Barclays Capital: To Split or Not to Split?

07/13/2010

Barclays Capital: To Split or Not to Split?

The New York Times, July 13, 2010

Should Barclays be thinking about spinning off its investment bank?

Following a report last week from an analyst at Mediobanca Securities, which said that the bank should evaluate separating its Barclays Capital in order to boost its share price, other analysts and industry observers have taken a closer look at the proposal.

The Mediobanca analyst, Christopher Wheeler, suggested that Barclays could lift its shares by as much as 39 percent through a spin off of its investment bank and wealth management unit, Bloomberg News reported at the time.

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