Barclays Bank

949 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 07 May 2024

/regulation

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, among banks fined $1.1 billion by SEC

16 of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions been charged to pay a combined $1.1 billion to US regulators for not monitoring unauthorised employee messaging, announced the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday.

/startups

Aviva pumps $10 million into female fintech fund

Aviva has invested $10 million in a VC fund that backs female entrepreneurs in the fintech industry across the UK, Europe, Canada and the US.

/startups

Barclays pivots Rise to focus on laid-off fintech talent

Reflecting the donwturn in the fintech sector, the latest iteration of Barclays Bank's Rise Startup Academy will focus on on supporting budding founders who find themselves out of jobs due to the current economic climate.

/payments

Barclaycard joins the Adflex acquiring network

Digital payments specialist, Adflex, today announced a new partnership with Barclaycard to help simplify the acceptance of card payments across its B2B client base.

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/security

Starling responds to UK Govt's report on suspected BBLS fraud

UK Government has confirmed that of the £47 billion provided in loans through the Bounce Back Loan (BBL) scheme, £1.1 billion of these loans are suspected to be fraudulent.

/retail

UK's bank branch sharing project to be extended

A trial project involving bank branches shared by multiple institutions is set to be rolled out across the UK.

/regulation

Banks to pay $1bn over traders' use of WhatsApp

A handful of Wall Street banks are preparing to pay up to $200m each to settle a case with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over the use of WhatsApp messages.

/retail

Barclays closes more branches

Barclays has marked another 18 branches for closure, bringing the total number of sites shuttered this year to 178.

/retail

Barclaycard joins BT’s partnership network to support small businesses

Barclaycard Payments has announced its partnership with BT to support microbusinesses in the UK.

/wholesale

Barclays rolls out Microsoft Teams worldwide

Barclays bank has signed a multi-year agreement to deploy Microsoft teams as a global collaboration platform, connecting 120,000 staff and services partners in key locations worldwide.

/payments

Barclaycard Payments: Non-traditional sign-ups will fuel new wave of subscriptions

New data on the ‘subscription economy’ shows that non-traditional sign-up products and services are likely to fuel the next wave of subscriptions. Barclaycard Payments – which processes £1 in every £3 spent on credit and debit cards in the UK – found that over two thirds (68 per cent) of businesses that currently offer subscriptions will expand their portfolios before the end of 2022.

/crypto

Barclays takes stake in crypto firm Copper

UK bank Barclays has taken a punt on Copper in the crypto custody firm’s most recent funding round and has invested “millions of dollars” despite decreased enthusiasm for volatile digital assets, according to reports by Sky News.

/crime

Lloyds, Santander, Barclays, TSB demand Google, Facebook reimburse online fraud victims

As reported in The Telegraph, UK banks have urged Big Tech and telecommunications firms to take responsibility for their contribution to the rise of online fraud and voluntarily reimburse victims.

/devops

Barclays to host CBDC hackathon

Speaking exclusively with Finextra, Barclays has announced it will host the ‘Barclays CBDC Hackathon 2022’ later this year, to promote the emergence of new technologies in large-scale banks.

/identity

SCA remains top requirement for merchants

David Jeffrey, Director, Head of Product - Fraud & Security, Barclaycard Payments, speaks at MPE 2022 about why Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) holds its place at the top of merchant's agendas and why it is such an important requirement still. We evaluate the lessons learned from the implementation of SCA so far, the impact this has had on customer experience and what merchants can do to rectify this.

/retail

Barclays to close more branches

Barclays bank has revealed 15 new branch closures, on top of the 13 it confirmed in March, 27 in May, and 29 in June - all of which are set to shut this year.

/regulation

Klarna exec blasts 'mind-boggling' Barclays BNPL research

Tensions between the traditional banking sector and the increasingly popular buy now, pay later industry spilled over this week as Klarna hit back at Barclays' research on BNPL regulation, calling it "mind-boggling" and irresponsible".

/markets

Big banks test DLT-based intraday FX swaps and repo trading platform

Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.

/retail

Money 20/20 EU: Take caution with hyper-expansion

Hyper-personalisation is receiving significant attention from financial services at present. Yet expansion into new niches which businesses haven’t fully understood poses new risks, and, as explored by Money 20/20 Europe’s panel session, ‘Hyper-personalisation in a data-driven world', this can have severe impacts across an entire business model.