United Counties Bank and Barclays: The Treasury Committee having withdrawn its ban on the financial arrangement’s incidental to the proposed amalgamation of the United Counties Bank with Barclays, an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the former undertaking was held at Birmingham yesterday to ratify the arrangement. … … The effect of the agreement was explained by Mr. R. A. Pinsent, solicitor, who mentioned that the Treasury made it a condition that the existing “B” capital should not be subdivided at present, as originally proposed, and that the issue of further capital should be postponed. … …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948