Barclays Bank

968 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 18 Nov 2024

Barclays retail shake-up to involve consolidation and offshoring - FT

The UK's Barclays Bank is preparing to overhaul its retail banking operations under plans which would entail shuttering processing centres and shifting more jobs offshore, according to an unsourced report in the Financial Times.

Barclays lures Citi's Frits Seegers to head retail and commercial banking

The UK's Barclays Bank has appointed Citigroup's Frits Seegers as chief executive of its global retail and commercial banking division.

Barclays fights online fraud with text alerts; offers free anti-virus software

In a bid to cut online fraud levels, high street bank Barclays is providing free virus protection software to customers and is also launching a text messaging service that alerts account holders to new Web transactions.

Cable & Wireless scales back real-time nostro commitment

Cable & Wireless is scaling back its involvement in the delivery of real-time nostro services to the banking community and handing over primary responsibility for sales and management of the hub-based system to software partner Gresham Computing.

Barclaycard to by-pass fraud checks for holidaymakers

In a bid to prevent legitimate cardholders being rejected when using their plastic abroad Barclaycard says it will no longer refer overseas card transactions for fraud checks provided customers have informed the company of their travel plans.

Barclays introduces online account opening

The UK's Barclays Bank has added a paperless online application facility to its Internet banking service for customers wishing to sign up to its current account.

Barclays deploys Teradata CRM technology

The UK's Barclays Bank has implemented customer relationship management (CRM) technology from NCR subsidiary Teradata which it will use to deliver targeted multi-channel marketing campaigns.

Barclays live with 'hassle free' RSA authentication system

The UK's Barclays Bank has deployed an online transaction monitoring system from RSA Security which is designed to authenticate Internet banking customers "behind the scenes".