Bloomberg Law
March 28, 2022, 6:46 PM

Barclays to Take $591 Million Hit on ‘Bizarre’ Bond Blunder (3)

Tom Metcalf
Tom Metcalf
Bloomberg News
Stefania Spezzati
Stefania Spezzati
Bloomberg News

Barclays Plc expects to take a 450 million-pound ($591 million) hit and will delay a share buyback after mistakenly issuing about $15 billion more structured notes and exchange traded notes than it had registered for sale.

The firm issued about $36 billion of investment products after registering with U.S. regulators in August 2019 to sell up to $20.8 billion, according to a statement Monday. The error will require the firm to repurchase affected securities -- a so-called rescission offer -- at their original price.

The error was called “basic”, “bizarre” and “embarrassing” by analysts, and Barclays said it was investigating ...

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