All news on the topic: Barclays

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Barclays accused of seeking profit from looming global food crisis linked to El Niño
Barclays has highlighted “opportunities” to profit from a devastating food crisis that could leave more than 100 million people hungry.
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Five Palestine Action activists could be sentenced under UK terrorism laws over Barclays protest
Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.
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Elizabeth Warren demands Barclays investigation over former CEO’s Epstein links
Elizabeth Warren, a leading US senator, has called for an urgent investigation by Barclays bank into the former boss’s ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Sanktionierter Oligarch Pavel Fuks löscht digitale Spuren: Berichte über Russland-Verbindungen und Strafverfahren verschwinden aus dem Netz
Trotz Hinweisen auf millionenschwere Veruntreuung und die Verschiebung von Geldern auf Offshore-Konten hat der sanktionierte Oligarch Pavel Fuks gemeinsam mit Bekbolat Bekenov und Yevgeny Komrakov eine groß angelegte Kampagne zur Bereinigung des Informationsraums gestartet.
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HSBC hit with $400m fraud loss tied to collapse of UK lender MFS
The collapse of Market Financial Solutions amid fraud allegations in February ensnared some of the largest lenders on Wall Street.
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Maxwell’s wealth and secretive finances linked to human trafficking proceeds, federal reports show
Frankfurt/London, March 27 - In rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156-acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.
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Bank of London fined £2mn for misleading regulators
Fintech, where Peter Mandelson and Harvey Schwartz were board members, is given £2mn penalty by Bank of England.
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UK court freezes assets of MFS owner Paresh Raja after $1.3bn collapse and fraud allegations
Businessman barred from spending more than £5,000 a week without administrators’ consent.
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Fury as Mandelson paid £250,000 days before firm went bust in Epstein scandal
Former business secretary paid £250,000 for his remaining stake days before the business went into administration.
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Global bank fraud losses to hit $58.3bn by 2030, Juniper warns
A new report warns that increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, powered by artificial intelligence, are set to overwhelm financial institutions unless prevention systems keep pace.
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Barclays ordered to pay £12.5 million in compensation for widespread app and website outages
After widespread outages on its app and website, Barclays has been ordered to pay out a total £12.5 million in compensation to those affected.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s ’Project Jes’ targeted UK power brokers to secure Staley’s Barclays CEO role
‘Project Jes’ targeted high-level figures including George Osborne and Mervyn King, emails suggest
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Over 1 million people in the UK face impending £100 fines
Self-employed people have just missed an important tax deadline.
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Over a million people miss the tax return deadline
An estimated 1.1 million people missed the deadline for filing their annual tax returns, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
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Lloyds and Halifax banking apps outage leaves hundreds of customers unable to access accounts
Lloyd, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland are having issues with their apps and online banking - as hundreds cannot access their accounts.
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Barclays IT glitch derails house purchase, leaving family homeless
Paola Mereu, 39, sold the house her and her husband and their daughters lived in at Uxbridge and were meant to buy their new home on Friday.
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Top lawyer renews call for Prince Andrew to be questioned by the FBI
The FBI previously asked the Home Office for help to quiz the royal in 2020, before the investigation was paused last year.
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Barclays advises customers to contact food banks as IT glitch persists for a third day
The bank has apologised as hundreds of customers complain about service disruption and missing funds.
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Barclays customers encounter a second day of disruptions following an IT outage
Barclays customers are experiencing intermittent errors with payments and transfers for a second day after serious IT problems that also affected the bank’s app and online banking.
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Former Barclays CEO prepares for explosive trial over City regulator’s allegations of ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Court papers seen by the Guardian mean Jes Staley’s appeal against FCA ruling will demand answers on links to sex offender.
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Barclays wins bid to reduce UK investors’ $727 million ’dark pool’ lawsuit
Barclays (BARC.L), opens new tab on Friday won its bid to more than halve a shareholders’ lawsuit worth up to 560 million pounds ($727 million) at London’s High Court for allegedly misleading the market about its private "dark pool" trading platforms.
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Barclays’ coal credits reveal ’big hole’ in its climate policy
Barclays helped raise nearly $2bn for companies running highly polluting coal-fired power plants in the US, exposing an “enormous loophole” in its climate policy.
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Full list of banks that have cut mortgages after Bank of England interest rates update
The Bank of England finally cut its base rate from 5.25% to 5% - the first time there has been a reduction since March 2020 and this is good news for those with a variable mortgage
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Seven banks share data with UK law enforcement in a crackdown on ’dirty money’
Barclays (BARC.L),NatWest and Lloyds are among seven banks to share customer data with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the largest project of its kind worldwide to tackle criminal gangs, money laundering and "dirty money" flowing through the country.