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Barclays PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2012
Jul 10, 2012
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Capital/Financing Update
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These Securities do not constitute collective investment schemes in the meaning of the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes ("CISA"). Accordingly, Securityholders do not benefit from protection under CISA or supervision by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ("FINMA").
Final Terms
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
(Incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales)
BARCLAYS CAPITAL (CAYMAN) LIMITED
(Incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands)
GLOBAL STRUCTURED SECURITIES PROGRAMME
for the issue of Securities
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
USD 10,000,000 FX Linked Notes due July 2014 (the "Notes")
Series NX000102879
under the Global Structured Securities Programme
Issue Price: 100 per cent. of par
This document constitutes the final terms of the Securities (the "Final Terms") described herein for the purposes of Article 5.4 of the Prospectus Directive and is prepared in connection with the Global Structured Securities Programme established by Barclays Bank PLC (the "Bank") and Barclays Capital (Cayman) Limited ("BCCL") and is supplemental to and should be read in conjunction with the Base Prospectus dated 14 June 2012, as supplemented and amended from time to time, which constitutes a base prospectus (the "Base Prospectus") for the purpose of the Prospectus Directive. Full information on the Issuer and the offer of the Securities is only available on the basis of the combination of these Final Terms and the Base Prospectus. The Base Prospectus is available for viewing during normal business hours at the registered office of the Issuer and the specified office of the Issue and Paying Agent for the time being in London, and copies may be obtained from such office. Words and expressions defined in the Base Prospectus and not defined in this document shall bear the same meanings when used herein.
The Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in these Final Terms. To the best of its knowledge and belief (having taken all reasonable care to ensure that such is the case), the information contained in these Final Terms is in accordance with the facts and does not contain anything likely to affect the import of such information.
Investors should refer to the sections headed "Risk Factors" in the Base Prospectus for a discussion of certain matters that should be considered when making a decision to invest in the Securities.
Barclays
Final Terms dated 10 July 2012
The distribution of this document and the offer of the Securities in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession these Final Terms come are required by the Bank to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. Details of selling restrictions for various jurisdictions are set out in "Purchase and Sale" in the Base Prospectus. In particular, the Securities have not been, and will not be, registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and are subject to US tax law requirements. Trading in the Securities has not been approved by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the US Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended. Subject to certain exceptions, the Securities may not at any time be offered, sold or delivered in the United States or to US persons, nor may any US persons at any time trade or maintain a position in such Securities.
Notice to Swiss investors:
The Securities may not be publicly distributed in Switzerland. These Final Terms shall not be dispatched, copied to or otherwise made available to, and the Securities may not be offered for sale to any person in Switzerland, except to Qualified Investors as defined in article 10 of CISA, i.e. to a) prudentially regulated financial intermediaries such as banks, securities dealers and fund management companies, b) regulated insurance institutions, c) public entities and retirement benefits institutions with professional treasury department, d) companies with professional treasury department, e) High-Net-Worth Individuals (as defined below) and f) investors who have concluded a written discretionary management agreement with a financial intermediary as defined under lit. a) or with an independent asset manager that complies with the requirements pursuant to Art. 6 para 2 of the Collective Investment Schemes Ordinance. A High-Net-Worth Individual is a private individual who confirms in writing at the time of the investment to own a minimum of Swiss Francs 2 million of financial investments, whether directly or indirectly.
This document is neither a prospectus according to Art 652a or Art 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations nor a simplified prospectus according to Art 5 of CISA.
The Securities do not constitute an investment in a collective investment scheme and are not subject to CISA nor to the supervision of FINMA.
Part A Terms and Conditions of the Securities
The Securities shall have the following terms and conditions, which shall complete, modify and/or amend the Base Conditions and/or any applicable Relevant Annex(es) set out in the Base Prospectus dated 14 lune 2012.
| Issuer: | Barclays Bank PLC |
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| Guarantor: | N/A |
| Manager: | Barclays Bank PLC |
| Determination Agent: | Barclays Bank PLC |
| Issue and Paying Agent: | The Bank of New York Mellon |
| Stabilising Manager: | N/A |
| Registrar: | N/A |
| Italian Securities Agent: | N/A |
| CREST Agent: | N/A |
| Paying Agents: | N/A |
| Transfer Agent: | N/A |
| Exchange Agent: | N/A |
| Additional Agents: | N/A |
THE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE US SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"). SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS, THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, US PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("REGULATION S")). THESE FINAL TERMS HAVE BEEN PREPARED BY THE ISSUER FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFER AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO NON-US PERSONS IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S AND FOR LISTING OF THE SECURITIES ON THE RELEVANT STOCK EXCHANGE, IF ANY, AS STATED HEREIN. FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THESE AND CERTAIN FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON OFFERS AND SALES OF THE SECURITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF THESE FINAL TERMS AND THE BASE PROSPECTUS, SEE "PURCHASE AND SALE" IN THE BASE PROSPECTUS.
