ASK TONY: Why couldn’t Barclays help my grieving brother?

Could you help me retrieve more than £100,000 of my brother’s money from a dormant account with Barclays? The money was in a joint account held with his wife, who died last October. Barclays initially said it had located it. He sent the documentation requested but then received a letter saying the account could not … Read more

Postcodes with biggest house price increase according to Barclays Mortgages Postcode Property Index

House prices in Oldham are increasing the most across UK towns and cities and at DOUBLE the national average, Barclays Mortgages’ Postcode Property Index reveals – and Croydon is seeing the biggest growth in London House prices in 0L8, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have seen the biggest rise Property value increased by an average of … Read more

Drink-driving Barclays banker, 28, is jailed for two years after smashing his Audi into a taxi

A Barclays banker has been jailed for two years after smashing his Audi into a taxi before leaving two sisters for dead and lying to police about his car being stolen. Sohail Yousif, 28, was driving home to Great Lever, Bolton, after drinking in a Manchester nightclub on February 9 last year when he ploughed into … Read more

Barclays will send ‘hundreds’ of UK staff back to WFH after Boris Johnson’s latest Covid measures

Barclays bank told hundreds of office staff who had returned after lockdown to restart working from home tonight – following vague new advice from the Prime Minister branded ‘unclear and inconsistent’ by business leaders. The huge company had originally brought 1,000 employees back after the strict pandemic shut-down over the summer. It came as other … Read more

Thousands of Barclays and Barclaycard customers unable to access money on mobile apps

Thousands of Barclays and Barclaycard customers are unable to access their money on mobile apps after they go down Barclays and Barclaycard apps have crashed causing floods of complaints The bank confirmed it was experiencing issues on its service update page Downdetector saw complaints beginning at around midday and continuing   By Kate Dennett For Mailonline … Read more

Barclays and Barclaycard customers can’t access money as apps crash

Thousands of Barclays and Barclaycard customers are unable to access their money as mobile apps crash Barclays and Barclaycard apps have crashed causing floods of complaints The bank confirmed it was experiencing issues on its service update page Downdetector saw complaints beginning at around midday and continuing   By Kate Dennett For Mailonline Published: 14:10 BST, … Read more

Why didn’t Barclays text me about a payment I was about to miss?

‘Barclays’ text alert service failed me at the crucial time’: Customer penalised as bank denies credit card direct debit despite ‘automated’ insufficient funds warning Adrian, 28, from Lancashire, was billed £11 for missing a direct debit payment  He normally receives alerts from Barclays telling him to top up his account   However in June the alert … Read more

Barclays attempts to close advice gap with Plan & Invest service

Barclays has launched an online investing  service in a bid to plug the so-called advice gap with a ‘personalised investment plan’. Initially only available to Barclays current account customers with at least £5,000 to invest, but soon to be rolled out further, Plan & Invest is designed for those without the know-how, time or confidence … Read more

Barclays and Santander reveal 677,000 borrowers have taken payment holidays

Hundreds of thousands of customers of Barclays and Santander have taken payment holidays on credit cards, personal loans and mortgages, the banks revealed in results today. At the same time, official figures from the Bank of England show households have cleared billions of pounds of debt over the last few months. Britain’s third-largest mortgage lender … Read more

Best savings rates: Barclays becomes the last high street bank to pay just 0.01% interest

A decade of misery for Britain’s savers has been capped off by cuts to easy access rates which now mean that savers can get no more than £1 interest for every £10,000 saved at any of the High Street banks. Barclays has followed HSBC, Lloyds Bank, NatWest and Santander in slashing the rate on its … Read more