Barclays

Barclays has confirmed the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has started an investigation into payments between it and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.

Barclays has made its GlobalAccess multi-manager fund range available to advisers through two major platforms, and hopes to launch on the remaining large providers by the end of the year.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will be hit with greater fines than Barclays over the LIBOR-fixing scandal, a member of the Treasury select committee has claimed.

Retail banks are the most likely driver of consolidation in the platform market, according to a leading back-office provider.

A former director of Barclays has accused the Commons Treasury committee of launching a "completely unacceptable" character assassination of the bank's former chief executive Bob Diamond.

Small firms caught up in the mis-selling of complex interest rate derivative products face up to a nine month wait to hear if they qualify for compensation.

Barclays is to roll out six FTSE autocall products on Transact and Nucleus, as well as most self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers, including AJ Bell and SIPPCentre.

Seven major banking groups, including HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland, have been summoned to appear before US regulators investigating the LIBOR fixing scandal.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Stephen Hester has emerged as the frontrunner to fill the vacant chief executive position at Barclays.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will today suggest scrapping LIBOR and replacing it with a borrowing rate based on actual trades, it has been reported.