UK bank shares: A pre-Brexit view March 12, 2019 | City Talk Some UK bank shares have made massive profits for shareholders, but how should you play the sector now? It’s been a few weeks since the last of the big UK-listed banks published results for 2018, and share price performance since has been varied. Brexit, of course, has played its part and, with some lenders up [...]
UK digital advertising spend to grow to £15bn in 2019, report states March 4, 2019 Spending on digital advertising in the UK is set to grow to more than £15bn this year amid a boom in new digital marketing technology, a new report has revealed. Digital ad spend will enjoy double-digit growth in 2019 as the industry moves away from traditional media forms, according to the latest forecasts by Barclays [...]
Ranked: The high street banks with the most IT outages March 4, 2019 UK banks are suffering IT outages or security failures at a rate of more than one a day, new figures from the financial watchdog have revealed. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) now requires banks to publish information on IT failures. Read more: Barclays down: Banking app outage hits customers Analysis conducted by Which found there [...]
Ex-Barclays boss John Varley says £322m Qatar payment ‘not conditional’ on its involvement in the bank’s fundraising February 28, 2019 The former chief executive of Barclays John Varley said the bank’s controversial £322m services agreements with Qatar were “not conditional” on the Gulf state’s participation in its financial crisis fundraising, a court heard today. Varley, who is on trial for fraud alongside former colleagues Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath, was in court to [...]
Female fintech leaders highlighted as sector faces continued lack of gender diversity February 28, 2019 Senior figures at major banking and professional services firms including HSBC, Barclays, Schroders and Monzo have been recognised on a list of women excelling in Fintech. A total of 35 women including HSBC head of digital innovation Diana Biggs, Starling Bank founder Anne Boden and Monzo chief technology officer Meri Williams were highlighted on Innovate [...]
Customers locked out of Barclays app as banking giant suffers IT outage February 28, 2019 Barclays customers were locked out of the bank's mobile banking app this morning after it suffered an IT outage. Read more: Barclays suffers online banking outage The latest glitch follows an outage earlier this month which left customers unable to access the mobile banking app or online services for hours. In a statement posted on Twitter this morning the [...]
Ex-Barclays director says controversial deal with Qatar helped it win work in the Middle East February 27, 2019 A former Barclays executive told a court today that the bank’s two controversial £322m services agreements with Qatar at the time of its £12bn financial crisis fundraisings subsequently helped it win work in the Middle East. Former Barclays director Glenn Leighton said projects he had worked on in Bahrain and Kuwait were landed with the [...]
Barclays banker says she knew nothing of £322m services deal with Qatar February 26, 2019 Evidence from a former vice-chairman of Barclays Capital was read to a London court today, revealing she was not aware of two services agreements the bank struck with Qatar in 2008. Gay Huey Evans, who is currently deputy chairman of the Financial Reporting Council, said Barclays’ former executive chairman of investment banking Roger Jenkins was [...]
Barclays and Bank of Ireland sued over film finance tax evasion scheme February 26, 2019 Barclays and Bank of Ireland are being sued as part of a £180m lawsuit brought by investors in a film finance scheme the pair were involved in. Investors in the Eclipse film financing scheme lost out after tax authorities ruled the vehicle, which purported to invest in Disney films, was actually a tax avoidance scheme. [...]
Ex-Barclays Bank chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone to chair Investcorp and Aberdeen Standards joint venture February 26, 2019 Former Barclays Bank chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone has been appointed chairman of Investcorp and Aberdeen Standard’s gulf infrastructure investment joint venture. Grimstone, who stepped down from his role at Barclays investment arm on Friday, is rejoining Standard Life Aberdeen after resigning as chairman in January this year. Read more: Chairman of Barclays' investment banking arm [...]