Barclays Bank

1000 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 14 Oct 2025

Barclays claims largest ever financial services hackathon

The Bank Awakens saw 547 teams and 1,045 participants compete over 36 hours on Saturday and Sunday in Mumbai, India, and Manchester, UK, where Barclays has two of its Rise innovation hubs.

CFTC fines Barclays over trade confirmation fails

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays) for failing to create, maintain, and promptly produce required confirmations for a significant number of Exchange for Related Position (EFRP) trades in violation of CFTC Regulations.

Five hundred teams lined up for Barclays hackathon in Manchester and Mumbai

Barclays is to stage a simultaneous two-way hackathon between its fintech hubs in Manchester and Mumbai to provide startups with a chance to showcase their innovations to top decision makers at the bank.

Barclays signs contracts with six accelerator graduates

Barclays Bank has signed contracts with six fintech startups participating in its accelerator programme in New York.

Barclaycard brings contactless payments to personalised phone cases

Barclaycard is embedding its bPay contactless payments technology within personalised protective smartphone cases.

Barclays and CommBank team on cross-border mobile payments

Barclays is teaming up with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to enable customers to send instant mobile payments around the world with just a phone number.

Barclays' Waqas Samad appointed to head LSE fixed income index unit

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) today announces the appointment of Waqas Samad as CEO of Fixed Income & Multi-Asset Benchmarks for the Group’s Information Services division.

Barclays Wealth extends relationship with Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra and Barclays Wealth, a division of Barclays Bank plc., have entered into a strategic relationship for the provision of 'Avaloq Banking System' and 'Charles River' global application delivery.

Barclays executes live Letter of Credit transaction using distributed ledger technology

Barclays Bank and accelerator graduate Wave have executed a live Letter of Credit transaction between Ornua - the Irish Dairy Board - and Sychelles Trading Company on a distributed ledger based system.

Bloomberg completes acquisition of Barclays benchmarks and indices

Bloomberg L.P. announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions Ltd. (“BRAIS”) from Barclays PLC.

Team GB gets in shape for wearable payments

Visa is to equip all 366 British athletes, as well as 150 support crew, with a Team GB-branded Payment Band for making tap-and go purchases during the Olympics.

Former Barclays boss joins non-bank currency exchange operator

Anthony Jenkins, the former Barclays Bank boss who last year forecast a 50% cut in bank branches and staffing due to digital upheavals in the sector, has joined non-bank foreign exchange firm Currencies Direct as non-executive chairman.