Barclays cuts back risky lending after £228m hit from UK mortgage firm MFS
Barclays is pulling back from lending to risky borrowers, as its chief executive warned of increasing numbers of fraud cases and the bank took a £228m hit from the failure of a mortgage lender. The mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) collapsed in February amid allegations of fraud and the UK’s financial regulator has since launched an investigation into the scandal. Barclays provided banking services to MFS and said the £228m hit had pushed total credit impairment charges to £823m...
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