All news on the topic: Barclays

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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
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Romantics showed high street some love with boost in sales of flowers and meals
Transactions at florists were up by 10.4% annually on February 13, the day before Valentine's Day, Barclays said
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UK's five biggest banks are expected to reveal record £50 billion profits
The UK's biggest banks are set to report record-high profits after a year that saw lenders benefit from higher borrowing costs, as they face questions over the outlook for the year ahead
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WSL bids to seal eye-catching TV deal - £20million and every match shown live
The Women's Super League's current £7.75million-a-year broadcast deal is set to expire at the end of this season with more than half of matches broadcast for free on the FA's website
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UK town dubbed 'Costa Del Dole' suffers new blow as high street staple shuts
A major high street institution is set to close its branch in a seaside town dubbed 'Costa Del Dole' due to what it describes as 'changes in customer behaviour'
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Barclays to stop financing new oil and gas projects in climate strategy update
The bank has pledged to focus capital on supporting energy companies to decarbonise
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Tesco Bank is being sold to major rival - with five million customers affected
The banking giant expects to pay roughly £600million for the credit cards, loans, savings and operating systems of the UK's largest supermarket
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CMC Markets to axe 200 jobs as the online trading platform looks to save £21m
The London-headquartered firm founded by Conservative peer Lord Peter Cruddas said it was cutting its global workforce by about 17% to "drive efficiencies and control costs"
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It's not Glastonbury, but Bristol City Women are doing matchdays differently
Bristol City Women sit bottom of the league table and have not won a game at home but the club are creating one of Europe's highest average attendances by making matchdays different than your average
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Jeremy Hunt holds meeting with bank bosses in bid to boost interest in City
The Chancellor and Bim Afolami, the economic secretary to the Treasury, met with bosses at Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander UK and the London Stock Exchange Group on Tuesday morning
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Bob Diamond's Panmure Gordon to merge with Liberum as Rich Ricci takes top job
The newly named Panmure Liberum will be led by Mr Ricci as chief executive and Liberum founder Shane Le Prevost as non-executive chairman
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Barclays to close another 20 bank branches - see full list of sites set to shut
Over the last decade, more and more banks have announced branch closures as people choose to do their banking online and since 2015 around 6,000 branches have shut their doors for good
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Barclays issue warning as scam sees criminals sneak into devices to steal cash
Barclays explained that mobile malware is "harmful software" that is specifically designed by criminals to spy, control and attack personal devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches
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Mortgage price war ramps up as more than 30 lenders slash borrowing costs
Mortgage borrowing costs are coming down because market analysts are expecting the Bank of England to finally start cutting its base rate, which is currently at 5.25%
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Full list of bank closures happening in 2024 from Barclays to NatWest
Data from consumer champion Which? shows 5,791 branches have shut for good since January 2015 - and there are 189 more closures scheduled for 2024
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Best UK Boxing Day sales deals recap as Amazon, Boots and more slash prices
Clothes, shoes and accessories were the most sought-after products during this year's Boxing Day sales - with four in five people's budgets unaffected by the current financial climate