bank’s wealth business....
...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...
...Erik Meijaard, a conservation scientist focused on the region, said he hoped “other investment funds and banks will follow this lead”....
...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....
...Barclays executives considered, but ultimately shied away from, several radical options. The boldest involved raising capital to buy a wealth or asset management business....
...The overhaul is the latest attempt to galvanise profitability, which has long lagged behind rivals in the bank’s main markets of Singapore and Hong Kong....
...For the Asean’s biggest banks, most of which are based in Singapore, growth in income from loans could slow over the coming months....
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