Barclays rushes to plug leverage gap with £6bn rights issue
Barclays unveiled a larger than expected rights issue of £5.95bn on Tuesday morning, quickly arranged to allow the bank to comply with a new leverage ratio target introduced by the UK regulator — which Barclays is short of by almost £13bn.
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