Barclays has obstacles that are hard to overcome whatever ideas Sherborne Investors or anyone else has up their sleeves. Barclays has obstacles that are hard to overcome whatever ideas Sherborne Investors or anyone else has up their sleeves. Photo: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg NewsDoes a leading U.K. retail and commercial bank belong with a mid-ranking U.S.-focused investment bank? A new activist investor in the form of Sherborne Investors, run by U.S.-based Edward Bramson, will sharpen minds. But Barclays is also too small: investment banking and securities trading revenues are gravitating to the very biggest players.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 26, 2018 10:18 UTC