Two of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders have cut their mortgage rates following similar moves by rivals. Barclays and Santander have both cut rates by about half of a percentage point on various products notably on two-year fixed mortgages. A two-year fixed with 60% loan to value at Barclays is down from 4.62% to 4.17% while for new customers Santander is cutting rates by up to 0.56% for new customers.  The Spanish bank is offering a 60% LTV five-year fixed rate mortgage will be available at 3.94% while re ...

GSK PLC (LSE:GSK, NYSE:GSK) should deliver better than expected fourth-quarter results on January 31, according to Barclays, amid heightened expectations driven by the robust performance of its RSV vaccine, Arexvy. Analysts at the bank, who also wondered if 2024 could be "the year Zantac goes away?", said the last set of quarterly results were muddied by the performance of Arexvy. "Though Arexvy's result at 3Q created a lot of confusion, with the inventory stocking benefit and launch costs [were] somewhat u ...

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Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC) cut 5,000 jobs over the course of last year in a bid to reduce costs and as “technology and automation” improves. Marking the most substantial cuts at the bank since the 2008 financial crisis, reductions are said to have taken the form of both redundancies and vacancies, as per Sky News. Reductions were made across Barclays’ 84,000-strong global workforce, with about a quarter thought to have hit the bank’s UK operations. Barclays confirmed the cuts in a statement, explaining they we ...

Barclays reportedly laid off about 5,000 workers in 2023 as part of a cost-cutting campaign.A spokesperson for the British bank told Reuters Monday (Jan. 8) that most of those cuts happened in Barclays Execution Services, the company’s support unit.“Barclays removed approximately 5,000 headcount globally through 2023 as part of its ongoing efficiency programme designed to simplify and reshape the business, improve service, and deliver higher returns,” the spokesperson said.The bank also laid off about 3% of ...

Barclays slashed its workforce by around 5,000 jobs in 2023 as part of a major cost-cutting drive announced last year, the bank said Monday.The majority of the cuts fell in Barclays Execution Services, the bank’s support unit, the lender said, confirming for the first time Reuters reporting from last November that the lender was eyeing thousands of cuts in that division.“Barclays removed approximately 5,000 headcount globally through 2023 as part of its ongoing efficiency program designed to simplify and re ...

The Barclays Bank logo on 5th of October 2023 in Ashford, United Kingdom. Barclays Bank is a British ... [+] multinational banking and financial services organisation and major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)In Pictures via Getty ImagesBarclays’ stock (NYSE: BCS) has gained 1% YTD, as compared to the 2% drop in the S&P500 over the same period. Further, it is currently trading at $8 per share, which is 9% below its fair value of jus ...

In the tumultuous world of finance, it’s crucial to identify bank stocks to avoid. The March banking crisis, marked by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the struggles of smaller lenders, has significantly eroded investor confidence. This development is particularly concerning as the banking sector hasn’t reaped the expected benefits of rising interest rates, placing these stocks in a precarious position.Furthermore, Goldman Sachs reports a notable shift among hedge funds from holding to short-selling ban ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barclays today announces the appointment of Ryan Voegeli as Head of Investment Banking for Canada. Mr. Voegeli will be based in Toronto. Mr. Voegeli has twenty years of investment banking experience, and joins Barclays from CIBC Capital Markets where he was Head of Global Diversified Industries Investment Banking. In this role he led a highly successful team spanning Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Chicago and San Francisco. Prior to joining CIBC in 2011, Mr. Voegeli wa ...