Barclays Share Discussion Threads

[bernie37] 11/5/2017 16:01

Nearly ten years after the financial crisis and US banks look to be out of the woods - but UK lenders are still struggling with fines and payouts

According to the ratings agency Standard & Poor's, the UK's four biggest banks face paying out £19.5billion in fines, compensation and legal expenses this year and next.

[portside1] 11/5/2017 15:32

why did jes not say that at the agm

[jordaggy] 11/5/2017 15:26

My word, the poor man is totally stressed out.

[nasdaqpat] 11/5/2017 15:22

Does he mean in addition to the 10 years the Bank has had so far to 'turnaround'.
What a complete plonker these CEOs are and Staley seems like one of the worst.

[bernie37] 11/5/2017 15:03

Jes Staley Says Barclays May Need 18 Months to Turnaround

[portside1] 11/5/2017 15:00

is it fact natinwide to stop giving mortgages for lease hold

[clond] 11/5/2017 14:25

That ship sailed two weeks ago with Atom

[johnwise] 11/5/2017 12:12

Trying to prop up the absurd UK property Ponzi scheme ?.


Barclays launches new residential and buy-to-let deals



Now that's a mortgage price war! Digital bank Atom slashes five-year fixed rates to record low of 1.29% in unprecedented move

[manics] 11/5/2017 09:47

"I feel it is important that I acknowledge to you, our shareholders, that I made a mistake in becoming involved in an issue which I should have left to the business to deal with. I have apologised to the board and would today like to apologise to you as well for that error."

-he's talking about when he signed his employment contract, right?

[bernie37] 11/5/2017 09:20

• Seeing off a shareholder rebellion, Barclays (NYSE:BCS) CEO Jes Staley has been re-elected to the board after apologizing over his recent mistakes, while shares closed almost 2% higher on the news.
• Not for long? Shortly afterwards it emerged that the bank will pay more than $97M to settle charges it overbilled clients at its asset management business.

[bernie37] 11/5/2017 09:11

Jes Staley on Barclays' Growth Options

[manics] 11/5/2017 09:00

"the group is still trading at a 40% discount to book value. Eliminating this discount is our number one priority near-term"

The only way to achieve this meaningfully imo is to eliminate the branding by breaking the business up and selling its components.

[portside1] 10/5/2017 21:28

We will see that sooner than you thinkOff topic why was Obama allowed to try and blackmail the uk On leaving the Eu. That man is no more than a low life criminal Have been listening for two hours to the bbc parliament programme. Live on the USA crime and terrorism They need to look at obama and is lies lies lies

[fearnwood] 10/5/2017 17:35

From the AGM presentation "the group is still trading at a 40% discount to book value. Eliminating this discount is our number one priority near-term" - nice to see, tells us that they are working towards a £3.30 share price in the short term. Would be good to see that before the AGM next year....

[bernie37] 10/5/2017 17:01

hxxp://webcasts.barclays.com/barclays532/files/Q117_Presentation.pdf

[portside1] 10/5/2017 16:44

so all was well and still ahead of targets but would of liked more on the div
but it looks like div rise for 2018

[fearnwood] 10/5/2017 16:18

All Barclays directors re-elected, now should be back on track...

[bernie37] 10/5/2017 12:39

hxxps://www.home.barclays/content/dam/barclayspublic/docs/InvestorRelations/IRNewsPresentations/2017News/20170510_RNS_Announcement_AGM_Statements.pdf

[portside1] 10/5/2017 10:16

is their live web cam today

[portside1] 10/5/2017 09:33

come on jes give us some good news today only 7 months to go of your plan

[portside1] 10/5/2017 09:30

Obama was no more than a liar and a criminal. its all about to come out about the about him . not a very honest person and its is yobs being paid by him to try and under mine trump . that's for sure
he also wanted isis to be a great power that is why he fought to stop the bombing

[johnwise] 10/5/2017 08:27

Simon English: Barclays needs Jes Staley much more than he needs Barclays