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231<br />

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

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

Appendix L – Glossary<br />

Term<br />

ABI<br />

Absa<br />

Africa RBB<br />

Authorised<br />

Investment Funds<br />

Barclays<br />

Barclays Capital<br />

Basel Committee<br />

Basel I, Basel II<br />

and Basel III<br />

BBA<br />

BGI<br />

Definition<br />

Association of British Insurers<br />

Barclays’ South African business, majority owned by Barclays<br />

Barclays’ Africa Retail and Business Banking, which includes the<br />

operations previously reported as Barclays Africa and Absa<br />

Collective investment schemes authorised and regulated by the FSA 317<br />

Barclays PLC, including its wholly owned subsidiary, Barclays Bank PLC,<br />

and its subsidiaries<br />

Former name of Barclays’ investment bank<br />

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision<br />

Comprehensive sets of reform measures, developed by the Basel<br />

Committee on Banking Supervision, to strengthen the regulation,<br />

supervision and risk management of the banking sector 318<br />

British Bankers’ Association (UK)<br />

Barclays Global Investors, Barclays’ former institutional asset<br />

management business<br />

Big Bang Deregulation of the UK financial markets on 27 October 1986<br />

Board<br />

committees<br />

Businesses,<br />

business units or<br />

clusters<br />

BZW<br />

Collectively, Barclays’ Board Audit Committee; Board Conduct,<br />

Reputation and Operational Risk Committee; Board Corporate<br />

Governance and Nominations Committee; Board Remuneration<br />

Committee; Board Financial Risk Committee; and Board Enterprise<br />

Wide Risk Committee 319<br />

Currently Barclays’ UK Retail and Business Banking (UK RBB),<br />

European Retail and Business Banking (Europe RBB), Africa Retail and<br />

Business Banking (Africa RBB), Barclaycard, Corporate Banking,<br />

Investment Bank and Wealth and Investment Management. These varied<br />

over time, as shown in Exhibit 2<br />

Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Barclays’ former investment banking business,<br />

substantially divested in 1998 except for the fixed income business which<br />

together became Barclays Capital<br />

317 www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/ctmanual/CTM48115.htm.<br />

318 www.bis.org/publ/bcbsca.htm.<br />

319 http://group.barclays.com/about-barclays/about-us/the-board-committees

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