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Awfully sorry, but Barclays looks in pretty good shape

30.10.09
Rebuilding Britain's banks: While most banking bosses stuggled to say the "s" word, the chief executive of Barclays, John Varley, has spent the last year saying sorry... more

Barclays’ warning to regulators over bonuses

19.10.09
Barclays chairman Marcus Agius has warned UK regulators that they cannot afford to be tougher on banks than financial authorities in other countries such as the United States ... more

Cowdery is no Quaker, but Montague has done his best

05.10.09
When I visited the office of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius recently, he proudly showed me a corridor, the walls of which were covered with portraits of the bank’s founders. Quakers. ... more

Barclays chief aiming to stave off strike over pension change

06.08.09
The chairman of Barclays attempted to pacify workers furious over the bank’s proposals to scrap its final salary pension scheme ... more

Washington insider beefs up Barclays

16.07.09
Barclays Bank moved to beef up its board, hiring an American with close ties to the Washington government establishment ... more

Jaguar is eager to prove it is not just about The Body

13.07.09
There was a curious sight outside the Saatchi Gallery on the Kings Road at lunchtime a couple of days ago. A group of a dozen or so grown men, and a few well-groomed women, excitedly gathered around two new gleaming Jaguar cars, which had stopped by the kerb... more

Chairmen must face an annual test

18.05.09
It was suggested here last Monday that it would be best if Sir Victor Blank stood down as chairman of Lloyds Banking Group rather than put the business through the strains of a shareholder revolt against his re-election. That is the decision he has wisely taken and he can now move on.... more

This cars idea might be fit for the scrap heap

24.04.09
Just how brilliant is the car “scrappage” scheme in the Budget? It’s designed to stimulate the car industry but only £1000 of the £2000 paid to the owner of an old banger trading it in against a brand-new model, comes from the taxpayer; the rest is provided by the car industry... more

A very orderly riot, and a professional job by Agius

23.04.09
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Barclays £11bn loans pledge as investors vote

23.04.09
Barclays will lend an extra £11 billion to householders and business in the coming year, chief executive John Varley said... more

Goldman swallow doesn't make a summer for banks

16.04.09
Goldman Sachs certainly put the cat among the pigeons when it released its first-quarter numbers on Monday night. That was nearly 24 hours ahead of schedule, and many of us thought we were still on our Easter break. ... more

Let’s see how many days these superchairs clock up

09.04.09
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Pay bonanza of the City's part-time string-pullers

07.04.09
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Barclays ready to talk about talks

09.03.09
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Campaign to oust Barclays boss Agius

06.03.09
Barclays chairman Marcus Agius is facing growing pressure to announce his retirement from the bank's board ahead of its annual shareholder meeting next month... more

Treasury Select Committee MPs don't have a clue

12.02.09
The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. ... more

Watch Tesco play the bank card

27.01.09
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Shares surge as Barclays says it is in good health but takes hit of £8 billion

26.01.09
Banking: Shares jumped as much as 76% today after bank said credit-market losses had not damaged its financial security... more

If everything in the garden’s lovely, why are we so twitchy?

26.01.09
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Diamond and Agius to host Davos dinner

26.01.09
Davos: Barclays execs were today set to press ahead with glittering Davos event despite sense of crisis engulfing the bank ... more

Barclays in shares surge after £8bn writedown

26.01.09
Banking: Bank today admitted to credit market losses last year but again denied that it faced financial problems... more

Too thin on top talent at the banks

29.12.08
One of the more interesting kites being flown over the weekend was the suggestion that Royal Bank of Scotland might find the chairman to replace Sir Tom McKillop in either Standard Chartered's Mervyn Davies or Sir Keith Whitson, who retired as chief executive of HSBC in 2003 after a 40-year stint at the bank.... more

Naked truth as tide goes out

25.11.08
Warren Buffett's comment about finding out who is not wearing swimming trunks when the tide goes out is extremely telling ... more

Barclays raiser backed

24.11.08
Barclays today won shareholder backing for its highly controversial £7 billion fundraising, for which most of the money comes from Qatar and Abu Dhabi... more

Barclays' £7bn Mid-East bailout to get go-ahead

14.11.08
Barclays' £7 billion bailout, mainly from Middle Eastern investors, looks increasingly likely to go ahead even as the bank's existing shareholders vent their frustration at the terms of the deal... more

Barclays' crucial poker game

13.11.08
The row between Barclays and its shareholders over the bank's plan to raise new capital from sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East is a wonderful mix of posturing and principle, pique and pay, set against the background of the biggest poker game the business world has seen... more

Now Lloyds sends in the old-fashioned bankers

18.09.08
It's painful to say so, but HBOS really doesn’t deserve to survive as an independent bank... more

Barclays' way is better, but it's still pretty grim

26.06.08
While it may show the others how to do it, the Barclays solution still smacks of desperation... more

Barclays' worries ease as wealth funds stump up

16.06.08
Barclays said it was close to finalising a huge fundraising, and told the stock market its May profits were well ahead of last year's... more

Arrogant banks must be brought to account

28.04.08
Driving into work the other morning I thought I was hearing things. Sir Fred Goodwin, said the commentator, should keep his job because the £12 billion rights issue is the Royal Bank of Scotland boss keeping his side of the bargain to help out the country. ... more

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