Barclays Wealth Management

Barclays Names Hammoud as Head of Wealth Management in Abu Dhabi
Barclays Plc named Haidar Hammoud head of wealth and investment management in Abu Dhabi as Britain’s second-biggest lender seeks to tap high net-worth individuals in the emirate, holder of about 6 percent of the world’s oil.

StanChart to buy Morgan Stanley India wealth management arm
By Sumeet Chatterjee REUTERS - Standard Chartered(STAN.L) has agreed to buy the Indian wealth management unit of Morgan Stanley(MS.N), helping the British bank expand its private banking business in Asia's ...

Barclays Uses Nuance Voice Biometrics to Identify Customers by the Sound of their Voice
Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that Barclays Wealth & Investment Management has deployed Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to securely and automatically confirm the identity of Barclays customers – using the sound of their voice.

National Bank considering new acquisitions in Canadian wealth management
National Bank (TSX:NA) says it's interested in new acquisitions but will be very selective about which sectors it looks to.

Wealth management key for banks amid slow growth in retail banking
TORONTO - As Canada's biggest banks prepare to report their second-quarter results, analysts say those that rely more heavily on wealth management and global markets will fare better amid slowing growth in Canadian retail banking.

DealBook: Britain Fines JPMorgan’s Wealth Unit
British regulators fined JPMorgan Chase $4.7 million on Thursday for failings in its wealth management division.        

Britain Fines JPMorgan’s Wealth Unit
British regulators fined JPMorgan Chase $4.7 million on Thursday for failings in its wealth management division.

Wealth management key for banks amid slow growth in retail
As Canada's biggest banks prepare to report their second-quarter results, analysts say those that rely more heavily on wealth management and global markets will fare better amid slowing growth in Canadian retail banking.

Barclays names key executive
Barclays has announced the appointment of Haidar Hammoud as head of wealth and Investment Management for Abu Dhabi.In this role, Haidar will be responsible for driving the Abu Dhabi business and will work closely with office heads in Singapore, Geneva, London and Dubai. Reporting to Rory Gilbert, managing director and Head of the Wealth and Investment Management division in MENA, Haidar will ...

Barclays adopts voice biometrics for customer identification
Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer’s ability to remember a number of different details.