Search Results for: Barclays Bank
FCA fines Barclays £72 million. Barclays announces settlement
November 26th, 2015
FCA fines Barclays £72 million for poor handling of financial crime risks Barclays announces settlement with the FCA The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Barclays Bank (Barclays) £72,069,400 for failing to minimise the risk that it may ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
Barclays: Settlement with Department of Financial Services regarding foreign exchange electronic trading
November 19th, 2015
Barclays Bank PLC has reached a settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) in respect of its investigation into Barclays’ electronic trading of foreign exchange (“FX”) and FX electronic trading systems in the period 2009 ...
Barclays could face another $100 million fine in FX probe
November 18th, 2015
Barclays Plc (BARC.L) will pay at least another $100 million (65.7 million pounds) in a settlement with the New York financial regulator to resolve allegations that it rigged foreign exchange markets, a person familiar with the matter said. The ...
Major Global Banks announced their results for 3Q 2015
November 4th, 2015
HSBC, Credit Suisse, Commerzbank, BNP Paribas and Barclays have issued statements to inform public and investors for their results regarding the 3rd Quarter of 2015. HSBC Holdings plc 3Q 2015 Earnings Release Highlights Reported PBT up 32% in 3Q15 ...
Barclays sets aside £290m for foreign exchange compensation
October 30th, 2015
Provision for customers takes Barclays’ legal bill to £2.3bn in nine months, as critics say latest move does little to restore company’s tarnished reputation Barclays is embroiled in yet another scandal after admitting it expects to pay £290m to compensate ...
Barclays, HSBC and RBS agree to £600m fine for foreign exchange rigging
October 23rd, 2015
Three of Britain’s biggest banks were slapped with a $924m (£600m) bill for rigging foreign-exchange markets yesterday. Barclays, HSBC and RBS agreed the bill during a US federal court hearing, according to reports from Sky News. Barclays agreed to ...
Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Set to Scale Back Global Ambitions
October 20th, 2015
Regulation, interest rates, economy curbing profitability U.S. firms are grabbing greater share of investment bank fees Europe’s last global banks are caving in to pressure from regulators and preparing to tell investors just how much their aspirations will shrink. ...
Big Banks, Serious Trouble
October 12th, 2015
It turns out that the world of ZIRP/NIRP isn’t the banking paradise that some thought it would be. See Why The Big Banks Want Higher Interest Rates. Whether the problem is with low interest rates themselves or the fact ...
Banks Finalize $1.86 Billion Credit-Swaps Settlement
October 2nd, 2015
Suit claimed banks conspired to prevent competition Wall Street’s biggest banks have agreed to pay $1.86 billion to settle accusations that they conspired to prevent competition in the credit-derivatives markets, according to plaintiff lawyers in the private lawsuit. Twelve ...
