Barclays Bank

993 results about this entity

Period: 23 Mar 2006 - 16 Jul 2025

Tradition launches spot FX trading platform

Tradition has launched ParFX, a spot forex trading platform with the backing of 11 major banks, including Barclays and UBS.

Londoners warm to contactless bus payments

Londoners have paid for more than 700,000 bus fares using their contactless bank cards since the option was introduced three months ago.

Barclays takes the crown at Digital Wallet Foundry

A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London. Paul Wilshaw, creative lead at Barclays describes the hack-a-thon experience here.

Barclays takes the crown at Digital Wallet Foundry

A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London.

Barclays adopts start-up culture for Pingit

Barclays' head of mobile development, Shaun Terry, explains how, given just 90 days to build Pingit, his team adopted an alien, start-up culture.

Exploring the importance of mobile

Speaking at the Digital Wallet Foundry, John Conlon, head of proposition, digital services, Barclaycard discusses the importance of responding to the 'digital way' customers are living their lives now.

As banking goes digital, Barclays boss foresees massive job cuts

Barclays could axe as many as 40,000 of its 140,000 employees over the next few years as banking services become increasingly automated, chief executive Antony Jenkins has predicted.

Barclays names Shaygan Kheradpir chief operations and technology officer

British banking giant Barclays has promoted Shaygan Kheradpir to the newly created role of chief operations and technology officer.

Barclaycard appoints payment industry veteran Wright as US COO

Barclaycard US has appointed payments industry veteran Patrick Wright as chief operating officer.

Barclays taps BT for free in-branch Wi-Fi

Barclays has teamed up with BT to become the first major UK high street bank to introduce free Wi-Fi for customers in its 1500 branches.

Barclays preps social enterprise hackathons

Barclays is inviting UK tech and design bods to take part in a pair of hackathon weekends where they will work on socially useful finance-related ideas.

E*Trade puts former Barclays COO Paul Idzik in top job

E*Trade Financial has appointed former Barclays COO Paul Idzik as its new chief executive officer.