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...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....
...She did not rule out the possibility of Barclays launching new ETNs if the demand was there....
...Barclays is planning to cut about 50 senior dealmakers, Financial News reports....
...Sir John Kingman, an ex-Treasury official who oversaw the bailout of the British banking system during the financial crisis, will join Barclays as chair of its UK retail division in June as part of a board...
...Barclays had a golden opportunity to be a dominant player when its Global Investors arm developed a family of World Equity Benchmark Series (WEBS) ETFs in conjunction with Morgan Stanley in 1996....
...Medical apparel group Figs has appointed former Procter & Gamble chief executive AG Lafley, Credit Karma chief executive Kenneth Lin and Amazon’s former head of consumer Jeff Wilke to its board....
...Job moves Barclays has appointed Pier Luigi Colizzi, currently head of M&A for Europe, Middle East and Africa, as head of investment banking for continental Europe....
...“Just seven of the 21 gender strategies we have identified in our global database survived and outperformed their respective benchmarks in 2020,” said Kenneth Lamont, senior fund analyst for passive funds...
...Job moves Barclays has hired Taalib Shaah as its chief risk officer after CS Venkatakrishnan was made global head of markets....
...With BlackRock’s transformational $13.5bn acquisition of the investment management business of Barclays a decade ago, Mr Fink positioned the almost $7tn asset manager to benefit from investors’ dramatic...
...Even the US bond market, measured by a Bloomberg Barclays index, returned 10.4 per cent in the first 11 months of the year....
...Five other managers — Barclays, UBS, Credit Suisse, ProShares and VelocityShares — have been forced to close a total of 10 leveraged ETPs linked to the oil market since the start of March....
...Skadden has hired Kenneth Held as a partner in the law firm’s litigation practice in Houston. He joins from rival Thompson & Knight....
...One thing to start: Activist Edward Bramson’s campaign to secure a board seat at Barclays was defeated. In fact, he was thumped. More here....
...Stephen Barclay, Brexit secretary, said after the vote: “The only option is to find a way through which allows the UK to leave with a deal....
...(FT) Turning tide Kenneth Fisher, a master of marketing, built up a fund that managed more than $100bn in assets on behalf of investors....
...“From our perspective the positives now far outweigh the negatives,” said Kenneth Akintewe, head of Asian sovereign debt at Aberdeen Standard Investments, noting improved access to the market....
...In Linwood Barclay’s latest, Connecticut professor Paul Davis is battered unconscious with a shovel when he stumbles across a colleague, Kenneth Hoffman, attempting to dispose of the bodies of two women....
...The transition from Reginald Kenneth Dwight — a name he once said made him sound like a cement mixer — to Elton Hercules John was about self-realisation, not role-play....
..., rather than Kenneth Wolstenholme’s “They think it’s all over . . . it is now” — went largely unheard internationally....
...So far, the Bloomberg-Barclays Global Aggregate Index has said it will add some categories of Chinese bonds starting in April 2019 while two other indices, Citi WGBI and the JPMorgan GBI-EM, are widely expected...
...Barclays has hired James Binns and Robin Terry into senior roles in its transaction banking business. Binns joins from Deutsche Bank as global head of trade and working capital....
...Bank of America has hired Kenneth Leung from Citigroup. Leung will join BofA in June as Asia head of financial sponsors, according to Bloomberg....
...Before joining the firms, Llinares worked at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. US law firm Orrick has hired Jinsong (“Jeff”) Zhang as a partner in its M&A and private equity practice....
...As longtime chairman and chief executive Kenneth Chenault prepares to hand over the reins to colleague Stephen Squeri, Amex has found itself fighting an intense “rewards war” for customers....
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