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Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Australia is not the only developed nation that believes it has a financial literacy and awareness problem as Barclays Bank in the UK has just released the results of a study that found Britain may have an even worse problem. The study found 36% of ...

Barclays cops $80,000 fine

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Barclays Bank has been fined by ASIC for breaching the corporations Act and withdrawing $13.8 million of client segregated accounts money without authorisation. The corporate watch dog yesterday confirmed that Barclays had paid an infringement penalty ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... to 7,305.21 points and in Paris the CAC 40 dipped by 0.14 per cent to 3,401.20. French fund manager Renaud Murail at Barclays Bourse said: "The market is in wait-and-see mode, with very thin volumes in the past few days." Madrid's IBEX 35 index was off ...

Peak in investment spend to herald lower growth: Barclays economist

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... significant growth slowdown in 2014. This was the overarching conclusion that Kieran Davies chief Australian economist with Barclays Bank left with delegates attending yesterday's Portfolio Risk Management forum hosted by Financial Standard. "It will ...

ipac securities awards Vinva $1.2bn mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... monitoring the progress of Vinva since it was formed in 2010 by a team of veteran investors that previously worked together at Barclays Global Investors. Based on its forward looking view of who was better positioned for the next two to three years ...

BlackRock loses $1.2 billion iPac Securities mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... lost fees," said Alex Dunnin, director of research & editorial services at Rainmaker. At the time of the merger with Barclays Global Investors in December 2009, BlackRock had $50 billion of assets under management - today it has approximately $46 billion. ...

Investment banking scale down: Barclays

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
British bank Barclays may scale down its investment banking arm, after new chief executive Antony Jenkins said new regulations would "make some activities in investment banking difficult to make an adequate return on." He said profits would be hit by ...

Barclays announces new CEO amid new investigation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
Barclays has named head of retail and business banking Anthony Jenkins new chief executive, just one day after the announcement the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had launched an investigation into a 2008 deal with Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. Jenkins ...

Instreet launches structured product

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... designed to perform in subdued markets. George Lucas managing director at Instreet said it provides a three-year exposure to Barclays ComBATS VOLT 5.0% Excess Return Index. "What makes this product different is the low breakeven of 2% over the three-year ...

Corporate bonds stagnant in Australia

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... said they still need to be aware of the sector's risks. Corporate and securitised bonds comprise $55bn or 10% of the Barclays Capital Australian Aggregate Bond Index. Tim Haywood, investment director business-unit head for fixed income at GAM said that ...