Barclays Plc

Barclays PLC to invest Rs 2,300 crore in India to support business growth

The capital infusion will enable the bank to expand its reach to a wider client base, including corporate and financial sponsor clients and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in India

Budget must give tax cuts for individuals to boost consumption: Barclays

The government in FY26 Budget should announce an "effective" personal income tax cut to support consumption and demand, Barclays said on Thursday. In its FY25-26 Union Budget preview, Barclays said the key ask from the Budget, to be presented on February 1, is to support growth while adhering to fiscal consolidation path. Barclays, India Chief Economist, Aastha Gudwani said in a quest to support consumption, the finance minister should provide an effective personal income tax rate cut by further tweaking the tax slabs. This is unlikely to have a sizable fiscal cost. "That said, improved tax buoyancy will likely make up for revenue foregone under this announcement. We think a boost to consumption is needed, especially with private investment also now awaiting the increase in demand growth," Gudwani said. Barclays expects Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to announce changes to the new tax regime, making it lucrative for more and more taxpayers. In the last Budget, the government

Barclays sees heightened competition in India from Japan's biggest banks

Japanese banks including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. are targeting India and the US for expansion

'India a strategic priority for global banks': Foreign bank heads at BFSI

Heads of India's leading foreign banks discuss the key to success on Indian turf in conversation with consulting editor Tamal Bandyopadhyay at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit

Barclays to cut hundreds of jobs in investment banking to trim costs

The cuts are expected to take place in the coming months and are part of the firm's annual cutting of low performers, the people said.

Asia largely spared from global job cuts, says Barclays CEO Venkatakrishnan

"It is a reduction in workforce generally speaking," CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan said in a Bloomberg TV interview Thursday in Singapore"

Barclays hires Credit Suisse dealmakers in India amid firmwide job cuts

The UK bank is seeking to replenish its ranks in the market after Ashish Jhaveri, head of mergers and acquisitions for the firm in India, left for Jefferies Financial Group Inc

Barclays PLC to cut about 450 jobs in UK retail bank, says trade union

The bank is consulting over which roles will be cut, with the majority expected to be in head office roles, including at vice-president level

Barclays explores sale of stake in $2.5 billion UK payments unit: Report

The bank is considering bringing in a partner with the strategic "know-how" to expand the business, as well as raising capital, but has yet to decide how big a stake it might sell, said the people

Barclays Plc names new CEO, COO in reshuffle of key India business

Pramod Kumar will be the new Chief Executive Officer and Suneeta Shetty from HSBC Holdings Plc will be Chief Operating Officer

Adani's go-to bankers at Barclays turn cautious after Hindenburg report

Executives at the highest levels are scrutinising ties with Adani, turning more cautious about adding new business pending a regulatory probe that's supposed to end next month

India's shrinking current account gap provides a reprieve for Rupee

Barclays Plc expects the gap in current account - the broadest measure of trade in goods and services - to be 1.8% of gross domestic product in the year starting April 1

Barclays silent as JPMorgan distances itself from Epstein-linked Jes Staley

With Staley contesting the findings of the UK regulatory probe, the British lender is maintaining a steady silence even as questions mount about its decision making over his departure

Adani plans to prepay $500 million loan due in March to banking group

Barclays Plc, Standard Chartered Plc and Deutsche Bank AG are among banks that lent Adani $4.5 billion to finance the purchase of Holcim Ltd. cement assets last year

Slower annual economic growth will be good for India, for now: Economists

India's annual economic growth is forecast to slow to about 6% for a few years, according to economists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Barclays Plc.. And they say that's not such a bad thing

Jhunjhunwala's firm Rare in talks with Barclays to prepay Rs 500 crore loan

The loan was used to fund the acquisition of Zydus Cadila's animal healthcare business in 2021

Morgan Stanley-led banks face $500 million loss on Twitter debt to Musk

When banks led by Morgan Stanley agreed in April to help finance Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter Inc., they were eager to aid an important client, the richest person in the world

Economists see waning urgency for India's RBI to go for large hikes

Citigroup Inc. economists expect a 35 basis-point increase in borrowing costs at the Reserve Bank of India's next Monetary Policy Committee meeting in August, a move also predicted by Barclays Plc

Barclays resumes dividend after a year-long hiatus as annual profit halves

Barclays shares, however, fell as much as 5 per cent, after the payout plans and a vague outlook set out with no profit targets left investors underwhelmed

Financial firms worldwide ramp up contingency plans as coronavirus hits

Morgan Stanley also confirmed that an employee at its Purchase, New York, campus, roughly 45-minutes north of Manhattan, tested positive for the virus