Barclays Bank

News/crypto

Barclaycard blocks credit card crypto purchases

Brits will no longer be able to buy cryptocurrency with their Barclaycard credit cards from later this week.

26 June 2025

News/startups

Barclays and Citi lead $7 million investment in deal intelligence platform Claira

Barclays and Citi have co-led a $7 million seed funding round in deal intelligence platform Claira.

25 June 2025

Event/payments

On-Demand – Why verticalisation matters: Unlocking success through tailored SMB propositions

How can issuers better serve their SMB customers?

Speakers from: Banco Santander, Barclays Bank, Visa, PagoNxt

24 June 2025 207

News/startups

Barclays opens London innovation hub with Microsoft and Nvidia onboard

Barclays has opened a new innovation hub in London, working with a range of partners from across the tech industry – including Microsoft and Nvidia.

11 June 2025

News/ai

Barclays to roll out Microsoft Co-Pilot to 100,000 staff

Barclays Bank is to extend its delivery of Microsoft Co-Pilot AI agents to 100,000 staff worldwide.

10 June 2025

News/people

Barclays head of fintech strategy leaves

Barclays head of fintech strategy and open innovation, Andrew Elphick, is stepping down after 14 years at the British bank.

30 May 2025

News/security

Cyber attacks keep me awake at night - HSBC UK boss

The boss of a UK high street bank has told a panel of politicians that the possibility of a cyber attack "keeps me awake at night".

21 May 2025

Event/payments

On-Demand – Solving procurement challenges with embedded payments

Discover the challenges and opportunities in procurement.

Speakers from: Barclays Bank, Visa, Taulia, BNY

13 May 2025 302

News/security

1.2m UK customers affected by February bank outages

A major outage suffered by UK high street banks on the last Friday of February affected more than 1.2m customers, according to a recently released House of Commons report.

12 May 2025

News/payments

Barclays deploys Ant International's FX forecasting model for global treasury management

Barclays Bank is to use Ant International's proprietary Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI FX Model, to help businesses reduce FX-related costs and risks against global volatilities.

07 May 2025

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