British lender Barclays logged a 17% increase in profits for the first half of 2026. The profit rise was fueled mainly by strong performance from Barclay’s investment banking arm amid an uptick in dealmaking and financial market activity, The Independent reported Tuesday (July 28). This...
U.K. customers of banks and banking apps reported problems with transfers and payments Monday (July 27), according to multiple media reports. Among the organizations mentioned in one or more media reports were Barclays, Halifax, HSBC, Monzo, Lloyds and Revolut. PYMNTS found at 3:30 p.m. Eastern...
Electronics giant Samsung has teamed with Barclays to roll out its first credit card. The Samsung Galaxy Card will run on Visa’s network, with applications set to open Wednesday (July 22), according to a company announcement. Available in both virtual and physical card formats, the...
Swift is working with four U.K. banking giants to improve cross-border consumer payments. The initiative, announced Thursday (July 2), sees the global messaging network teaming with Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest to improve international retail transfers. “This framework represents an important step forward for the UK payments ecosystem,” Adam Bealey, Swift’s chief executive for...
October 04, 2021
The chain of data protection – keeping the most sensitive information out of the hands of hackers and other bad actors – is only as strong as its weakest link. In the age of open banking, where data access can be broad indeed – where consumers grant permission, and traditional financial institutions (FIs) give access […]
January 12, 2021
Historically, corporate travel and expense (T&E) management has been viewed as an entirely separate function from other B2B payment workflows. With employees seeking to use company cash in the same...
November 11, 2020
Domestic B2B payments are complicated enough, but making these payments across international borders is a whole other challenge. Companies that rely on cross-border B2B payments may not have to deal...
August 06, 2018
Ironically, as the global economy has gotten stronger, payment cycles between buyers and suppliers have gotten longer. What was once an average of about 45 days from invoice to payment has increased...
October 01, 2026
British universal bank Barclays expects half of its developers to be using Anthropic’s agentic artificial intelligence coding tool Claude Code by the end of the year, and most of them to be using it by the end of 2027, Anthropic said in a Thursday (Oct. 1) press release. The growing adoption of Claude Code is […]
July 28, 2026
British lender Barclays logged a 17% increase in profits for the first half of 2026. The profit rise was fueled mainly by strong performance from Barclay’s investment banking arm amid...
July 27, 2026
U.K. customers of banks and banking apps reported problems with transfers and payments Monday (July 27), according to multiple media reports. Among the organizations mentioned in one or more media...
July 21, 2026
Electronics giant Samsung has teamed with Barclays to roll out its first credit card. The Samsung Galaxy Card will run on Visa’s network, with applications set to open Wednesday (July...
