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The bank said it had made "significant progress" in improving its capital and liquidity positions.

It also made progress in reducing expenses and improving its capital position.

On Jan . 27 the firm, based in Milan, closed a rights offering that raised 7.5 billion euros toward improving its capital reserves.

Robert E. Diamond, Jr., the chief executive of Barclays, said the appointment "brings even more management focus on accelerating" its priorities of improving its capital position and increasing returns.

"By reducing De Beers's level of external debt and improving its capital structure, this investment would better enable the company to take advantage of new opportunities and demonstrate the shareholders' confidence in De Beers's continued market leadership as the recession gives way to recovery," De Beers said.

Regardless of a change in the macroeconomic environment, the technical level was a major factor for improving its capital allocation efficiency.

Citigroup, which earlier raised $7.5 billion from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to improve its capital, said it had raised an additional $12.5 billion from a number of investors, including the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Citigroup's former chairman and chief executive, Sanford I. Weill.

MF Global did improve its capital position, but it was not enough to save the firm.

Nationwide has been under pressure to improve its capital basis after it fell short last year of a new leverage ratio, and after the problems at Co-operative it remains the last major mutual on the high street.

Meanwhile, Swiss bank UBS announced on Tuesday that it plans to seek $15.1 billion in new cash as it looks to improve its capital position.

Jon Peace, an analyst at Nomura in London, said in a research note that the bank's efforts to improve its capital position had left it with "a superior balance sheet".