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...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....
...On an annual basis, Barclays’ group net profit fell 15 per cent to £4.3bn in 2023....
...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....
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...He joined last year from Barclays as co-head of M&A for the Americas. Marc-Anthony Hourihan has been appointed chair of global M&A, alongside Scott Lindsay and Robin Rankin....
...“double dummy”, “Up-C”, “Morris Trust”, “reverse triangular” (which honestly sounds like something very different). Well, these might finally matter now....
...European and UK banks, such as Santander and Barclays, have used SRTs in a small way for many years. Now US lenders are getting in on the action....
...This was not always the case: the proportion of variable rate debt has fallen sharply over the last decade, from a peak of c.70% in 2012....
...Barclays has hired Stephen Pick as head of mergers and acquisitions for Emea in London. He previously worked at UBS and Credit Suisse....
...The Barclay family is still trying to secure its own investment from the Middle East to help buy back the newspaper group, which could fetch more than £500mn in the auction....
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...to brokers A dozen years ago, Bob Diamond and Rich Ricci stood at the pinnacle of British finance atop Barclays....
...Ørsted’s C-suite must be feeling the chill. The Danish renewable energy developer is badly exposed to icy blasts blowing through its industry....
...“We had a lot of good news in recent months, helped by falls in inflation,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...He was the only person in the bullpen showing me funny stuff from the internet,” said Kevin Cullinane, a colleague at Jefferies, now a director at Barclays....
...That question is no doubt a source of frustration for Barclays chief executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) and shareholders alike....
...anniversary as the chief executive of Barclays, the global bank....
...This would have allowed Barclays to generate more cash to return to investors in the form of dividends and buybacks. “Barclays’ numbers raise a lot of questions . . ....
...Measured by volume or by value, deal flow rose in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with the quarter before: Better vibes in the C-suite....
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...One thing to start: Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, the second-biggest investor in UK bank Barclays, is slashing its stake by dumping roughly £510mn in shares. Details here....
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