Financial Times – Barclays increased the amount of money it must set aside to cover mis-sold financial products to consumers and business by more than £1 billion ($1.57 billion), greatly increasing expected legal payouts for the British banking sector. The bank said on Tuesday that it was doubling the money set aside for redress on the mis-sale of interest-rate hedges to £850m. It is also to increase the pool of money to pay off those who were sold payment protection insurance by a further £600m. The additional provisions mean Barclays now expects a total bill of more than £3.4bn related to the mis-sale of consumer products. Read Article
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