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British lender Barclays Plc (BCS, BARC.L) announced Sunday that Group Finance Director Chris Lucas and Group General Counsel Mark Harding will be retiring from the company.

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Bond-research firm Gimme Credit took Barclays PLC (BARC.LN) to task Wednesday for bonds that threaten to leave investors penniless if the financial firm hits hard times.

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British banking giant Barclays Plc's (BCS, BARC.L) Chairman Marcus Agius faced British lawmakers Tuesday as part of the investigation into the bank's attempt to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor.

Rating agencies Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Moody's Investors Service on Thursday cut their respective outlook on battered British banking giant Barclays Bank Plc (BCS, BARC.L) to 'negative' from 'stable'.

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While the euro has been surprisingly strong lately, it is set to come under more pressure, says Barclays Capital. The euro has held up well in recent weeks despite the continued turmoil in the euro zone,

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LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England's February Inflation Report and the subsequent press conference by Bank of England Governor Mervyn King may have been viewed as dovish in some markets, but following its publication ...

ForexPros.com - Forex Pros - The pound rose against the U.S.

Says allow for temporary GBP/USD rally before greater bear-trend resumes.

The going acronym for Europe’s fiscal deviants - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, aka PIIGS - is out at Barclays Capital, according to several reports.

Deutsche Bank still sees and as attractive credit-risk recovery plays and has them as top picks for ‘10 along with Credit Suisse

The markets have firmly settled into their winter hibernation period, say Barclays Capital analysts, while tweaking their outlook for investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Barclays analysts cite “the mean

Researchers over at Barclays Capital are out with their quarterly global outlook report, which focuses on how financial markets will react to eventual relaxation of the Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily accommodative posture.

Barclays earlier reported profits for the three months to September had more than tripled after a strong performance from its investment banking business.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is running out of time to come up with a smoking gun to prove speculators were behind last year’s spike in commodity prices, Barclays Capital says in a note to clients.

According to the Financial Times on Sunday, U.K.-based financial services provider Barclays plc (BCS, BARC.L) is planning to spin off its GBP 4 billion portfolio of complex low-quality credit assets as part of an ongoing process to further reduce its expo

Barclays Capital has launched PowerFill+, a suite of online foreign exchange tools providing clients with revolutionary order management and access to deeper liquidity.

A research piece from Barcap says that if the US dollar were to fall to 55% of global reserves, the United States would be in danger of losing its AAA bond rating.

One factor that may be helping undermine the pound slightly is the fact that the Barclays the terms of the sale of BGI to Blackrock call for only about half the purchase price to be paid in cash.

Barclays are presently in talks with Blackrock, others on BGI sale.

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American depository receipts of Barclays are down roughly 11% after a key investor who arrived to rescue the British institution at the height of last year’s financial crisis — and was touted as a long-term investor —

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We checked in with Barclays Capital strategist Barry Knapp for his two cents on what’s driving the big bounce in the markets today.

Barclays has announced its sold its ishares business to Blue Sparkle LP for $4.0 bln.

British financial services company Barclays Plc (BCS, BARC.L) is in exclusive talks to sell its exchange-traded funds business, iShares, to CVC Capital Partners Ltd.

Barclays Capital has� launched the Barclays Capital Trade-Weighted Dollar Bull Index™ (“Dollar Bull Index”) and the Barclays Capital Trade-Weighted Dollar Diversification Index™ (“Dollar Diversification Index”).

Lloyds Banking Group also sharply higher — up 6.69%

Barclays faces damaging allegations about tax-avoidance schemes.

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U.K.-based bank Barclays plc (BCS, BARC.L) is exploring the sale of its exchange-traded funds business, which is part of its asset management division, in a bid to bolster its capital base and to avoid turning to the U.K.

Barclays Global Investors, the giant manager of mostly index funds and ETFs is on the market, the UK press reports.

Shares trade at 57.8, from 56.30 just before the announcement.

Barclays analysts cut their price targets on Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The GS price target is now $100, don from $135, with an equal-weight recommendation. The MS target is down to $30 from $32, also

GBP remains weighed down at mid-afternoon with concerns over the fate of the bulk of the UK banking sector falling under government control growing.

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – The Dollar continues rallying against the Yen, from 87.10 low on Jan 21, the Dollar has risen past 3-month high at 98.70 and, above 99.00 crawls towards psychological resistance at 100.00, the pair is heavily overbought

Standard Chartered defies the trend, up 2%.

Barclays said 2009 will be a challenging year, with recession conditions in many of its markets.

