Barclays Bank

978 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 06 Mar 2025

/retail

UK banks hit a month of outages in the last two years; Barclays to pay out millions for IT downtime

Nine of the top banks and building societies operating in the UK accumulated at least 803 hours - the equivalent of more than 33 days - of tech outages in the last two years, new data published by the Treasury Committee shows.

/retail

MPs to quiz bank bosses over IT outages

The Treasury Committee has written to CEOs at nine banks and building societies to request information on the scale and impact of IT failures which have affected their businesses over the last two years.

/payments

People queue up at Barclays ATMs to withdraw 'free' cash

The weekend saw scores of people queuing up at Barclays' ATMs to withdraw 'free cash' after the bank's mobile and online services were hit by a technical breakdown.

/retail

Barclays suffers major app outage on pay day

Barclays has been hit by an IT problem that has left some customers unable to access their accounts online or through the app.

/startups

Barclays joins Fintech Wales

Barclays has become the latest organisation to partner with FinTech Wales, the independent membership association dedicated to supporting the FinTech and Financial Services industry in Wales.

/startups

Barclays shuts down Rise fintech accelerator programme

UK bank Barclays is shuttering its decade-old fintech accelerator programme, Rise.

/ai

Barclays research estimates that AI could drive US data centre usage to triple by 2030

Barclays Research today released a new Impact Series report, entitled “AI revolution: Meeting massive AI infrastructure demands.”

/payments

Barclays and Synchrony Financial in the running to take over Apple's credit card business

Apple is reportedly in talks with Barclays to replace Goldman Sachs as its credit card issuer.

/wholesale

Validis scores investments from Citi and Barclays

Validis, a market leader in financial data collection and standardization, today announced strategic investments from Citi and Barclays.

/security

One-in-five consumers lost money to scammers in 2024

New research from Barclays Bank reveals that one in five consumers fell victim to a scam in the last year.

/payments

Barclays Bank in talks over giving away 80% stake in merchant acquiring business

Barclays Bank is understood to be in discussions with Brookfield Asset Management about giving up 80% of its merchant acquiring arm.

/retail

Barclays completes Tesco Bank acquisition

Barclays has completed the £600 million acquisition of Tesco Bank’s retail banking business.