Barclays Bank

964 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 16 Sep 2024

Barclays and HDFC sell Indian BPO unit

UK banking group Barclays is selling Intelenet, the Indian BPO joint venture it operates with Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), in a management buy out backed by US-based Blackstone. Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Top banks sign for Boat trade reporting platform

Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Dresdner Kleinwort, JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland have signed up to use the Boat European trade reporting platform to meet the pre and post trade reporting requirements of MiFID.

Barclays introduces mobile banking services

UK high street bank Barclays has launched a mobile banking service for its 1.9 million Internet banking customers.

HSBC defends two factor authentication opt out

HSBC has defended its decision not to follow other UK banks in rolling out handheld chip and PIN devices to its Internet banking customers, saying its existing monitoring procedures and customer education initiatives are already effective in detecting and preventing fraud.

Barclays axes 1100 UK jobs in efficiency drive

Banking group Barclays is cutting 1100 jobs at its UK back office processing centre in Poole over the next three years in an effort to improve efficiency.

UK banking industry set for contactless card roll out

UK banks will begin rolling out plastic credit and debit cards featuring contactless payment technology from either Visa or MasterCard to cardholders in September.

Barclaycard set for September launch of combined Oyster e-money card

Barclaycard is gearing up for a september launch of a contactless payment card featuring Transport for London's Oyster pre-paid fare system in September, following successful technical trials of the combined card.

Barclays-ABN Amro merger: one in ten jobs to go

In announcing the terms of their proposed EUR67bn merger, Barclays and ABN Amro say they hope to achieve EUR3.5bn of cost savings and additional revenue by 2010, largely from axing or migrating 23,600 jobs. This amounts to just over 10% of the combined workforce.

SecureTrading names Barclaycard's Gerald Kitchen CEO

UK online payment services provider SecureTrading has recruited former Barclaycard MD Gerald Kitchen as its new chief executive officer.

Banks censured for dumping customer data in bins

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found 11 financial institutions in breach of the Data Protection Act after they dumped customers' personal details in outdoor bins.

IT teams still waiting for green light on MiFID projects

UK regulators say they will take a pragmatic approach to any minor non-compliance from member firms when the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) formally comes into effect in November.

Barclaycard to shut Manchester call centre

Barclaycard is closing its customer call centre in Manchester, which employs 630 staff, and is shifting some of the work to offshore centres in India.