All news on the topic: Barclays

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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.
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The mortgage price war intensifies as leading lenders like Barclays and Halifax reduce their rates
This week alone Barclays, Halifax, First Direct, Nationwide and Virgin Money have all announced changes to their home deals while last week HSBC, Yorkshire Building Society, and Santander also lowered mortgage rates
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Barclays suspends sponsorship of festivals including Download and Latitude after boycotts
Following protests from fans and artists, the bank Barclays has pulled its sponsorship from festivals including Download, Latitude and the Isle of Wight festival.
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Barclays branches targeted by pro-Palestine activists
Barclays denies investment in Israeli firms with links to the arms trade as at least 20 of its branches are vandalised in attacks overnight that also involved climate activists.
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Barclays, NatWest and Lloyds customers issued warning in 388 towns
Labour has warned that many communities have been turned into ’banking deserts’ as branches disappear from high streets without there being any alternatives nearby
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Wettest February on record dampens consumer demand - British Retail Consortium
Retailers have suffered poor retail sales due to the wet weather with toy sales the only bright spot as parents tried to keep their children entertained indoors
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Debanking: More than 140,000 business accounts forcibly closed down in 2023
MPs on the Treasury Committee gathered the information as part of a probe into how many small to medium businesses face being debanked
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Record 80% of 85 and 95 now pay with contactless, Barclays research shows
The figures were based on Barclays debit card and Barclaycard credit card transactions made by consumers
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High street banks closing 49 branches in March - from Barclays to NatWest
There are already 249 high street bank closures scheduled to take place in 2024, including 49 happening next month by Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, NatWest and Ulster Bank
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'The obscene profits made by the Big Four banks will stick in the craw'
The Big Four banks' profit gains were made off soaring interest rates, which have cost households hundreds more in mortgage and rental costs - corporations put profits ahead of people
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Car finance probe: What is being investigated and will customers be compensated?
Lloyds has become the first UK bank to set aside hundreds of millions of pounds in case it has to compensate car finance customers, amid a major investigation into whether people overpaid on their loans
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Lloyds, HSBC, Barclays and NatWest rake in £44bn as borrowers hit by rate hikes
Lloyds Banking Group was the last to report its annual results as it today revealed it made a record £7.5billion last year - a more than 50% leap on 2022
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Barclays overhaul welcomed by investors, but fears raised about further job cuts
The bank is aiming to save about £1 billion from making the bank more efficient this year, and targeting about £2 billion worth of savings in total by 2026
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Barclays profits fall by 6% to £6.6bn as bank spends £1bn on restructuring
In the last quarter, its profit dropped by 92% from £1.3 billion the previous year to £110 million