NEWS: We're excited to announce our new title sponsorship of the FA Women's Super League and renewal of our commitment as Official Banking Partner of the Premier League.
@premierleague
@FAWSL
@FA
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a remarkable, much loved and hugely respected figure. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family at this extremely sad time.
We’ve added free everyday banking and overdraft facilities to our wider support package for small and medium-sized businesses impacted by
#Coronavirus
. Visit our website to see how we can help.
NEWS: We’re today announcing the establishment of the Barclays Foundation, which will provide a
#COVID19
Community Aid Package of £100 million to charities working to support vulnerable people impacted by the pandemic. Find out more:
NEWS: Listen to Barclays Group CEO Jes Staley share highlights from our Full Year 2018 Results. Follow
#BarclaysResults
for updates throughout the day.
THANK YOU: Whether you’re one of the tens of thousands of Barclays colleagues working on one of our premises or remotely, to support our customers and clients through these uncertain times, thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Paul Compton, Barclays Group COO, met
@ScotGovFM
@NicolaSturgeon
this morning to announce plans for our new Glasgow campus, creating up to 2,500 additional jobs, with a commitment to employing young people & those with disabilities. Read more
#BackingtheUK
Ever wondered how
#blockchain
works or how it differs from
#cryptocurrency
? Barclays colleagues Dr Lee Braine and Anthony Macey answer some of the most searched for questions on blockchain.
🎾 Game, set, & perfectly matched. We can’t wait for
@Wimbledon
to start – our 1st as Official Banking Partner.
We're uniting two iconic British brands, supporting the
@WimbledonFdn
& joining with
@FTiafoe
, to help more people thrive in their community.
CONGRATULATIONS: to six of our Barclays colleagues who were winners at the ‘We are the City Rising Stars 2020’ awards – which aim to showcase the UK pipeline of female talent and create female role models across different industries and professions.
Today we launch our second
#ThrivingLocalEconomies
pilot in
#Kilmarnock
, Scotland 🏴 - a three-year partnership with local businesses, government and schools, to identify ways to boost economic growth and employability.
We'll be donating £1 million and also matching our customer’s donations via our link of up to a further £1 million to Comic Relief & BBC Children in Need so they can fund life-changing work and support local charities and projects in the UK during the coronavirus crisis.
Another huge thank you to the NHS, all key workers and our front line staff in branches and call centres for their relentless hard work and dedication in the fight against coronavirus.
Today we became the first UK high street bank to allow customers to block spending with certain types of retailers e.g. gambling – giving customers more control over where they spend their money.
We might not be celebrating Pride together this summer in the same way, but at Barclays we will always proudly celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community, and create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel confident bringing their whole selves to work.
For a 6th consecutive year,
@StonewallUK
have named Barclays as a Top Global Employer for LGBT+ inclusion and we are incredibly proud of this achievement
#StonewallTopGlobal
A year ago we officially opened our Pune, India campus and while 2020 hasn’t allowed us to enjoy much time there, this space will provide a world-class working environment for years to come.
“In February, we set out a three-year plan to deliver a better run, more strongly performing and higher returning Barclays. We are executing in a disciplined way against our plan, and I am pleased with our Q1 performance.” Group CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan, on our Q1 2024 results.
NEWS: We’ve launched a package of support to help SMEs affected by recent flooding:
🌧️ £50m Adverse Weather Fund
📱 360k SMEs have pre-assessed lending limits accessible via Barclays app or online
📅 12 month capital repayment holidays on existing loans over £25k.
#BackingtheUK
COVID-19 BUSINESS SUPPORT UPDATE: Across four government-backed schemes, we have so far facilitated £12.4 billion in funding to small, medium and large businesses across the UK, helping them to navigate the pandemic and protect jobs.
@hmtreasury
@bankofengland
We are delighted to be progressing with the construction of our state-of-the-art Barclays Glasgow Campus – a key global site which will be home to thousands of colleagues.
NEWS: Today we’ve launched a package of support to help UK SMEs succeed through
#Brexit
and beyond, including:
💰 A dedicated £14bn lending fund
🗣️ Over 100 Brexit clinics and seminars
🤝An established network of on-the-ground Relationship Managers
#BackingtheUK
From starting her first business aged 10 to helping launch Starling Bank,
@MeganCaywood
has innovation in her DNA. We spoke to our new Head of Digital Strategy about how ‘disrupting ourselves’ is key to delivering for customers.
Our colleague Jim Seabrook is retiring after 50 years at Barclays. He joined the bank at 16 years old and has worked through everything from Decimalisation to the Great Storm of 1987. We’d like to say a huge thank you to him for his dedication and service over the last 5 decades.
Barclays extends its sports sponsorship portfolio to include
@premierleague
leaders
@ManCity
and become the Club’s Official Banking & Credit Card Tour Partner to the USA.
NEWS: Today we launch our
#GlobalConnect
programme – an initiative of Barclays-designed trips for UK start-ups to visit the world’s leading
#innovation
hubs, build their networks and grow. First stop: Silicon Valley in September.
