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Barclays taps Sovereign Wealth Funds

The Sunday Telegraph is reporting yet another major Western bank is going cap in hand to sovereign wealth funds in order to stave off the inevitable crisis. This time its Barclays, Britain’s third largest bank. At a time when RBS is issuing a massive £12 billion of fresh capital by tapping its beleaguered shareholder base, Barclays must have decided it needed to go another route if it is to have success raising capital