{"id":143,"date":"2013-07-11T07:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=143"},"modified":"2013-07-11T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:07:48","slug":"barclays-bank-plc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Barclays Bank PLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Barclays 356 page annual report, a good read if you have time, some important nuggets can be found if you dig deep.<br \/>\n[<a title=\"Barclays Investor Relations\" href=\"http:\/\/group.barclays.com\/about-barclays\/investor-relations\/annual-reports\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/group.barclays.com\/about-barclays\/investor-relations\/annual-reports<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>page 8: <strong>Paid \u00a33.2 Billion<\/strong> (<strong>\u00a33,200,000 million<\/strong>) in tax.<\/p>\n<p>page 66: UK\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Legal &amp; General Group plc<\/strong> own 480,805,132 shares = <strong>3.99%<\/strong> of Barclays<\/p>\n<p>page 66: <strong>His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyanb of Abu Dhabi<\/strong> owns 858,546,492 shares = <strong>7.02%<\/strong> of Barclays<br \/>\n[<a title=\"His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyanb of Abu Dhabi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mansour_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mansour_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Page 98: 373 people earned between \u00a31,000,001 to \u00a32,500,000 (nice work when you find it)<\/p>\n<p>Page 206: Balance Sheet:<\/p>\n<p>Total assets <strong>\u00a31,490,321 million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31,490 Billion<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31.490 Trillion<\/strong><br \/>\nTrading portfolio assets <strong>\u00a3145,030 million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a3145 Billion<\/strong> (effectively BarCap Trading Activities)<br \/>\nCustomer Deposits <strong>\u00a3385,707 million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a3385 Billion<\/strong><br \/>\nLoans and advances to customers <strong>\u00a3425,729 million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a3425 Billion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK 2012 GDP was <strong>\u00a31,541,465 Million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31,541 Billion<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31.541 Trillion<\/strong><br \/>\nAssets of Barclays = <strong>\u00a31,490,321 Million<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31,490 Billion<\/strong> = <strong>\u00a31.490 Trillion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus Barclays\u2019s assets = <strong>96%<\/strong> of the UK 2012 GDP. The bank is HUGE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barclays 356 page annual report, a good read if you have time, some important nuggets can be found if you dig deep. [http:\/\/group.barclays.com\/about-barclays\/investor-relations\/annual-reports] page 8: Paid \u00a33.2 Billion (\u00a33,200,000 million) in tax. page 66: UK\u2019s\u00a0Legal &amp; General Group plc own 480,805,132 shares = 3.99% of Barclays page 66: His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}