#BackingtheUK
#BarclaysResults
: “We achieved a great deal in 2022, delivering a robust performance, achieving our financial objectives, while supporting our customers and clients through a challenging year.” Group CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan, on our Full Year 2022 Results:
Gillean Dooney, Managing Director at Barclays on removing customer overdrafts fees from 27 March to 30 April to support people in financial difficulty. We’ll do this automatically, so there’s no need to call us.
We’re excited to announce the first in a series of three-year commitments to increase support for female entrepreneurs. Through our LifeSkills programme, we will help the next generation of business owners turn their plans into reality.
#BackingtheUK
The construction of our state-of-the-art Barclays Glasgow Campus continues to progress - it will be a key global site for the bank, providing thousands of jobs in Scotland.
COVID-19 BUSINESS SUPPORT UPDATE: So far, across four government-backed schemes, we have facilitated £14.4 billion in funding to small, medium and large businesses across the UK.
@hmtreasury
@bankofengland
“If we want our economy to grow and our young people to succeed, then we need to ensure investment in opportunities takes place not just in big cities, but also in communities like Kilmarnock.” Jes Staley, Group CEO, launches
#ThrivingLocalEconomies
Kilmarnock.
To mark our Rise network turning 5, Ashok Vaswani, CEO of Consumer Banking & Payments and Magdalena Krön, Rise Global Fintech Platform Director, discussed how our future in fintech will build on Barclays’ history of innovation.
Yesterday we sponsored the first ever party conference
@UKWPFC
match, which saw MPs from the two major parties put their political differences aside to take on
@LewesFCWomen
Vets.
We’re helping
@mariecurieuk
to digitise their services through our £100m COVID-19 Community Aid Package and are proud to support them as they mark the UK’s
#DayOfReflection
. You can help make a difference to families living with terminal illness here:
Take a look at our new world-class campus in Pune, India. The site is the biggest outside our London HQ - housing 9,000 colleagues over 1.1 million square feet and designed with a commitment to the environment.
From 2023 we'll be the Official Banking Partner of The Championships, Wimbledon.
The multi-year partnership includes one of the biggest donations yearly by an official partner to the Wimbledon Foundation, and further community investment to create opportunities through sport.
In 1959, we became the first British bank to introduce an electronic computer. Find out what this ‘futuristic’ move meant for colleagues, customers and banking itself.
Hundreds of servicemen who lost their sight in combat were hired by Barclays as part of a pioneering scheme that began in 1946. Ahead of
#RemembranceSunday
, we tell the stories of the blind telephonists.
Ben Davey, CEO of Barclays UK Ventures, spoke to
@FinTechInsiders
podcast about identifying, incubating and scaling new ideas to better serve customers
#fintech
@11FS
Since suffering a stroke at just 22, Annabel Jones of Barclaycard, has spent the last eight years campaigning for the rights of stroke survivors and was recently awarded an MBE.
We’re proud to be ranked number 1 on
@LinkedInUK
’s 2021 UK Top Companies list. Thank you to every colleague who’s helped make it happen, nurturing an inclusive business where we strive to ensure everyone is supported to grow and succeed.
#LinkedInTopCompanies
We’ve launched Barclays Air cabs, 10 electric taxis with
@air_labs
’ innovative air cleaning technology on board - removing up to 97% of particulate matter. Available for hire on London’s streets until September.
#BackingtheUK
Our Group CEO Jes Staley has joined the UK government’s financial services trade advisory group to help deliver trade deals that benefit the whole country.
#BackingtheUK
NEWS: Today we announced that Barclays will acquire the retail banking business of Tesco, which allows us to create new distribution channels for our growing UK consumer lending and savings businesses.
Find out more:
We know things are very uncertain at the moment. So we wanted to let you know that while all this is going on, you can still manage your money as you did before with our app and online banking. Thank you for your ongoing patience and support.
CONGRATULATIONS to three of our Barclays colleagues who have been honoured with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in The Queen’s New Year Honours List.
Today, Barclays senior leaders joined the Prime Minister at the UK's Global Investment Summit to celebrate the UK’s world-renowned innovation and creativity - and to discuss the UK’s growth and investment opportunities.
Double congratulations to Abisola Barber for also winning the Rising Star Award at this year’s
#WIBFAwards
. We are extremely proud of your inspiring work promoting diversity and inclusion at Barclays
@WIBFtweets
Congratulations to our 5 colleagues who have been recognised as EMpower Ethnic Minority Role Models for 2021. All were praised for their contributions to our colleague multicultural network, Embrace, as well as driving the ‘Race at Work’ agenda.
#EMRoleModels2021
COVID-19 BUSINESS SUPPORT UPDATE: So far, across four government-backed schemes, we have facilitated £15.7 billion in funding to small, medium and large businesses across the UK.
@hmtreasury
@bankofengland
The first ever
@Barclaycard
was launched in 1966. Take a walk down memory lane with us as we look back at one of Barclays' defining moments.
#ThrowbackThursday
#TBT
NEWS: Barclays announces plans to expand the
@YourLifeSkills
programme to all ages – as research reveals a growing employability skills gap amongst UK adults. Read more:
Barclays colleague, Sabrina Boanu-Williams, received an MBE for helping hundreds of prisoners gain the skills to find work after release. We find out how her journey from homelessness to employment inspired her to give back.