Football: Barclays nets new deal
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Barclays renews its sponsorship deal with the FA Premier League in a contract worth Â£65.8m until 2010.
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Plenty of goals came courtesy of new summer signings in the Premiership Saturday but, despite an air of fresh promise abounding, there was still a familiar feel to proceedings.
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British bank Barclays has raised its offer for ABN AMRO to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included some cash, helped by major investment from state authorities in China and Singapore.
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Barclays Bank Plc  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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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, has said that net profit surged by 33 percent to a record 4.571 billion pounds (6.782 billion euros, 8.906 billion dollars) in 2006, lifted by its investment banking arm.
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Barclays Bank wins the backing of most of its investors to go ahead with its takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro.
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, have extended their sponsorship of the English Premiership until 2010 in a deal worth 65.8 million pounds.
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Barclays is close to raising enough  finance to carry out its attempted takeover of the Dutch bank, ABN.
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Banking group Barclays today took the first steps towards establishing its Barclaycard operation in the United States credit card market.
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Manchester United today ended the uncertainty over Wes Brown&#39;s future at the club by announcing the central defender has agreed a new four-year contract.
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British bank Barclays sweetened its takeover bid for Dutch rival ABN Amro on Monday by including a cash element as part of a revised informal offer worth 67.5 billion euros (93.3 billion dollars).
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Chelsea finalised a deal to sign Lokomotiv Moscow defender Branislav Ivanovic on Monday.
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING  - Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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UK lender Barclays says it is in talks with South Africa's Absa about buying a majority stake in the bank.
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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.
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The British soccer club Manchester United said on Monday that it had received a preliminary takeover offer, which one person close to the talks said was from the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Malcolm Glazer.
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Britain's Barclays  has raised its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included a cash element as it seeks to regain the initiative in the world's biggest bank takeover battle.