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Barclays buys Tesco Bank’s retail business in £600m deal

Barclays is looking to grow its UK consumer business

Barclays buys Tesco's retail banking business
Barclays buys Tesco's retail banking business Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Barclays has agreed to buy the retail banking operations of supermarket Tesco in a deal valued at £600m.

The acquisition comes after the bank’s CEO said last month that Barclays will look to shrink the size of its investment bank as a proportion of its business.

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