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Investment banking scale down: Barclays

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... with immediate effect on Thursday last week. He replaced former chief executive Bob Diamond, who resigned in July over the Libor rate-rigging scandal. Barclays also revealed last week the Serious Fraud Office was probing payments made to Qatar Holding ...

Barclays announces new CEO amid new investigation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... sovereign wealth fund. Jenkins has been brought in to replace Bob Diamond, who resigned last month amid the scandal over rigging Libor and Euribor rates which saw the bank pay a record 290 million pound fine. "We have made serious mistakes in recent ...

Barclays chief resigns

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned after coming under fire from both politicians and regulators in the wake of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal. In stepping down, Diamond said the "external pressure placed on Barclays has reached a level ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... responsibility by standing aside." Agius also stepped down as chairman of the British Bankers' Association, which announces Libor rates each working day. In a letter to employees sent last night, Robert Diamond, chief executive of Barclays since 2011 ...

Barclays fined $A451 million

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... would forego their annual bonuses this year. The breach was discovered after an investigation into lending rates (called Libor and Euribor) reported by banks in the United Kingdom. The Libor and Euribor rates are benchmark reference rates that indicate ...

Private debt market imbalance to last years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... for a safe haven for their clients' capital will find the returns offered by senior secured debt - typically at Euribor/Libor + 4.5-6.0% in Europe and at Libor + 5.0-6.5% in the US - and by mezzanine - at 12-14% for Europe and 13-14% in the US - attractive ...

US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... spill. Tighter US financial regulation. And coming to a theatre near you...renewed tension in the Korean Peninsula and rising LIBOR rates. Take your pick. It's so easy to expand on any or all of these factors to provide one bearish scenario. We already ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... investor's liability is capped. Credit Suisse offers four types of portfolios with return expectations ranging from three-month LIBOR plus 3 per cent to as much as three-month LIBOR plus 20 per cent per year. Niklaus Hilti, the group's Zurich-based head ...

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... indicators. For instance, current indications show that credit markets have returned to normality. The US dollar 3-month LIBOR/OIS spread - a measure of banks' willingness to lend to each other - is back to its historical norm of around 10 basis points. ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... crisis, clients who stayed in the fund look set to gain 20 per cent-plus returns this year, more than the fund's target of LIBOR plus 15 per cent annual return. "I think we're on track to have the best performance year ever in the flagship Credit Alternatives ...