Santander and Barclays face lawsuits over film financing schemes April 8, 2019 Santander and Barclays are facing lawsuits from investors in failed film financing schemes. Santander could be sued for the role of legacy bank Alliance & Leicester’s role in part-funding the Imagine film financing scheme while Barclays is beng targeted over a similar scheme known as Timeless Releasing. Read more: HSBC sued for £150m in relation [...]
Jury discharged in trial of senior Barclays executives accused of financial crisis fraud April 8, 2019 The jury in the trial of four former senior Barclays executive accused of fraud for their part in a financial crisis-era emergency fundraising was discharged today. The high-profile case marks the first time senior bankers have faced court in a case related to the 2008-09 financial crash. In October the High Court quashed an attempt by [...]
Barclays plugs $6m into London financial tech startup Simudyne April 8, 2019 Financial simulation technology firm Simudyne will today announce the close of a $6m (£4.6m) series A funding round, led by Barclays. Early Snap and Lyft investor Graphene Ventures also joined the round, alongside Gauss Ventures which has previously backed digital banks Revolut and Tandem. The round raises Simudyne’s total amount of investment to date to [...]
Gender pay gap data reveals the financial services with wider than average discrepancies April 5, 2019 Some of the large companies with the widest gender pay gaps come from the financial services sector. The deadline for providing gender pay gap data closed last night. For large companies – those employing more than 5,000 staff – the average pay gap was 10.34 per cent. The financial services entities below have gender pay [...]
Morgan Stanley selected to steer Uber through $120bn IPO April 5, 2019 Morgan Stanley has reportedly been chosen to ensure Uber has a smooth ride through its initial public offering (IPO) after a string of volatile tech floats have set nerves jangling. The ride-hailing app has named the US investment bank as stabilisation agent for its eagerly-awaited IPO, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Read [...]
Germany could get up to 5,000 new finance jobs in the next 18 months because of Brexit April 3, 2019 Up to 5,000 new jobs at overseas banks in Germany could be created in the next year to 18 month because of Brexit, the country’s foreign banking association said today. The lobby group for non-German banks in Germany told an event in Frankfurt that almost 50 financial institutions had decided to ramp up their activities [...]
Amazon tops Linkedin list of top 10 companies to work for April 3, 2019 A list of the top 10 companies that are seen as most attractive for workers released by Linkedin this morning revealed a varied mix of preferences for job hunters in the UK. Amazon, which recently raised wages after coming under criticism for employment practices and warehouse conditions, took the number one spot, with firms such as [...]
Fast rollout of 5G could add £16bn to the UK economy by 2025, says Barclays April 3, 2019 High-speed 5G mobile technology could add £15.7bn per year in business revenue to the UK economy by 2025, a new report has revealed. The figure would apply in an ‘optimistic scenario’, where the rollout of the new network is accelerated and met with fast uptake by businesses and consumers, according to research by Barclays Corporate [...]
UK Asset Resolution sells Northern Rock loans for £4.9bn April 2, 2019 The UK Government’s “bad bank”, which was set up in the wake of the financial crisis, has sold £4.9bn of former Northern Rock loans to Citi. UK Asset Resolution, which took on the closed mortgage books of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley after the crash, said that the fair treatment of customers was a [...]
Euribor rate-rigging trial delivers the fraud office a much-needed win April 1, 2019 The convictions of two former Barclays bankers in the Serious Fraud Office’s long and protracted probe into Euribor manipulation will inject a new sense of purpose into an agency weary from a string of defeats and climbdowns. Today Carlo Palombo and Colin Bermingham were sentenced to a combined nine years in prison for their role in [...]