Barclays Bank

966 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 21 Oct 2024

Ex-Tandem CTO onboard for Dubai-based digital bank

The former CTO of UK challenger Tandem has joined forces with experienced execs from the more traditional banking sector to build a digital-only bank in Dubai.

Barclays campaigns to take on fraudsters

The UK's Barclays Bank is rolling out a service to enable customers to switch off debit cards direct from their mobile app as part of a £10m nationwide drive to increase the public’s awareness of financial fraud risks.

Eight startups Rise up with Barclays

Barclays Bank is entering formal engagements with eight of the 11 startups to pass through its latest fifteen-week accelerator programme and spinning out an internal team as a separate company.

Barclays opens Europe's largest fintech site

Barclays has opened an innovation centre in London's hipster capital Shoreditch housing internal banking and technology teams alongside more than 40 fintech startups.

Pennies partners Ingenico to bring digital charity boxes to the checkout

Digital charity box Pennies has teamed up with POS terminal maker Ingenico to make it easier for Brits to give money to good causes at the checkout.

Barclays Bank goes in search of the next Paypal at African accelerator

Barclays Bank says it wants to find the next Paypal after selecting the second cohort of 10 companies to participate in its African accelerator programme.

Visa and top UK banks get behind launch of Amazon Business

Visa and four of the UK's leading banks are partnering with Amazon on the launch of a new commercial marketplace for businesses shopping on the popular e-commerce site.

Barclays Africa’s Rise hub hosts hackathon to help solve water crisis

Rise, Barclays Africa’s innovation hub in Cape Town, hosted a water hackathon on Friday and Saturday, 24-25 March, to help harness the power of technology, innovation and collaboration in finding solutions to the water crisis in South Africa’s Western Cape province.

Barclays implements document management tech from accelerator graduate ClauseMatch

ClauseMatch, an award-winning financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management, today announced the launch and global availability of its innovative online editor.

Barclays develops Childline app for NSPCC

Barclays Bank has helped UK children's charity the NSPCC to launch an app to provide counselling to young people in need of emotional support directly through their smartphone.

Barclaycard offers free Uber rides to customers

Barclaycard is tapping into the popularity of Uber to launch a loyalty programme for UK credit card holders.

Supermarket contactless spending rockets

Data released by Barclaycard today as part of its latest Contactless Spending Index shows supermarket shoppers are increasingly turning to ‘touch and go’ as their payment method of choice when making purchases up to the value of £30.