Barclays: the Quaker Squirearchy of UK Banking

David Rogers

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Big Four British Banks, 1999, pp 67-91 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Our next case, Barclays, is in many respects the polar opposite from Lloyds. While Lloyds is a prototype of the focused, specialist bank, Barclays had become a conglomerate, universal bank after the 1986 Big Bang. Often referred to as the bank of the empire, because of its large overseas business since World War I, Barclays had emerged in recent decades as one of the biggest, most diversified, and by far the most international of the British banks. Until the 1950s, Midland had been the UK’s largest bank, but Barclays displaced it after that, alternating at times with NatWest, its arch-competitor.

Keywords: Senior Manager; Commercial Banker; Investment Banking; Asset Management; Traditional Banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27760-5_5

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