Barclays cuts back risky lending after £228m hit from UK mortgage firm MFS
by Julia Kollewe from World news | The Guardian on (#758HK)
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Barclays is pulling back from lending to risky borrowers, as its chief executive warned of increasing numbers of fraud cases and the bank took a 228m hit from the failure of a mortgage lender.
The mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) collapsed in February amid allegations of fraud, and the UK's financial regulator has since launched an investigation into the scandal.
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