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13 unusual facts about Barclays


ATP World Tour Finals appearances

The current sponsor is Barclays, and they are currently held on hard courts indoors in the O2 Arena in London.

BARCAP

Barclays Capital (BarCap), the former name of the investment banking division of Barclays.

Bart McDade

McDade was one of a handful of top Lehman executives offered a job at Barclays after the British bank bought Lehman's U.S. operations when Lehman declared bankruptcy in September 2008.

Gerald Leatham

Leatham worked in a family banking business, which was later absorbed by Barclays.

Kapiri Mposhi

Most shops and businesses in Kapiri Mposhi can be found along the main road and include a bakery, Pep and Barclays bank.

Kevin Sutherland

He had an exceptional 2008 season that included 6 top ten finishes, including playoff losses to Vijay Singh at the 2008 Barclays and Cameron Beckman at the 2008 Frys.com Open.

Mark Rubin

Rubin has continued his athletic success even while in the business world at Barclays on their fixed income futures sales desk.

Matt Somers

Leaving school at 16, Matt joined Barclays on a standard-entry school leaver programme in 1983.

Paddy Wallace

Over the summer he played in the United States and Canada in the Barclays Churchill Cup with the Ireland A team playing at out-half in all three of Ireland's games, the wins over USA and England Saxons and the defeat to the New Zealand Māori.

Partnership Africa Canada

Alan Martin went on to criticise major European banks, such as Barclays, for having investments in some of the Zimbabwe banks involved in the sale of diamonds; saying "By facilitating these transactions, Barclays, Stanbic (Standard Bank) and the IFC are participating in diamond-related violence".

Plan International Egypt

These activities have been carried out in Egypt in partnership with Barclays Bank and CARE (another NGO working in Egypt).

Tutor-Saliba Corporation

Investors put in $200 million in capital while raising $400 million in liabilities through a Barclays led group of banks.

Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Wheatley has a post office, a branch of Barclays bank, an Asda supermarket, a Co-Op pharmacy, several shops in the High Street, and numerous village societies, including the Wheatley Society and a Village Produce Association which holds an annual show.


2010 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2010 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

2011 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour, and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

Alpines

Their song "Empire" which was released as a video in May 2012 was used by Sky Atlantic for the trailer of the new series of Boardwalk Empire season 3 Autumn 2012 and by ESPN for US Barclays Center Classic in November 2012.

Bank of America Home Loans

By 2005, GHL operation processed more than £11.3 billion ($20.3 billion) in loans, all of which are subserviced for Barclays, PLC, the joint venture partner.

Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index

The Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, which used to be called the "Lehman Aggregate Bond Index," is a broad base index, maintained by Barclays Capital, which took over the index business of the now defunct Lehman Brothers, and is often used to represent investment grade bonds being traded in United States.

Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank (trading as Barclays, formerly Barclays Capital) is the investment banking division of the British multinational Barclays bank headquartered in London.

Bawdeswell

Gurney's Bank was based in Norwich and connected through marriage to Barclays Bank of London with which it merged along with Backhouse's Bank of Darlington and several other Provincial banks in 1896 to form what is now Barclays Bank.

Clare McLaren-Throckmorton

Clare McLaren-Throckmorton's first marriage was to Alan George Tritton, CBE, DL, of Lyons Hall, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex, formerly director of Barclays Bank, High Sheriff of Essex 1992, CBE June 1999 for services to Anglo-Indial relations & preservation of the cultural heritage.

Edgar Pearce

The bombings targeted branches of Barclays Bank after he had a dispute with the bank and later Sainsbury's supermarkets, in the hope of obtaining money from each company.

Gold fixing

Barclays — Replaced N M Rothschild & Sons when they abdicated

Goslings

Goslings Bank, a historical British banking firm, now Barclays Fleet Street branch

GroupSpaces

Since 2007, GroupSpaces has worked with over 70 graduate recruiters including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Freshfields, BCG, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Citi, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, Lloyd's of London and the NHS.

IShares

The effort was led by Lee Kranefuss, who worked closely with the inventor of the ETF, Nate Most, who was by that time Chairman of the WEBs Board and an adviser to Barclays on the iShares effort.

Maria Ramos

She would later become chief executive of that country's state-owned transportation company Transnet, and in 2009 was appointed Group CEO of the Barclays PLC subsidiary Absa, one of South Africa's largest financial services companies.

Marina Bay Financial Centre

Tower 2 is leased to multi-national institutions such as American Express, BHP Billiton, Bank Pictet, Barclays, Eastspring Investments, ICAP, The Macquarie Group, Murex, Nomura Securities, Tafo Oil and Servcorp.

Octavius Black

Black led major programmes with clients including RBS, BP, McKinsey, Barclays, Zurich, InterCity and Sizewell B.

One Churchill Place

The building was formally opened in June 2005 by the Chairman of Barclays, Matthew Barrett, and merged Barclays offices across London into one building.

Royal Golden Eagle

APRIL built large pulp mill in Sumatra before tree plantations with funding from commercial banks and financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, Barclays, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, HypoVereinsbank and Commerzbank.

The Barclays

Jim Nantz, who calls the final two rounds of the Barclays on television, is also CBS' lead NFL football announcer.

Since the move to late August, the Barclays has traditionally closed CBS Sports' PGA Tour television schedule, due to the network's commitment to airing SEC College and NFL football, as well as the U.S. Open tennis tournament, during the fall months.