Barclays to double number of branches in Portugal
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Banking group Barclays plans to more than double the number of its branches in Portugal to 174 from the current 86 by September 2007, the president of the bank's Portuguese division said.
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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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The UK's third biggest bank Barclays sees annual pre-tax profits rise to record levels boosted by a sharp rise in business at its investment division.
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Santander Central Hispano SA, the largest bank in Spain and Latin America, almost doubled third- quarter profit on gains at its European consumer lending business and the sale of a stake in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc.
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The number of overseas executives moving to the UK has more than doubled over the past 10 years, a survey says.
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Barclays&#39; share price rose on Friday after Britain&#39;s third biggest bank denied it is facing liquidity problems despite being forced to borrow 1.6 billion pounds (2.4 billion euros, 3.2 billion dollars) from the Bank of England.
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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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HSBC  is poised to put hundreds  of its French regional retail branches up for sale, a further  sign the bank is shifting its focus to emerging markets,  according to media reports on Sunday.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) on Monday, helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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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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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc, the UK&#39;s third- biggest bank, agreed to buy Juniper Financial Corp. from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash to expand into the world&#39;s biggest credit card market.
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Two of the UK's largest banks will this week boost the financial sector by increasing dividend payments, a report says.
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BARCLAYS has started talks with Absa, South Africaâs largest retail bank, in one of its first moves under the leadership of John Varley.
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Fund manager Franklin Templeton launched 38 new funds in Singapore on Sunday, more than doubling its fund offerings in the city-state as it seeks to tap growing wealth management opportunities in Asia.
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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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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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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Barclays will raise its offer for ABN Amro to $93.2 billion, with help from two Asian financial partners, in the face of a rival bid led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank said Monday.