Barclays and Ripple back SendFriend’s $1.7m funding
Philippine paytech finds lots of friends as it readies for US launch.
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Barclays has nod and Bink for loyalty programmes
Barclays leads an investment round of £10 million into the start-up.
Barclays raises Rise Growth Investment funds for fintech start-ups
Will offer new investment capital of £10 million per programme.
Barclays and Santander join £56m funding in MarketInvoice
UK-based SME lender plans fintech-bank partnerships.
Starling Bank’s Megan Caywood jumps to Barclays’ ship
She aims to have a bigger impact in the industry through fintech partnerships.
Barclays app turns on retailers with “turn off” spending feature
Customers can stop transactions at chosen retailers for greater control.
Job losses in Lithuania as Barclays hands ops centre to HCL
End of an era and not all employees will get a job at the Indian firm.
CYBG axes banking tech deal with ex-Barclays chief
Follows CYBG’s £1.7 billion takeover of Virgin Money.
Lemon Way taps Barclays for UK corporates
“The UK is the most mature market in Europe for crowdfunding and P2P lending.”
More downtime for UK’s TSB, HSBC and Barclays
Mobile and internet banking seems to be the issue this time.
Barclays unveils new digital platform in Western Europe
UK bank looking for more action in the corporate space.
Barclays, RBS and NatWest’s online systems go down
Only Barclays has resolved it so far.
Top fintech stories this week – 14 September 2018
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Barclays opens up mobile banking app to rival accounts
“First” UK bank to allow customers to bring their other current accounts into app.
Barclays seeks to boost e-trading innovation
Newly-created role will also look at AI and ML for improvements.
UK watchdog takes legal action over Barclays PPI breach
Barclays failed, for a second time, to send annual reminders to PPI customers.
Barclays takes stake in SME lender MarketInvoice
First high street bank to enter into a partnership with the fintech firm.
Barclays and JP Morgan lead $14m funding in Cloud9
Cloud9 will speed up roll-out of its SaaS-based voice communications platform.
Barclays battered in Current Account Switch Service contest
Latest CASS figures reveal the winners and losers.
Top fintech stories this week – 13 July 2018
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Barclays moves from FIS’s ACBS to Finastra’s Loan IQ system
EXCLUSIVE. Out with the old in this lendtech leap.
Barclays digital banking goes down
Seems to be resolved now, but it kept consumers unable to log in.
Top fintech stories this week – 22 June 2018
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Lloyds and Barclays cut hundreds of UK jobs
On top of all the other jobs axed.
Barclays predictively partners with Simudyne for risk management
UK firm Simudyne is an alumni of the Barclays Accelerator.
Shieldpay powers UK’s first digital real estate transaction
A big real estate market to transform.
Barclays escapes fraud charges over Qatar capital raising
But UK’s Serious Fraud Office is “likely to seek to re-instate these charges”.
Barclays CEO fined to tune of £640,000 over whistleblower antics
Give us this day our Staley bread; and forgive him his trespasses.
Regtech start-up ClauseMatch lands £3.6m funding
ClauseMatch raised £3.6 million ($5 million) from Index Ventures and other investors.
Barclays UK Ventures in pursuit of innovation
BUKV will work as a start-up, will partner with fintechs and invest in them.
Where top European banks are investing in fintech – CB Insights
European banks are investing in wealthtech, lendtech, paytech, regtech and blockchain.
bPay teams with seven brands to launch contactless payment watches
Contactless watches for every taste.
Barclays France in wealth management tech revamp
New owner AnaCap aims to create “the leading independent wealth manager in France”.
Top ten fintech start-up stories in 2017
A busy year for fintech start-ups, but take a trip down memory lane with Banking Technology’s top ten.
Ex-Barclays boss mulls £10m Tandem investment
Former Barclays boss, Bob Diamond, is in talks to buy a stake in UK-based challenger bank Tandem.
Barclays Enables ‘Voice Pay’ with Siri
Barclays announced on Aug. 21 that it’s the first U.K. high street bank that lets mobile banking customers make a payment by asking Siri. The payment, which relies on TouchID for authentication, can be completed without opening the Barclays Mobile Banking app.
People on the Move: Tommaso Zanobini, Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has named Tommaso Zanobini global head of financial technology.
Barclays rolls out “anytime, anywhere” video banking
Barclays has launched a new video banking service on smartphone, tablet and computer, which it says will allow customers to have face to face conversations with the bank anytime, anywhere, without having to visit a branch.