Barclays’ earnings are due on Monday, February 9. The UK bank is still sticking to its January 26 forecasts that profits will be ‘well ahead’ of consensus forecasts around GBP 5.3 billion, includin

- Australian Dollar Under Pressure Ahead of RBA Rate Decision - Euro Bounces from Technical Support Versus US Dollar, British Pound - British Pound Pummeled by Moody’s Downgrade of Barclays’ Debt US Dollar, Japanese Yen Gain on Concerns Ab

Barclays Capital recently completed the integration of Lehman Brothers’ North American business, but not all are happy about it at the British bank’s London offices, according to several Barclays’ investment bankers.

Barclays Plc will begin the first round of job cuts in its investment banking and investment management (IBIM) units on Monday, February 2, a Barclays Capital spokesman told NTKN. He said staff consultations were ongoing, and c

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Dollar and Yen Fall on Barclays Optimism The dollar declined on Monday as rising stock markets worldwide reduced safe haven flows.

GBP bounced after Barclays’ share price rise, which came in the wake of news that it will announce a 2008 profit of GBP 5.3 bln in two weeks’ time.

A Barclays spokeman said that the bank knows no justification for the fall in its share price, and said that its full-year 2008 results will be reported on February 17. Barclays’ shares fell for the seventh day in a r

Alistair Darling was on Monday night battling to avoid fully nationalising Royal Bank of Scotland after the state-controlled lender suffered a 67% plunge in its share price when it revealed the biggest loss in Britain’s corporate histor

UK-based financial services provider Barclays plc (BCS) Monday said in a statement, issued in view of the recent share price movement, that it expects to report fiscal 2008 pre-tax profit after all costs, impairment and market valuations well ahead of sel

Sterling has come under renewed pressure as Barclays stock is hammered down by 25%, reportedly on fresh write-off concerns, and the return of short selling in the U.K.

Barclays Stockbrokers has launched spot FX on BARX.

Barclays Capital has launched PowerFill Orders which gives clients a new range of FX functionality on BARX, the banks’ e-commerce platform.

Barclays Capital has launched electronic trading of vanilla FX options in Asia.

Barclays Capital has launched electronic trading of vanilla FX options on its proprietary platform, BARX for FX Trading.

Following its successful launch earlier this year of Precision Pricing - pricing in tradable increments down to 1/10 of a pip - Barclays Capitals award winning platform BARX for FX Trading continues to be committed to providing the fastest and most flexib

With increasing client demand for direct access to pricing and tools across multiple asset classes, Barclays Capital continues to add new markets and features to its BARX Ecommerce solution.

Barclays Capital has launched Precision Pricing, an additional decimal place to the prices shown on screen.

Barclays Capital has introduced additional decimal places across its e-FX products.

Barclays Capital has become a Prime Bank for EBSTM.

The release of version 5 of Barclays Capital FX Trader has proved to be a great success for Barclays Capital with the number of active users increasing by 25% in the last month.Version

Barclays Capitals FX Trader is continuing its success with the recently added Money Markets functionality which includes live streaming tradable deposit rates in nine currencies, multiple account execution and real time reporting available to front and ba

Barclays has leveraged expertise from across the Barclays group in its development of a new online FX trading platform.

Barclays Capital is continuing to develop its FX Trader platform suite and has recently added Money Markets functionality, to include live streaming tradable deposit rates in 9 currencies, multiple account execution and with real time reporting available

Barclays Capital is continuing to develop its FX Trader platform.

Barclays Stockbrokers has launched spot FX on BARX.

Barclays Capital has launched PowerFill Orders which gives clients a new range of FX functionality on BARX, the banks’ e-commerce platform.

Barclays Capital has launched electronic trading of vanilla FX options in Asia.

Barclays Capital has launched electronic trading of vanilla FX options on its proprietary platform, BARX for FX Trading.

Following its successful launch earlier this year of Precision Pricing - pricing in tradable increments down to 1/10 of a pip - Barclays Capitals award winning platform BARX for FX Trading continues to be committed to providing the fastest and most flexib

With increasing client demand for direct access to pricing and tools across multiple asset classes, Barclays Capital continues to add new markets and features to its BARX Ecommerce solution.

Barclays Capital has launched Precision Pricing, an additional decimal place to the prices shown on screen.

Barclays Capital has introduced additional decimal places across its e-FX products.

Barclays Capital has become a Prime Bank for EBSTM.

The release of version 5 of Barclays Capital FX Trader has proved to be a great success for Barclays Capital with the number of active users increasing by 25% in the last month.Version

Barclays Capitals FX Trader is continuing its success with the recently added Money Markets functionality which includes live streaming tradable deposit rates in nine currencies, multiple account execution and real time reporting available to front and ba

Barclays has leveraged expertise from across the Barclays group in its development of a new online FX trading platform.

Barclays Capital is continuing to develop its FX Trader platform suite and has recently added Money Markets functionality, to include live streaming tradable deposit rates in 9 currencies, multiple account execution and with real time reporting available

Barclays Capital is continuing to develop its FX Trader platform.