Barclays Bank

Barclays Hands Bosses £40m Windfall.. On Budget Day

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.03.2013 | UK

Barclays investment banking chief Rich Ricci landed an £18 million windfall today after the bank handed out mammoth share awards to top bosses. Ri...

Barclays Finance Director Stepping Down

PA | Posted 04.02.2013 | UK

Barclays bank announced tonight that finance director Chris Lucas was stepping down. Lucas and general counsel Mark Harding will leave the company ...

Food prices, Hurricane Sandy and Speculation

Deborah Doane | Posted 05.01.2013 | UK Politics
Deborah Doane

Aside from facing a few days off the trading floor last week in Wall Street, big banks will be the ones to benefit the most from the impacts of Hurricane Sandy. Wall Street and other financial centres, such as the City of London, have ridden the wave of extreme weather over the past year, including the drought in the US, driving food commodity prices to new heights.

Busted! Bank Clerk Who Stole £46k For Beauty Treatments Including Boob Job Is Jailed

SWNS | Sara C Nelson | Posted 21.11.2012 | UK

An aspiring glamour model who stole £46,000 from the bank where she worked to fund a boob job, dental work and liposuction has been jailed for a year...

Barclays Calls For New Industry Body With Power To Ban Rogue Bankers

PA | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK

Disgraced lender Barclays has called for a new industry body to be formed with the power to ban rogue bankers in the wake of the rate rigging scandal,...

Who Is Bob Diamond's Replacement?

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.08.2012 | UK

Under-fire banking giant Barclays today named its retail and business banking boss Antony Jenkins as chief executive. The appointment of Jenkins co...

Banker Bashes MPs

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.08.2012 | UK

Bob Diamond, the former Former Barclays boss who resigned in the wake of revelations about Libor rate-fixing, has hit back at claims he was "highly se...

Pavarotti Lookalike Is Refused Bank Card

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.08.2012 | UK Comedy

Colin Miller was recently stunned to find his application for a Barclays personalised photo card had been turned down - after staff suggested he didn'...

Pictured Topless: The Barclays Bank Clerk Who Stole £46,000 To Fund Boob Job

SWNS | Sara C Nelson | Posted 18.07.2012 | UK

An aspiring model stole £46,000 from the bank where she worked - and splashed the cash on a boob job, dental work and liposuction. Rachael Claire ...

Aspiring Model Stole £46,000 From Barclays For Boob Jobs And Lipo

SWNS | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK

An aspiring model stole £46,000 from the bank where she worked - and splashed the cash on a boob job, dental work and liposuction. Pretty Rachael ...

'Unfair And Unfounded' - Bob Diamond Strikes Back At MPs

Posted 10.07.2012 | UK

Bob Diamond has angrily rejected suggestions that he misled MPs over regulators' concerns about activities at Barclays. The bank's former boss said...

Stephen Merchant Quits As Voice Of Barclays

The Evening Standard | Posted 09.09.2012 | UK Comedy

Comedian Stephen Merchant has quit as the voice of Barclays ads because of "increasing commitments in the US". The star, 37, is believed to have en...

Tory MP: Osborne Should Apologise To Balls

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2012 | UK Politics

A Conservative MP has urged Chancellor George Osborne to apologise to rival Ed Balls for saying he had "questions to answer" over the Barclays rate-fi...

Relief For Balls As Bank Chief Says He Played No Role In Libor

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK Politics

Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker has given former Labour ministers Ed Balls and Shriti Vadera a huge boost by telling MPs that he had no co...

City of London's Reputation is the Loser in Barclays Debacle

Roland Cross | Posted 04.09.2012 | UK Politics
Roland Cross

The events of the last week have been highly damaging to the City of London. Implications that the Bank of England implicitly endorsed the manipulation of the one of the world's key interest rate indicators struck at the heart of the City's reputation as the world's leading financial centre.

We'll Break Up the Banks, Promise The Two Eds

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 08.09.2012 | UK Politics

Labour leader Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls have been outlining how they would break up Britain's big five high street banks, believing t...

Things We Know Now..

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 03.09.2012 | UK Politics

It was quite a frustrating afternoon for MPs on the Treasury Committee, who found Bob Diamond difficult to pin down on some fairly critical question a...

Marcus Agius And Five More Unwelcome Comebacks

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 03.07.2012 | UK

News of the dramatic "unresignation" of Marcus Agius, the former Barclays chairman who returned to the role of executive chairman after just one day, ...

Diamond And Cameron Face A Grilling..

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK Politics

The box-office event at Westminster takes place on Wednesday, when Barclays boss Bob Diamond appears before MPs on the Treasury Committee to answer a ...

Government To Set Up Review Of Inter-Bank Lending Rate

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.08.2012 | UK

An urgent independent review into the inter-bank lending rate is to be set up by the Government next week in the wake of the interest rigging scandal....

Barclays Should Face 'Criminal Investigation', Says Miliband

Posted 28.06.2012 | UK Politics

Ed Miliband has called for a criminal investigation into Barclays after the bank was fined £290 million for manipulating interest rates. In a spee...

WATCH: Did Jimmy Carr Follow His Own Advice?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK Comedy

UPDATE: Jimmy Carr apologises for "error of judgement" over tax affairs According to The Times, Jimmy Carr is among thousands of wealthy British pe...

The Customer is Doing US a Favour!

Richard Denny | Posted 30.07.2012 | UK
Richard Denny

Much of what I talk about and what we teach at Denny Training, is to ensure that at all times, the customer is at the forefront of every decision we make.

WATCH: Unintentionally Hilarious David Hasselhoff Advert

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 10.05.2012 | UK Comedy

David Hasselhoff is an iconic human being. Star of Baywatch, judge on Britain's Got Talent, '80s pop sensation... he's some sort of living legend. ...

A Sticker On Your Mobile Allows Barclaycard Contactless Payments

PA | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Tech

Millions of Barclaycard Visa credit card customers will be able to make "contactless" payments using a sticker attached to the back of their mobile ph...