Barclays buys US credit card firm
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Barclaycard, the UK&#39;s largest credit card provider, moved closer to making its first steps in the US market yesterday as its parent group, Barclays, snapped up Juniper Financial Corporation, the North American consumer credit firm, for ...
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said it had made an undisclosed offer for the wealth business of ING Securities Bank (France), a unit of Dutch banking giant ING Group.
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The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business.
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Standard Chartered, the Britain-based emerging markets bank, said it has agreed to buy Taiwan's Hsinchu International Bank for 1.2 billion US dollars (947 million euros).
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Department store group House of Fraser was today poised for a Â£25m (â¬36m) boost from a partnership with Barclaycard to run its store card scheme.
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Citigroup Inc., which long has sought to expand its retail banking operations to Texas, said Tuesday that it is acquiring the First American Bank of Bryan, Texas.
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Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered Plc said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy American Express Bank for around $860 million in cash to boost its private banking and correspondent banking services.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  has raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion), helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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LONDON, September 24  - Barclays Plc (BCY.FSE) witnessed a robust rally in its share price this morning, after the company disclosed its plans to buy a controlling stake the South African retail banking company, Absa, yesterday.
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UK lender Barclays is in talks with South Africa&#39;s Absa about buying a majority stake in the bank. The move would &quot;immediately&quot; boost earnings and profit, and &quot;enhance the bank&#39;s existing successful African operations&quot;, Barclays said.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British bank Barclays on Thursday said it is in talks to buy a majority stake in South African bank ABSA. Free!
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Bank of America agrees to buy mortgage firm Countrywide Financial, which has been hit by the credit crisis.
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Bank of New York Co.  on Monday agreed to buy Mellon Financial Corp. , one of the most storied names in American finance, for $16.5 billion, creating a powerhouse in asset management and in providing custody services to institutional investors.
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Citigroup Inc. C.N the world's  largest financial services company, said on Tuesday it will  acquire First American Bank in the quickly-growing Texas  market.
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US investment bank Lehman Brothers has offered to pay up to 800 million pounds (1.15 billion euros, 1.43 billion dollars) to buy British bankers Cazenove, the Financial Times reports.
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Barclays Bank  has agreed to pay about $10.9 million to settle charges of illegal insider trading in bond securities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday.
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Johannesburg - Britain&#39;s Barclays yesterday signalled a return to retail banking in South Africa after an absence of 18 years, saying it was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Absa, the country&#39;s biggest retail lender.