LONDON (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 1, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that its ratings and outlook on Barclays Bank PLC (A/Negative/A-1) are unaffected by today's announcement that it has agreed to sell its Spanish bank, Barclays Bank SAU, to Caixabank S.A. The sale excludes Barclays' Investment Bank and Barclaycard operations in Spain. Barclays states that the consideration is about £630 million in cash upon completion and that, subject to any financial adjustment based on the statutory net asset value at Dec. 31, 2014, it expects the pro forma increase in its fully loaded common equity Tier 1 ratio to be around 12 basis points. We understand from Barclays that it expects to book a loss of about £0.4
