Barclays Bank - News, Articles & Research

Barclays to host CBDC hackathon

Speaking exclusively with Finextra, Barclays has announced it will host the ‘Barclays CBDC Hackathon 2022’ later this year, to promote the emergence of new technologies in large-scale banks.

22 July 2022

Finextra TV/identity

SCA remains top requirement for merchants

David Jeffrey, Director, Head of Product - Fraud & Security, Barclaycard Payments, speaks at MPE 2022 about why Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) holds its place at the top of merchant's agendas and why it is such an important requirement still. We evaluate the lessons learned from the implementation of SCA so far, the impact this has had on customer experience and what merchants can do to rectify this.

15 July 2022

News/retail

Barclays to close more branches

Barclays bank has revealed 15 new branch closures, on top of the 13 it confirmed in March, 27 in May, and 29 in June - all of which are set to shut this year.

14 July 2022

News/regulation

Klarna exec blasts 'mind-boggling' Barclays BNPL research

Tensions between the traditional banking sector and the increasingly popular buy now, pay later industry spilled over this week as Klarna hit back at Barclays' research on BNPL regulation, calling it "mind-boggling" and irresponsible".

24 June 2022

News/markets

Big banks test DLT-based intraday FX swaps and repo trading platform

Teams from 14 banks, including Barclays, NatWest and Citi, have trialled a DLT-based intraday FX swap and repo trading platform from Finteum.

14 June 2022

News/retail

Money 20/20 EU: Take caution with hyper-expansion

Hyper-personalisation is receiving significant attention from financial services at present. Yet expansion into new niches which businesses haven’t fully understood poses new risks, and, as explored by Money 20/20 Europe’s panel session, ‘Hyper-personalisation in a data-driven world', this can have severe impacts across an entire business model.

10 June 2022

News/wholesale

Barclaycard rolls out cash advance product provided by Liberis

UK alternative finance provider Liberis has formed a deal with Barclaycard to offer revenue-based financing to the acquirer's small business customers.

07 June 2022

News/retail

Barclays accelerates retreat from the high street

Barclays Bank is adding to a wave of branch closures across the UK, announcing plans to shut an additional 27 sites this year

30 May 2022

News/crypto

Barclays and Goldman Sachs invest in digital asset platform Elwood

Barclays and Goldman Sachs have joined in a $70 million funding round in Elwood Technologies, the intsitutional-grade digital asset platform founded by British hedge fund billionaire Alan Howard.

16 May 2022

News/security

UK retailers lost £130 million in sales in first month of SCA rules

New data from Barclaycard Payments reveals UK retailers have so far lost out on £130m worth of sales as a result of not being fully compliant with new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rules which came in to effect last month.

14 April 2022

News/regulation

Barclays addresses potential CBDC fragmentation in new paper

Barclays’ paper sets out a methodology for the mitigation of potential fragmentation risk presented by central bank digital currency (CBDC), through an architecture that places CBDC and commercial bank money on a similar footing.

01 April 2022

News/regulation

CMA writes to Barclays and Lloyds over open banking API breaches

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has written to Barclays and Lloyds about a series of failures to make accurate and comprehensive data on its products and services available through open APIs.

21 March 2022