Topic summary
Barclays Capital
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Barclays.
1980 to 2000
Two years later, in 1998, the BZW business was broken up and the Equity and Corporate Finance divisions were sold to : Barclays retained the debt-focused Fixed Income business and Structured Capital Markets which formed the foundation of the rebranded Barclays Capital (BarCap). Barclays Capital had offices in over 29 countries and employed over 20,000 people, with over 7,000 people working in its IT division.