Britain's Barclays bank was publicly embarrassed in January when a British lawmaker quizzing its boss, Bob Diamond, asked him how many subsidiaries it had in the Isle of Man, Jersey and the Caymans.

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On the short list of likely bidders for the 158-year-old investment bank are Britain's Barclays, France's BNP Paribas, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Charlotte, N.

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TSB, Britain's most profitable bank, NatWest itself and Barclays which, like NatWest, has long been an underperformer.

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Over the past week damning evidence has emerged, in documents detailing a settlement between Barclays and regulators in America and Britain, that employees at the bank and at several other unnamed banks tried to rig the number time and again over a period of at least five years.

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Here in Britain, a group of eight companies, household names all, including Barclays Bank and British Gas, are running a big campaign offering costumers various ways to cut carbon emissions.

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Britain's Inland Revenue last year won a landmark case obliging Barclays, a British high-street bank, to hand over the bank details of hundreds of thousands of offshore accounts held by British residents.

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