Barclays settles credit derivative dispute
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Barclays has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to German state bank HSH Nordbank to settle a closely watched dispute over the management of a credit derivative known as a collateralised debt obligation, ...
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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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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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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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HIGH STREET banking group Lloyds TSB has put aside Â£110m to cover claims for compensation over endowment mis-selling. In a trading statement, the bank said the extra provision would be made in its 2004 accounts
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Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have agreed to pay $40 million each to settle charges that they tried to manipulate the prices of hot IPO stocks, US regulators said yesterday.
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British bank Barclays, which has made a friendly takeover offer for Dutch group ABN Amro, has pledged to invest 20 million euros in the business department of Amsterdam university if it wins the deal, a university spokesman said on Tuesday.
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority
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Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK banking giant, is being sued over claims it failed to properly manage a portfolio of bonds.
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Financial-services giant Citigroup Inc. will pay $250,000 to settle allegations it used misleading sales material on hedge funds, the National Association of Securities Dealers announced Monday.
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The global credit crisis struck a leading British mortgage lender Friday as the Bank of England said it had approved emergency funding to help the bank overcome a liquidity crisis.
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after striking a deal with China and Singapore.
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Shareholders in British bank Barclays on Friday backed a bid to acquire ABN Amro of The Netherlands after Barclays mangement assured them the deal would not be done at any price.
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Barclays, the UK banking giant, is being sued for around $150m by HSH Nordbank over losses the German regional bank alleges it made by investing in sophisticated bonds.
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Barclays is close to raising some Â£10bn from China and Singapore to back its takeover of a Dutch bank.
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Barclays, the UK's third-biggest bank, has said that interim net profits soared 25.3 percent, with strong investment banking offsetting a jump in bad consumer-loan write-offs.
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The Bank of England agrees to give emergency financial support to mortgage lenders Northern Rock.