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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

News/security

Online retailers warned of lost sales as SCA comes into effect

Online retailers are being warned to be prepared for the introduction of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), the biggest change to payments since Chip & Pin rolled out 16 years ago.

14 March 2022

News/payments

Barclaycard adds Apple Pay support to virtual expense card

Barclaycard Payments has added Apple Pay support to its Precisionpay Go virtual Visa cards, enabling employees to pay for face-to-face as well as online business expenses.

02 March 2022

Company announcement/payments

Barclaycard to launch two new credit cards with Avios

Barclaycard, one of the UK’s largest credit card providers, has partnered with Avios to launch two new credit cards that give customers the opportunity to collect Avios when making purchases, as well as providing a host of travel-related perks.

28 February 2022

Company announcement/regulation

Barclays fined £783,800 for oversight failings in collapsed payments firm Premier FX

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Barclays Bank Plc (Barclays) £783,800 for oversight failings in its relationship with collapsed payments firm Premier FX.

28 February 2022

Company announcement/sustainable

Barclays signs 10-year Power Purchase Agreement for UK operations with bp

In support of the bank’s efforts to transition towards powering its UK operations from fully renewable sources and help finance the clean energy transition, Barclays has today announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with bp.

17 February 2022

News/payments

Barclays calls for more stringent regulation of BNPL market

Barclays is calling for more robust regulation of all buy-now-pay-later products as it releases new research which suggests the lack of consistent affordability assessments has led shoppers to take on more debt than they can afford to repay.

14 February 2022

Company announcement/sustainable

Retailers terminate contracts worth over £7bn as part of supply chain clean-up

UK retailers have cancelled £7.1bn in contracts across the last 12 months with suppliers that don’t meet stringent ethical and sustainable standards, new research¹ reveals.

10 February 2022