Barclays kickstarts suspended share buy-back programme

Reuters

Published May 24, 2022 07:24

Updated May 24, 2022 07:51

LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays (LON:BARC) has fired the starting gun on a 1 billion pound share buy-back programme aimed at reducing its share capital after refiling accounts with U.S. authorities on Monday.

The British lender was forced to resubmit its 20-F accounts after it discovered in March it had sold more than $15 billion of complex securities than it had permission to sell.