Barclays needs central bank loan
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Barclays says a technical problem forced it to borrow Â£1.6bn and denies it is facing a cash crisis.
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China Development Bank and Temasek help with Barclays' bid for ABN.
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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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The Bank of England has offered an  emergency loan to Northern Rock after the mortgage lender  became the biggest British casualty so far of the credit  squeeze sparked by the crisis in U.S. subprime mortgage  markets.
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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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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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The Bank of England has agreed to provide emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock after it fell victim to the liquidity squeeze in the banking sector, media reports said on Thursday.
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Shares in Barclays Plc  raced to a new high as speculation mounted that Bank of America Corp.  could bid for the UK bank, even though a sale of shares by Barclays' outgoing chairman signaled no approach had been made.
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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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The Bank of England provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Northern Rock was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
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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.
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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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The European Central Bank lends money to banks at below-market rates as a means of tackling the credit crunch.
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Barclays is on the verge of buying control of South Africa&#39;s biggest retail bank, marking its return to the country where it infamously operated during the apartheid era.
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Barclays said it had struck a deal with China Development Bank and Temasek Holdings of Singapore.
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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, 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.