| $\mathbf{1}$ | (i) | Series: | NX000102879 | |||
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| (ii) | Tranche: | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Currency: | United States Dollar ("USD") | ||||
| 3 | Notes: | Applicable | ||||
| (i) | Aggregate Nominal Amount as at the Issue Date: |
USD 10,000,000 | ||||
| (ii) | Specified Denomination: | USD 150,000 and integral multiples of USD 1,000 in excess thereof up to and including USD 299,000. Notes will not be issued in definitive form with a Specified Denomination above USD 299,000. |
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| (iii) | Minimum Tradable Amount: | N/A | ||||
| (iv) | Calculation Amount as at the Issue Date: |
USD 1,000 | ||||
| For the purposes hereof, all references in the Conditions to "Calculation Amount per Security" shall be construed as references to "Calculation Amount" as defined in these Final Terms. |
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| (v) Provisions relating to redenomination: | N/A | |||||
| 4 | Certificates: | N/A | ||||
| 5 | Form: | |||||
| (i) | Global/Definitive/Uncertificated and dematerialised: |
Global Bearer Securities: Permanent Global Security |
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| (ii) | NGN Form: | Applicable | ||||
| (iii) | Held under the NSS: | N/A | ||||
| (iv) | CGN Form: | N/A | ||||
| (v) | CDI s : | N/A | ||||
| 6 | Trade Date: | 26 June 2012 | ||||
| 7 | Issue Date: | 10 July 2012 | ||||
| 8 | Redemption Date: | 10 June 2014 | ||||
| 9 | Issue Price: | 100 per cent. of the Aggregate Nominal Amount | ||||
| 10 | Relevant Stock Exchange: | London Stock Exchange | ||||
| 11 | The following Relevant Annex(es) shall apply to the Securities: |
FX Linked Annex | ||||
| 12 | Interest: | N/A |
| 13 | Interest Amount: | N/A |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Interest Rate: | N/A |
| 15 | Screen Rate Determination: | N/A |
| 16 | ISDA Determination: | N/A |
| 17 | Margin: | N/A |
| 18 | Minimum/Maximum Interest Rate: | N/A |
| 19 | Interest Commencement Date: | N/A |
| 20 | Interest Determination Date: | N/A |
| 21 | Interest Calculation Periods: | N/A |
| 22 | Interest Payment Dates: | N/A |
| 23 | Day Count Fraction: | N/A |
| 24 | Fall back provisions, rounding provisions, denominator and any other terms relating to the method of calculating interest, if different from those set out in the Base Conditions: |
N/A |
| 25 | Settlement Method: | For the purposes of Condition 5.1 of the Base Conditions: |
| Cash Settlement | ||
| 26 | Settlement Currency: | USD |
| 27 | Settlement Number: | defined in Condition 24 of the Base As Conditions |
| 28 | Terms relating to Cash Settled Securities: | |
| (i) Final Cash Settlement Amount: |
The Final Settlement Cash Amount per Calculation Amount will be calculated as follows: |
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| If CNY Performance is greater than 0 per (a) cent., |
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| Calculation Amount + (Calculation Amount x Participation x CNY Performance) |
Where:
Amount
"CNY Performance" will be calculated as follows:
$$
\frac{USD-CNY_{\text{strike}} - \text{USD}-CNY_{\text{final}}}{USD-CNY_{\text{strike}}}
$$
"USD-CNYStrike" means the Specified Rate on the
| Strike Date. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "USD-CNY final " means the Specified Rate on the Final Valuation Date. "Final Valuation Date" means 27 June 2014. "Strike Date" means 27 June 2012. |
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| "Participation" means 248 per cent. | |||||||||||
| (ii) | Early Cash Settlement Amount: | As defined in Condition 24 of the Base | |||||||||
| Conditions | |||||||||||
| (iii) | Early Cash Redemption Date: | Conditions | As defined in Condition 24 of the | Base | |||||||
| 29 | Securities: | Terms relating to Physically Delivered | N/A | ||||||||
| 30 | Nominal Call Event: | N/A | |||||||||
| 31 | Call Option: | N/A | |||||||||
| 32 | Put Option: | N/A | |||||||||
| 33 | Specified Early Redemption Event: | N/A | |||||||||
| 34 | Maximum and Minimum Redemption Requirements: |
N/A | |||||||||
| 35 | Annex: | Additional Disruption Events in addition to those specified in Condition 24 of the Base Conditions and any applicable Relevant |
N/A | ||||||||
| 36 | Share Linked Securities: | N/A | |||||||||
| 37 | only): | Index Linked Securities (Equity indices | N/A | ||||||||
| 38 | Inflation Linked Securities: | N/A | |||||||||
| 39 | FX Linked Securities: | Applicable | |||||||||
| (i) | Single FX Rate, Basket of FX Rates, FX index, or FX-linked product (each a "Reference Asset"): |
Single FX Rate: The valueof units of CNY per one unit of USD (the "FX Rate") |
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| (ii) | FX Rate Source(s): | Reuters Page SAEC | |||||||||
| (iii) | Specified Time: | 09:15 Beijing time | |||||||||
| (iv) | Specified Rate: | The FX Rate determined by reference to the FX Rate Source at the Specified Time |
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| (v) | Spot Rate: | N/A | |||||||||
| (vi) | Principal Financial Centre: | N/A | |||||||||
| (vii) | Elective FX Disruption Event: | N/A |
- $(ix)$ Valuation Date:
- $(x)$ Valuation Time:
- $(xi)$ Averaging:
- $(xii)$ Rate Calculation Date:
Applicable - As per the FX Linked Annex
Strike Date and the Final Valuation Date
$N/A$
$N/A$
Valuation Date
For the avoidance of doubt, if a Rate Calculation Date is not a Beijing Business Day, such Valuation Date will be adjusted in accordance with the Business Day Convention set out in paragraph 39(xiii) below.
