Barclays Bank

968 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 18 Nov 2024

Barclays slashes IT contractor rates

UK bank Barclays is cutting salaries for IT contractors working across its operations by around 10%.

Barclays "playing games" with back office staff - Unite

Barclays has been accused of "playing games" with staff after it told workers at its processing plant in Poole, Dorset, that plans to move to a new site have been axed, raising fears over job losses.

Barclays to axe 1800 UK IT jobs in offshoring drive

Barclays will cut around 1800 technology jobs in the UK over the next couple of years as it looks to offshore the work to "centres of excellence" around the world.

Barclays extends use of card readers for online bankers

Barclays is extending the use of Gemalto handheld chip and PIN devices, letting online customers use the readers to authenticate large value transactions and international payments, after reporting zero fraud among the first million users.

Barclays offers Web customers free e-security software

UK high street bank Barclays is teaming with anti-virus vendor Kaspersky to offer free online security software to its two million Internet banking customers.

Card data stolen in Web site hack

Criminals have hacked the Web site of UK retailer Cotton Traders and stolen the credit card details and addresses of thousands of customers.

UK's Faster Payments service goes live

The UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live.

Barclays signs for PGP encryption platform

The UK's Barclays Bank has licensed encryption technology from California-based PGP Corporation which it will use to safeguard sensitive information across its global retail and commercial banking operations.

Barclaycard cuts 1000 Goldfish jobs

Barclaycard is set to axe almost 1000 jobs at its recently acquired credit card business Goldfish with the closure of a Scottish call centre and the unit's London headquarters.

Barclays Stockbrokers launches spot FX trading for private investors

Barclays Stockbrokers has teamed with California-based Integral Development to launch a spot FX trading service for private investors on its Barx platform.

Third of UK Web users bank online

Around a third of the UK's online population - 10.9 million people - accessed their bank account via the Internet in January, according to Web metrics firm comScore.

BarCap buys assets of power market analysis outfit PowerLytix

Barclays Capital has acquired the assets of PowerLytix, a market data analysis vendor focused on the US electricity and natural gas markets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.