UK - Pension and sovereign wealth funds are amongst those shoring up Barclays' balance sheet as main buyers of the bank's £4.5bn (US$8.8bn) share issuance today.
Barclays confirmed existing and new 'leading institutional shareholders' had agreed to invest up to £1.3bn, but said it could not divulge names of the specific funds until later this afternoon. ...
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