Barclays

The decision by BHP Billiton to sever its broking ties with Barclays challenges its global status, writes David Rothnie.

Tich Mabikacheche has left Barclays EM DCM team after 2.5 years as an analyst on that desk.

Danish outsourcing firm ISS launched a $2.1bn-equivalent IPO on Tuesday, trying a listing again for the fourth time with reduced leverage ratios and better market conditions.

Barclays’ chief executive Antony Jenkins may have gone to bed happy on Monday night after the bank’s share price rose on his pre-announcement, a day early, of two headline numbers from its annual report. He was not smiling by Tuesday lunchtime.

With a potentially bruising third quarter earnings season approaching, Europe’s investment banks should hold their nerve and stick to their post-crisis strategies, writes David Rothnie.

Jerry del Missier, the former co-head of Barclays’ investment bank, this week laid the blame for his involvement in the manipulation of the firm’s Libor submissions during the credit crisis firmly at the door of Bob Diamond, former chief executive.

Saying sorry properly seems to get more difficult the more senior you are. Is it arrogance or just stupidity?

Imagine you wanted to know something about top flight English football. Perhaps the name of every team’s home ground? Number of away wins? Captains since the 1960s?