Barclays Bank

968 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 18 Nov 2024

New Barclaycard aims to offset carbon emissions from air travel

Barclaycard is launching a new 'carbon-offset' corporate charge card that will enable its business customers to offset emissions created by business air travel.

London police hunting online account hackers

Police in London are hunting a gang of online thieves that hacked into bank accounts and stole hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Barclays Wealth to consolidate back office ops in Glasgow

Barclays Wealth is in negotiations to expand its outsourcing agreement with Bank of New York Mellon and consolidate its business administration in Glasgow under a major re-organisation that will lead to the closure of its operations centre in Peterborough.

Barclays to step up focus on liquidity management

Barclays has selected a liquidity management system from payments provider Fundtech as part of its efforts to improve the monitoring of its cash flows and in preparation for the introduction of the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) and Target2 Securities (T2S) initiatives.

Barclays introduces supplier finance service

UK banking group Barclays has launched an online supplier finance service designed for its corporate customers.

Barclays bids to boost online sales

UK banking group Barclays is using technology from US-based Omniture in a bid to increase conversion rates for inquiries and sales of key products on its Web site.

Barclaycard rolls out Oyster payments card

Barclaycard today launched its combined contactless Oyster travel and debit card, OnePulse, in London.

HSBC investigates 'out of band' authentication for Web users

HSBC is investigating 'out of band' authentication security for online banking - in which unique ID log-in codes are communicated by telephone - as a possible alternative to the two factor card reader programme backed by UK payments association Apacs.

Barclays blames technical glitch for £1.6bn emergency loan

UK bank Barclays says it was forced to borrow £1.6bn from the Bank of England after a technical problem with its link to the Crest settlement system left it unable to borrow in the inter-bank market to cover a short position in its accounts.

RBS revs up contactless payments programme

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has officially launched its contactless card payment scheme in the UK, with the Formula 1 AT&T Williams team making the first over-the-air transaction at a McDonald's drive-thru in London.

Barclays launches contactless payments card in US

British banking group Barclays is launching a Visa contactless payments card in the US in partnership with retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.

Barclaycard signs retailers for contactless payments

Barclaycard has signed 1000 retail outlets for the launch of its new contactless three-in-one card, OnePulse, in London this Autumn.