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Barclays, opens new tab reported first-quarter profit in line \u200cwith expectations on Tuesday, as a 228-million-pound ($308 million) provision linked to collapsed lender MFS was offset by a steady performance at its investment bank thanks to robust trading.<\/p>\n
The British bank posted profit before tax of 2.8 billion pounds \u200bfor January-March, up from 2.7 billion.<\/p>\n
Income at the investment bank rose 4% from a year earlier \u2060to 4 billion pounds, versus analysts’ forecast for 3.9 billion.<\/p>\n
Investors had been braced for a charge \u200bafter the February collapse of London-based MFS, a little-known lender focused on complex property-related loans, which raised questions over \u200brisk checks at lenders including Barclays.<\/p>\n
The failure has also fuelled concerns about the health of wider lending markets, including the fast-growing but opaque private credit sector.<\/p>\n
Barclays, like other European \u200cbanks, \u2060had seen its shares scale multi-year highs earlier in 2026 as strong interest income, low bad-loan levels and a supportive economic backdrop buoyed profitability.<\/p>\n
The bank was also expected to benefit in the first quarter from higher trading activity at its investment bank, after major U.S. lenders reported a surge in trading income \u200bthis month amid Middle \u200bEast-linked market volatility.<\/p>\n
Barclays said \u2060income at its global markets business rose 6%.<\/p>\n
That was driven by an 8% year-on-year rise in dollar-denominated revenue at its fixed income, currencies and commodities \u200bunit, lagging an average 11% increase at Wall Street rivals, according to \u200bCiti analysts.<\/p>\n
Equities \u2060trading revenue jumped 23%, compared with an average 26% rise at the top U.S. banks.<\/p>\n
Fees from investment banking advisory work rose 17% from a year earlier, below the 27% average increase reported by the six \u2060largest U.S. \u200bbanks.<\/p>\n
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