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Barclays beats profit expectations on credit card boom

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Last updated: 2023/04/27 at 7:24 AM
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© Reuters. A woman walks past a branch of Barclays Bank, in London, Britain, February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

By Lawrence White and Iain Withers

LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays reported better than expected first-quarter profit on Thursday after a strong performance from its credit card business offset pressure on other business lines.

The British bank’s pretax profit of 2.6 billion pounds ($3.25 billion) beat analyst forecasts for a repeat of the previous year’s 2.2 billion pounds.

Analysts at JPMorgan (NYSE:) said Barclays (LON:) delivered a “solid” set of results that could lead to upgrades in analyst forecasts for the bank’s full-year profit.

Income at the lender’s consumer, cards and payments division rose 47% to 1.3 billion pounds thanks to rising credit card balances driven partly by its acquisition of a portfolio from retailer Gap last year.

While higher credit card spending boosted Barclays’ finances, there were signs this could have a sting in the tail. The bank’s bad loans provision for the quarter soared to 524 million pounds from 141 million a year earlier, which it blamed mainly on its U.S. cards business.

Investment banking, a source of strength in recent quarters, was more mixed, with income from its global markets trading business sliding 8% and fees from advising on corporate mergers and fundraisings down 7%.

Mergers and acquisitions activity shrank to its lowest in more than a decade in the first quarter as rising interest rates and high inflation reduced appetite for dealmaking.

Fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) was a bright spot, with income rising 9% to 1.8 billion pounds. Transatlantic rival Morgan Stanley (NYSE:) this month reported a 12% fall in FICC revenue.

The bank made no further charges for an earlier administrative trading error that has blighted recent results and led it to agree a $361 million penalty with U.S. regulators last year for “staggering” failures in overselling $17.7 billion of structured products.

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