Barclays Bank

Event/payments

Solving procurement challenges with embedded payments

Discover the challenges and opportunities in procurement.

Speakers from: Barclays Bank, Visa, Taulia, BNY

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News/payments

Barclays strikes deal with Brookfield to offload payments business

Barclays has entered a strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management that will work towards offloading the UK bank's payments acceptance business "over time".

17 April 2025

News/payments

Contactless dominates UK spending

A record 94.6% of all eligible in-store card transactions in the UK were made using contactless last year.

08 April 2025

News/security

Santander scores victory in APP fraud retrieval case

Santander has scored a significant High Court victory in a push payment fraud case over its responsibility to return £415,000 that was sent to a scam account.

26 March 2025

News/payments

Barclays closes in on sale of merchant acquiring business

Barclays Bank is closing in on a deal to offload its merchant acquiring business to Canada's Brookfield Asset Management.

10 March 2025

News/retail

UK banks hit a month of outages in the last two years; Barclays to pay out millions for IT downtime

Nine of the top banks and building societies operating in the UK accumulated at least 803 hours - the equivalent of more than 33 days - of tech outages in the last two years, new data published by the Treasury Committee shows.

06 March 2025

News/retail

MPs to quiz bank bosses over IT outages

The Treasury Committee has written to CEOs at nine banks and building societies to request information on the scale and impact of IT failures which have affected their businesses over the last two years.

10 February 2025

News/payments

People queue up at Barclays ATMs to withdraw 'free' cash

The weekend saw scores of people queuing up at Barclays' ATMs to withdraw 'free cash' after the bank's mobile and online services were hit by a technical breakdown.

03 February 2025

News/retail

Barclays suffers major app outage on pay day

Barclays has been hit by an IT problem that has left some customers unable to access their accounts online or through the app.

31 January 2025

News/startups

Barclays shuts down Rise fintech accelerator programme

UK bank Barclays is shuttering its decade-old fintech accelerator programme, Rise.

21 January 2025