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<strong>Salz</strong> <strong>Review</strong><br />

An Independent <strong>Review</strong> of Barclays’ Business Practices<br />

206<br />

Barclays’ Spain Timeline<br />

Corporate Development / M&A<br />

Legal action<br />

Other<br />

1974<br />

1982 2002<br />

1,600<br />

2003<br />

3,600<br />

First nondomestic<br />

financial<br />

institution to<br />

enter the Spanish<br />

banking market<br />

Acquired a<br />

63.2%<br />

stake in<br />

Banco de<br />

Valladolid<br />

Became 10 th largest bank in<br />

Spain, with total assets of €10.5<br />

billion and 165 retail branches;<br />

ranked first in debt financing<br />

through Barclays Capital and<br />

also offered Barclaycard<br />

products in Spain<br />

Became 6 th biggest<br />

commercial bank in Spain<br />

with 526 branches through<br />

acquisition of Banco<br />

Zaragozano, Spain's largest<br />

private sector banking<br />

group<br />

2005<br />

2008<br />

2009<br />

2010<br />

3,600<br />

4,800<br />

4,600<br />

4,200<br />

John Varley (CEO)<br />

quoted Spain and Africa<br />

as Barclays' best<br />

examples of earnings<br />

diversification in core<br />

banking activities outside<br />

the UK<br />

Recorded losses in<br />

property-related<br />

commercial<br />

banking exposures<br />

and credit cards in<br />

Spain<br />

Started<br />

reporting<br />

Spanish<br />

credit risk<br />

separately<br />

Recorded a £898 million<br />

impairment charge against<br />

Corporate loan book in Spain<br />

as a result of “deteriorating<br />

conditions in the Spanish<br />

property and construction<br />

sectors”<br />

Dec. 2011<br />

Dec. 2012<br />

3,600<br />

3,500<br />

Recorded a £480 million impairment<br />

charge against Corporate loan book in<br />

Spain as well as a £123 million<br />

impairment in Spanish goodwill<br />

Fined €600 thousand by Spain's<br />

stock market regulator for<br />

misrepresenting the risk profiles<br />

on some bonds sold in 2008<br />

#<br />

Number of Barclays FTEs in Spain<br />

Employee numbers from Barclays HR data. All year-end FTE<br />

numbers, except 2012 (end of November) Includes part-time staff,<br />

excludes interim and agency staff.

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