Barclays plc - Annual Report 2008 - Financial statements - The Group
Barclays plc - Annual Report 2008 - Financial statements - The Group
Barclays plc - Annual Report 2008 - Financial statements - The Group
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<strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC data<br />
Notes to the accounts<br />
n Minority interests<br />
<strong>2008</strong> 2007<br />
£m £m<br />
At beginning of year 1,949 1,685<br />
Share of profit after tax 403 377<br />
Dividend and other payments (134) (131)<br />
Equity issued by subsidiaries 4 137<br />
Available for sale reserve: net (loss)/gain from changes in fair value (1) 1<br />
Cash flow hedges: net gain/(loss) from changes in fair value 76 (16)<br />
Currency translation differences 59 16<br />
Additions – 27<br />
Disposals (11) (111)<br />
Other 27 (36)<br />
At end of year 2,372 1,949<br />
o Dividends<br />
<strong>2008</strong> 2007<br />
£m £m<br />
On ordinary shares<br />
Final dividend 1,030 791<br />
Interim dividends 130 2,496<br />
Dividends 1,160 3,287<br />
<strong>The</strong>se dividends are paid to enable <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC to fund its dividends to its shareholders and in 2007, to fund the repurchase by <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC of ordinary<br />
share capital.<br />
Dividends paid on preference shares amounted to £390m (2007: £193m). Dividends paid on other equity instruments as detailed in Notemamounted<br />
to £112m (2007: £152m).<br />
p <strong>Financial</strong> risks<br />
<strong>The</strong> only significant financial instruments that are held by <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC and not <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC are investments in <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC ordinary shares, dealt<br />
with as trading portfolio equity assets, debt securities and available for sale financial investments as appropriate.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re consequently are no significant differences in exposures to market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and the fair value of financial instruments between<br />
<strong>Barclays</strong> PLC and <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC, and no differences in the manner in which these financial risks are managed. <strong>The</strong>refore the disclosures regarding<br />
financial risks appearing in Notes 46 to 49 are in all material respects the same for <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC and <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC.<br />
q Capital<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC <strong>Group</strong>’s policies and objectives for managing capital are the same as those for the <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC <strong>Group</strong>, disclosed in Note 52.<br />
<strong>The</strong> table below provides details of the <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC <strong>Group</strong> at 31st December <strong>2008</strong> and 2007.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> 2007<br />
Basel II Basel I<br />
£m £m<br />
Total qualifying Tier 1 capital 37,101 26,534<br />
Total qualifying Tier 2 capital 22,356 17,123<br />
Total deductions (964) (1,889)<br />
Total net capital resources 58,493 41,768<br />
r Segmental reporting<br />
Segmental reporting by <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC is the same as that presented in Note 53 to the <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC financial <strong>statements</strong>, except for:<br />
– the difference in profit before tax of £42m (2007: £31m) between <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC and <strong>Barclays</strong> Bank PLC is included in Head office functions<br />
and other operations.<br />
– the difference in total assets of £49m (2007: £222m) is represented by holdings of <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC shares held by the businesses.<br />
312 <strong>Barclays</strong> PLC <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2008</strong> | Find out more at www.barclays.com/annualreport08