Where:
$N/A$
$N/A$
$N/A$
$N/A$
Modified Following
"Beijing Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday or Sunday on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments and are open for general business (including dealing in foreign exchange and foreign Currency deposits) in Beijing.
- Business Day Convention relating $(xiii)$ to Valuation Date
- 40 Credit Linked Securities:
- Commodity Linked Securities: 41
- 42 (a) Barclays Commodity Index Linked Securities (Section 2 of the Barclays Index Annex):
- (b) Barclays Equity Index Linked Securities $N/A$ (Section 3 of the Barclays Index Annex):
- (c) Barclays FX Index Linked Securities $N/A$ (Section 4 of the Barclays Index Annex):
- (d) Barclays Interest Rate Index Linked $N/A$ Securities (Section 5 of the Barclays Index Annex):
- (e) Barclays Emerging Market Index Linked $N/A$ Securities (Section 6 of the Barclays Index Annex):
- 43 Bond Linked Securities: $N/A$
- $44$ Fund Linked Securities:
- 45 Settlement in respect of VP Notes, APK $N/A$ Registered Securities, Dutch Securities, Swedish Registered Securities, VPS
Registered Securities or Spanish Securities:
- 46 Additional provisions relating to Taxes and Settlement Expenses:
- Business Day: 47
- 48 Additional Business Centre(s):
- 49 Non-US Selling Restrictions:
$N/A$
As defined in Condition 24 of the Base Conditions
$N/A$
In addition to those described in the Base Prospectus, no action has been made or will be taken by the Issuer that would permit a public offering of the Securities or possession or distribution of any offering material in relation to the Securities in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Each purchaser or distributor of the Securities represents and agrees that it will not purchase, offer, sell, re-sell or deliver the Securities or, have in its possession or distribute, the Base Prospectus, any other offering material or these Final Terms, in any jurisdiction except in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations of such jurisdiction and in a manner that will not impose any obligation on the Issuer or the Manager (as the case may be) and the Determination Agent.
Applicable TEFRA exemption: 50 $N/A$ 51 Business Day Convention: Modified Following 52 Relevant Clearing Systems: Euroclear Clearstream If syndicated, names of Managers: $N/A$ 53 54 Details relating to Partly Paid Securities: $N/A$ 55 Relevant securities codes: ISIN: XS0783951337 Common Code: 078395133 $N/A$ 56 Modifications to the Master Subscription Agreement and/or Agency Agreement: 57 Additional Conditions and/or modification N/A to the Conditions of the Securities:
Part B Other Information
| $\mathbf{1}$ | Listing and Admission to Trading | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i) | Listing: | London | ||||
| (ii) | Admission to trading: | Application is expected to be made by the Issuer (or on its behalf) for the Securities to be admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Regulated Market on or around the Issue Date. |
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| (iii) | Estimate of total expenses related to admission to trading: |
N/A | ||||
| 2 | Ratings | |||||
| Ratings: | The Securities have not been individually rated. | |||||
| 3 | Notification | |||||
| N/A | ||||||
| 4 | Interests of Natural and Legal Persons involved in the Issue | |||||
| N/A | ||||||
| 5 | Reasons for the Offer, Estimated Net Proceeds and Total Expenses | |||||
| (i) | Reasons for the offer: | General funding | ||||
| (ii) | Estimated net proceeds: | N/A | ||||
| (iii) | Estimated total expenses: | N/A | ||||
| 6 | Fixed Rate Securities Only - Yield | |||||
| Indication of yield: | N/A | |||||
| 7 | Floating Rate Securities Only - Historic Interest Rates | |||||
| N/A | ||||||
| 8 | Performance of Reference Asset(s) or Other Variable, Explanation of Effect on Value of Investment and Associated Risks and Other Information Concerning the Reference Asset(s) and/or Other |
$N/A$
Underlying
Performance of Rate of Exchange and Explanation of Effect on Value of Investment $\boldsymbol{9}$
Past and future performance and volatility of the Specified Rate can be obtained from Reuters Page SAEC.
10 Operational Information
| Any clearing system(s) other than Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (together with their addresses) and the relevant identification number(s): |
N/A |
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| Delivery: | Delivery free of payment |
| Names and addresses of additional Paying Agents(s) (if any): |
N/A |
| Intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility: |
No |
11 Offer Information
The Issue Price includes a commission element to be shared with a third party. Further details of the commission element are available upon request.