House of Fraser Seals Barclaycard Deal
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Department store group House of Fraser was today poised for a Â£25 million boost from a partnership with Barclaycard to run its store card scheme.
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Citigroup&#39;s European headquarters in London has been sold to a consortium led by an Irish private-equity company for 1.0 billion pounds (1.48 billion euros, 2.01 billion dollars), the buyers said Monday.
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South African banking group Absa said that friendly talks with prospective buyer Barclays, Britain's third largest bank, were "progressing".
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The European Commission, executive arm of the European Union, on Wednesday cleared acquisition of Britain&#39;s sixth largest bank Abbey National by Spain&#39;s largest bank Banco Santander Central Hispano.
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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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Apartheid protesters forced bank out 18 years ago. Now it is in talks about buying a Â£2bn stake. Barclays is planning a major return to South Africa by buying a Â£2bn stake in the country&#39;s largest retail
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- UK bank Barclays said Wednesday it has agreed to buy credit-card issuer Juniper Financial from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash.
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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 is close to raising some Â£10bn from China and Singapore to back its takeover of a Dutch bank.
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A new contactless credit card, combined with a London transport Oyster card, is to be launched by Barclays.
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The bid by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and two other European banks topped an offer by Barclays.
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Barclays will acquire 1.7 million Goldfish and affinity card accounts with about $4 billion of receivables and take Goldfishâs brand, staff and facilities.
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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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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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THE Financial Services Authority today said it had given the green light to Banco Santander Central Hispano&#39;s takeover of Abbey National.
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LONDON   British bank Barclays PLC gained its first toehold in the US consumer banking market Wednesday, saying it would buy credit-card company Juniper Financial Corp. from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash.
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Barclays Bank  is confident  of winning the bid battle for Dutch bank ABN AMRO NV  , a senior Barclays executive said on Tuesday.