Barclays’ Canary Wharf offices rocked by morning bomb scare May 1, 2014 STAFF at banks including Barclays and HSBC were briefly shut in their offices yesterday morning as a suspicious package was investigated in Canary Wharf. An area including the Waitrose supermarket was closed off by police at around 9am when police were called to Barclays’ headquarters, near Churchill Place. Officers sent in a robot to study [...]
Barclays cleans up with bad bank April 29, 2014 BARCLAYS will next week set up a bad bank to run down its weakest business lines as it grapples to turn its sprawling financial empire into a sustainably profitable business. Investment banking co-head Eric Bommensath will the run the bad bank, kicking off a series of major job changes on the way as part of [...]