Sunday, February 7, 2016

Julius Baer taking cross-check Barclays Asia wealth arm



Private bank Julius Baer (BAER.VX) is considering whether or not to bid for Barclays' (BARC.L) Asian non-public wealth business as a part of nation group's acquisition campaign, Chief government Boris Collardi told Reuters on Monday.

Barclays has picked Lazard (LAZ.N) to assist advise on the deal amid efforts to cut back in Asia, 3 sources with information of the matter aforesaid last month.

"We haven't determined nonetheless whether or not this (business) are some things fascinating for North American country or not, however i feel we're attending to see additional of that taking place," Collardi aforesaid in a very interview, elaborating on earlier comments concerning potential takeovers.

"We unremarkably cross-check everything so as for North American country to come back to a conclusion whether or not it's fascinating or not. that is however we will be expressing ourselves therefore clearly a couple of range of alternative targets," he added.

Baer, with three hundred billion Swiss francs ($295 billion) of assets underneath management, is probing for non-public banking assets that either stand alone or ar a part of a bigger bank.

"It wants an explicit size, therefore something i might say up from thirty billion forrader, 50 billion, 70 billion," he said, adding potential targets had to own shed unavowed wealth and supply synergies once placed on Baer's platform.

Barclays managed $36 billion privately banking assets in Asia as of 2014, per a survey by trade publication non-public Banker International, ranking it fourteenth in Asia.

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