Barclays hosted its fifth annual UK Savings Conference on 8th June 2016, and the key takeaway was that Robo-Advice would have a significant role to play in closing the advice gap, but is akin to the rise of internet banking in the early 2000s.

AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”), the specialist European financial services private equity firm, announces that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Barclays plc's French retail banking and wealth businesses.

Carlo Calabria joins Barclays from CMC Capital where he was a Founding Partner having established this business in 2012.

REITs are investment vehicles in real estate that are available to many investors and are commonly traded on major stock exchanges. They derive most of their revenue from ownership or financing of rental properties, such as apartment building, hotels and shopping malls...

Barclays read recent Chinese measures as evidence that officials are accepting that the country's growth trend has been hit by the build-up of imbalances that can no longer be sustained. Barclays's analysts think that a lower Chinese growth trend, more than the cyclical slowdown, opens interesting opportunities for FX markets in the months ahead.