Barclays Bank

968 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 18 Nov 2024

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Barclays recruits Lucy Demery for fintech investment role

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Barclays recruits Lucy Demery for fintech investment role

Barclays Investment Bank has poached Lucy Demery from Standard Chartered to offer a 360 degree view of fintech investment and collaboration opportunities.

Amount hits unicorn status

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Amount hits unicorn status

Digital banking technology provider Amount has joined the unicorn club thanks to a $100 million Series D funding round.

Which? calls on banks to come clean about APP fraud refunds

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Which? calls on banks to come clean about APP fraud refunds

UK consumer group Which? is calling on banks and building societies to publish figures on the proportion of customers they refund for authorised push payment (APP) fraud.

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Retailers miss out on £39.4bn of sales in abandoned baskets during lockdown

Research from Barclaycard Payments reveals that UK retailers have lost out on more than £39.4bn in potential sales over the last 12 months, as lockdown sees the value of online abandoned baskets more than double since 2018*.

Barclays sees £900m growth opportunity in payments

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Barclays sees £900m growth opportunity in payments

Barclays has identified payments as a key growth opportunity worth £900 million over three years thank to areas such as merchant acquiring and the BNPL market.

Barclays US and Amount launch white label BNPL suite

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Barclays US and Amount launch white label BNPL suite

Barclays US is joining forces with fintech firm Amount to offer merchants a white label point-of-sale buy now, pay later financing service.

Barclays to shut down Pingit on 30 June

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Barclays to shut down Pingit on 30 June

Barclays Bank has confirmed the closure of mobile P2P payments app Pingit, almost ten years after its pioneering launch in 2012.

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Barclays rolls out suite of FX products to Barx e-trading platform

Barclays today announced the launch of a suite of new products for BARX FX that further enhances its electronic capabilities and strengthens its FX offerings for clients.

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Lockdown legacies: the 10 shifts in consumer behaviour for retailers to be aware of

Exactly a year after the first national lockdown, new research from Barclaycard Payments, which processes nearly £1 in every £3 spent in the UK, reveals the 10 biggest shifts in consumer behaviour which have emerged as a result of the pandemic, and are set to outlive it.

First Boulevard raises $5m for Black community-focused neobank

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First Boulevard raises $5m for Black community-focused neobank

First Boulevard, a neobank focused on the Black community, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round joined by Barclays.

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Solactive launches climate change index with Barclays

Solactive today announces the launch of the Solactive Climate Change Europe BTI Index. Returns of the new index are available to investors through products exclusively offered by Barclays.

Barclays takes action against patent trolls

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Barclays takes action against patent trolls

Barclays is the first major European headquartered bank to join LOT Network and Open Invention Network Community to oppose the abuse of intellectual property rights by patent trolls.

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