Barclays

Shares in Barclays fell in early trading as investors were once again forced to deal with another potential scandal at the bank, following confirmation the SFO is investigating deals it made during the credit crisis.

Today Barclays has been hit with another scandal which has been bubbling along in the background for some time, but with a new chief executive also arriving, do the bank's shares look attractive?

Barclays has appointed Antony Jenkins, its former head of retail and business banking, as its new boss.

Global asset allocators are urging investors to look past the VIX index's fall to a five-year low last week, and shield assets against a further bout of volatility in the coming months.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will be hit with greater fines than Barclays over the LIBOR-fixing scandal, a member of the Treasury select committee has claimed.

Former Barclays chief Bob Diamond has hit back at MPs' claims he was "highly selective" in his evidence to the Treasury Select Committee during the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal.

Seven leading global banks, including Barclays, RBS and HSBC, have been issued with subpoenas by the state of New York over the alleged rigging of LIBOR.

Standard Chartered has agreed to pay a $340m (£217m) fine to US regulators after it was accused of trying to hide up to $250bn of transactions with Iran.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Stephen Hester has emerged as the frontrunner to fill the vacant chief executive position at Barclays.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will today suggest scrapping LIBOR and replacing it with a borrowing rate based on actual trades, it has been reported.