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2014年巴克莱银行将裁员1.4万 Barclays is to cut 14,000 jobs this year - half of them in the UK - as part of a new strategy, the bank has said. 作为新战略之一，巴克莱银行今年将裁员14000人，半数位于英国。 ? The number is higher than the 10,000 to 12,000 jobs that the bank said earlier this year that it wanted to cut. ? The investment bank, which has been hit by a slowdown in the demand for government and company debt, will lose about 7,000 jobs by 2016. ? In total, there will 19,000 jobs lost at Barclays by 2016, with about 10,000 to go in the UK. ? Barclays will also set up a bad bank which will eventually sell or run down ￡115bn of non-core operations. ? These include ￡90bn of investment bank assets and all of its European retail banking operations, amounting to ￡16bn of assets. ? The carve-up will give greater prominence to Barclays retail operations in the UK, its Barclaycard credit card arm and its African business. ? This is a bold simplification of Barclays, said chief executive Antony Jenkins. ? We will be a focused international bank, operating only in areas where we have capability, scale and competitive advantage. ? At the investment bank, 2,000 jobs will go this year, with another 5,000 positions being lost by 2016. ? In the first quarter of this year, Barclays investment banking business was hit by a 28% slump in revenue. ? Revenue from trading in currencies, bonds and commodities dropped 41% to ￡1.23bn. 1