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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Absa Capital , the investment banking unit of Barclays Plc’s Absa Group Ltd. , is hiring bankers from Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. as it builds an equities trading business to expand its services.
NEW YORK----Barclays Bank PLC announces the launch of its iPath Exchange Traded Notes platform in Canada with the cross-listing of seven iPath® ETNs on Toronto Stock Exchange. The iPath ETNs are linked to equity volatility, currencies and the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite strategy.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. announced today that its board of directors has authorized a $100 million increase to the company's existing share repurchase program.
Masked robbers held up a Crystal Palace bank at gunpoint on Friday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc , sued three times last month over an alleged “secret” $5 billion windfall profit from its purchase of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Motorists using a busy Leyland car park got a nasty shock when five cars were clamped in just 15 minutes.
As Africa's financial system was not highly integrated with America's or Europe's, it was not so heavily impacted by the global financial crisis.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Telemar Norte Leste SA and Vivo Participacoes SA fell the most in five weeks after Barclays Plc reiterated a “negative view” on Brazil’s telephone industry as competition increases and profitability remains “poor.”
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Telemar Norte Leste SA and Vivo Participacoes SA led a drop in Brazilian telephone stocks after Barclays Plc reiterated a “negative view” on the industry as competition increases and profitability remains “poor.”
Network Rail has announced the appointment of a new director of information management, Susan Cooklin. Cooklin takes over from Catherine Doran,...
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Vivo Participacoes SA and other Brazilian phone companies are trading at “hard to justify” valuations as competition is poised to increase and profitability remains “poor,” Barclays Plc said.
Credible information reaching The Chronicle indicates that powerbrokers and influence peddlers close to the Presidency, are putting excessive pressure on the government to hand-pick the Managing Director (MD) of Stanbic Bank, Mr. Alhassan Andani, for the position of Managing Director of the nation’s biggest bank, the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), to succeed Lawrence Adu Mante.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc President Robert Diamond said plans to impose a windfall tax on bankers’ bonuses are unwarranted, and that the U.K. risks regulatory missteps that would put London at a competitive disadvantage.
GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. acquires Germany's vcare Infosystems AG
Johannesburg — IT's nearly Christmas, which means it's time to count our blessings. There is one blessing that we should be thankful for above all, and that is the global economic rebound.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Creditors of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. objected to Barclays Plc ’s request for sale- related documents, saying the bank isn’t entitled to confidential communications between creditors and their lawyers.
