Barclays

Remember This Bad Guy?

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK

Bob Diamond, the bank chief who quit in the wake of the Libor-rigging scandal, has claimed he knew nothing about how the interbank interest rate was s...

It's All No Change at the Top

Nick Abbot | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Politics
Nick Abbot

The real problem with any shareholder uprising against the undeserved meteoric rise in boardroom pay is that most shareholders couldn't care less what the people at the top pay themselves. Big institutional investors don't want to drive down executive rewards because they are also executives who want to get rewarded.

LOOK: 7 Pictures Of Rich Ricci Looking Like A Caricature

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK

Rich Ricci, the man with the most easily mockable name and most flamboyant dress sense in banking, will retire in June as CEO of Barclay's investment ...

Barclays Hands Bosses £40m Windfall.. On Budget Day

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.03.2013 | UK

Barclays investment banking chief Rich Ricci landed an £18 million windfall today after the bank handed out mammoth share awards to top bosses. Ri...

RBS And Barclays Reveal More Than 500 Staff Earned Over £1m

PA | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK

The scale of mammoth pay packages in the banking industry was laid bare today as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays revealed that over 500 workers be...

How Many Barclays Staff Are Paid More Than £1m A Year?

PA | Posted 08.03.2013 | UK

More than 400 workers at banking giant Barclays were paid £1 million or more last year, including five who got more than £5m, despite a year of scan...

Charlie Thomas

Will Spending £5m On Helping Young People Find Work Make You Like Barclays Again?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 07.03.2013 | UK

Barclays has launched a new campaign aimed at helping young people get into the workplace after school, putting £5 million of its own money into the ...

Mehdi's Morning Memo: 'Shall We Leave It At That?'

Huffington Post | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 27.02.2013 | UK Politics

The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 27 February 2013... 1) 'SHALL WE LEAVE IT AT THAT?' The Rennard affair rumbles on - with more and m...

Charlie Thomas

'By 2015, We Will Transform Barclays', Claims CEO Jenkins (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 12.02.2013 | UK

Barclays new chief executive Antony Jenkins has pledged to transform the bank and refocus its ideals in an attempt to win back trust. His reforms i...

3,700 Jobs To Go At Beleaguered Barclays

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 12.02.2013 | UK

Barclays is to cut 3,700 jobs, it has announced. The jobs to go are 1,800 investment banking posts and 1,900 in retail and business banking. Bar...

Barclays To Close Its Tax Avoidance Unit

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK

Banking giant Barclays is to close its tax avoidance unit, which gave advice to large companies on how to avoid paying out tax. It is thought new c...

'I am a villain. Yet I lie. I am not.'

Jane Sparrow | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK
Jane Sparrow

Bob Diamond has been publically mauled again this week. I'm not for one moment suggesting that anyone should feel sorry for him - the £100m in salary...

Charlie Thomas

'I'm Like A Whore's Drawers' - The Best Libor Fixing Quotes

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 06.02.2013 | UK

Following the news of the Royal Bank of Scotland's £400m fine for its role in the London inter bank offer rate (scandal), much laughter has been hear...

Charlie Thomas

Barclays Sets Another £1bn Aside For Mis Selling Scandals

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 05.02.2013 | UK

Two of the biggest mis-selling scandals to hit British banks has forced Barclays to put another £1bn aside for claims, just days ahead of its annual ...

Charlie Thomas

Financial Watchdog Bares Its Teeth At Banks Over Interest Rate Swaps

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK

Bad news for banks, but good news for businesses on Thursday - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it will investigate the mis-selling of ...

Charlie Thomas

PPI Complaints Are STILL Rising

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 29.01.2013 | UK

The payment protection insurance (PPI) furore is far from over, as new data from the financial ombudsman shoes almost half of the PPI complaints broug...

'Libor Rigging' Bankers' Attempts To Conceal Identities In High Court Fail

PA | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK

Scores of bankers have failed in a bid to prevent their names being revealed during preliminary hearings of a High Court case centred on the rigging o...

Bankers Want A Time Limit For PPI Claims - Should They Get It?

Charlie Thomas | Posted 18.01.2013 | UK

A bankers trade body has appealed to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to introduce a time limit for customers who were mis-sold payment protecti...

Barclays Staff Told To Sign Ethical Code Or Quit

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.01.2013 | UK

Barclays' staff have been told to sign up to an ethical code of conduct or quit in the bank's bid to repair its battered reputation. New chief exec...

Bonuses For RBS Bankers Shrink After Multi-Million Fine

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.12.2012 | UK

The bonus pot at state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland will shrink this year as the bank pays an estimated £350 million fine for its role in the interb...

Two UBS Traders Charged Over Rate-Rigging Scandal

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.12.2012 | UK

Two former UBS traders have been charged by United States prosecutors in connection with efforts to manipulate Libor interest rates. The US crimina...

UBS Given Biggest Fine Yet Over Libor Scandal After Admitting 'Unethical' Behaviour

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.12.2012 | UK

Swiss bank UBS has agreed to pay £940 million to regulators in the biggest penalty yet from the industry's Libor-rigging scandal. The settlement, ...

Charlie Thomas

Gamekeeper Turned Poacher - FSA's Sants Joins Barclays

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK

Hector Sants - the former head of the City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) - is to become a game keeper turned poacher after being app...

Why I Chose an Apprenticeship

Tyrone Apaloo-Taylor | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Tyrone Apaloo-Taylor

I've been in the programme for six months and looking back I am certain that I have made the right decision. Nobody is looking down on me because I didn't go to university; in fact it's quite opposite actually.

Three Arrested In Connection With Libor Rigging

PA | Posted 11.12.2012 | UK

Three men were arrested on Tuesday in connection with an investigation into the rigging of the interbank lending rate Libor, the Serious Fraud Office ...