Barclays hoped 2008 cash call would drive international growth, court told
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LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays believed deals with strategic investors during the 2008 financial crisis would help to provide a springboard for its international ambitions, the bank's former chairman told a London criminal trial on Tuesday.Marcus Agius, called as a prosecution witness in the fraud trial of four former senior colleagues, said the bank had hoped to secure partnerships that would reinforce the bank's global ambitions by granting Barclays "favoured nation status" for future business..