Barclays hires Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan to bolster its Australian investment banking unit LeapRate

Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan join Barclays Australian investment banking unit

January 17, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Barclays hires Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan to bolster its Australian investment banking unit

In their new roles at Barclays, Beattie and Connellan will be based in Sydney and report to Richard Satchwell, Country CEO and Head of Investment Banking, Australia. Richard Satchwell, Country CEO and Head of Investment Banking, Australia, said: Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan are outstanding additions to our Investment Banking team. Their deep industry relationships…

January 13, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Sven Baumann appointed as Head of Investment Banking DACH at Barclays

Prior to that, Baumann spent three years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He served as a Managing Director there and was focused on advising private equity firms on European investments and specifically on investments in German-speaking Europe. Baumann also spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank. He joined the company as an Associate and reached…

October 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Barclays names Angela Liu as CEO of China business

Liu will also lead Barclays’ growth initiatives in China across all product lines in Global Markets, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking. Her work will see her partner with the bank’s regional heads of the CIB, and with Grace Kuo, Barclays’ Shanghai Branch Manager. Jaideep Khanna, Head of Barclays, Asia Pacific, said: China presents a big…

Antony Stephen joins Barclays new finance business as CEO

September 24, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Antony Stephen joins Barclays finance business as CEO

Ruchir Rodrigues, commented: I am delighted that Antony is joining Barclays to lead our point-of-sale finance business, and that we’re able to attract talent of his calibre. Antony’s global experience with an industry-leading firm like Amazon and his passion for customer centricity will be invaluable in driving this business forward. His vision and leadership will…

July 06, 2021 BY Alan Sayer

Barclays places block on transfers to Binance for UK customers

Barclays' decision is expected to cause other banks to decide on how they will handle Binance. Both Natwest and Santander have made comments related to crypto exchanges recently, with Natwest taking the decision to decrease the daily limit that customers could make to crypto exchanges. This news from Barclays, as well as the decision by…

June 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Ee-Ching Tay appointed head of Southeast Asia banking at Barclays

Sandeep Pahwa, who has been the face of South-East Asia banking at Barclays for over ten years, will be passing the baton on to Tay. Pahwa is still, however, set to stay at the firm, serving as vice-chairman and head of Asia-Pacific client coverage for Barclays. Vanessa Koo, head of banking for Asia-Pacific and Greater…

December 18, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: capital.com releases MetaTrader service in 2021, Plus500 extends sponsorship of Atlético de Madrid

Bitcoin broke records yesterday by soaring through its previous all-time high, up more than 15% in the past 24 hours. At the time of writing yesterday, bitcoin was trading around $22,838 – well above any previous high achieved by the cryptoasset. In its wake other peers such as ethereum are also soaring. ETH has hit a…

December 15, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA fines Barclays £26 million for poor treatment of customers in financial difficulty

The FCA stated that between April 2014 and December 2018 some retail and small business customers who had been offered consumer credit were treated poorly when they fell into debt. The regulator found that Barclays failed to treat customers fairly or to act with due skill, care and diligence. According to the FCA, Barclays failed…

October 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Ballinger & Co adds Barclays as its principal banking partner

Jenni Himberg-Wild, Head of Team - FinTech and PSPs Coverage at Barclays Corporate Banking said: We are very pleased to be working with Ballinger, as they provide their innovative Foreign Exchange offering to the market. We’ve worked closely with their senior management over recent months, and look forward to continuing to build a strong relationship…

July 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Barclays’ liquidity now available to clients in production via the FXSpotStream Service

The addition of Barclays to the FXSpotStream Service, expands the offering by increasing the liquidity available to clients. With the increase of the liquidity, the volume supported by the service also grows. In June the company registered an ADV of USD43.287 billion - a 19.9% increase MoM compared to May 2020 and their third highest…

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