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News The RBS cuts follow a spate of similar reductions at other financial services institutions: late last year, Credit Suisse and HSBC announced plans to axe 1,150 IT jobs between them, while earlier this month Barclays... [22 May 2009]
Boots dispenses contactless payments
News Barclays and Barclaycard have also announced plans to enable payments via mobile phone to be available on the mass market by 2012. UK health retailer Boots is to trial contactless payments at UK stores. [13 May 2009]
Barclays to slash up to 350 more jobs
News Barclays has announced fresh tech job cuts that could see up to 350 permanent IT posts axed. The email warns that up to 700 IT jobs could go but Keith Brookes, national secretary for Barclays at union... [12 May 2009]
CDC Software Case Study: Barclays
White Paper Barclays is a UK-based financial services group, with a large international presence in Europe, the U.S. Barclays required a new system to help it manage complaints and feedback from customers. Due to... [30 Apr 2009]
Barclays Global Investors Accelerates Database Deployments to Support Critical Trading Applications
White Paper Barclays Global Investors wanted to implement a scalable IT infrastructure to support the company's core business - investment and asset management research and analysis and provide advanced support for transition from... [03 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: Buy British
Comment Meanwhile India, although impacted by the recession, is being propped up by the coffers of Barclays, BT and a host of other UK businesses. Offshoring IT jobs is bad for the UK, says the Naked CIO. And never has this been... [23 Mar 2009]
Photos: From wine tasting to choosing a mortgage
Photo Third party developers were also on hand to show what Surface applications they've been working on for a number of big names such as Barclays, Emirates, First Direct and Tesco.silicon.com went along for a closer look at... [19 Mar 2009]
Banks ditch offshorers for own techies abroad
News Eran Eisenberg, senior legal counsel at Barclays Bank, said financial institutions are now choosing to set up their own in-house offshore operations, known as captives, to handle business process outsourcing contracts. [10 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News Earlier this year Barclays announced it would be working towards moving its entire fleet of debit cards onto a contactless footing, with all replacement cards issued from March this year being NFC-enabled. [09 Mar 2009]
Drunk Facebook pics, iPlayer, BT and outsourcing hotspots
News Barclays CIO quits February started with a silicon.com exclusive that discovered UK police officers and border guards had no way of reading the information stored on ID cards' chips. But help could be at hand for... [05 Mar 2009]
The Hut buys its Zavvi savvy
News Barclays bank of the future Assets of the defunct multichannel entertainment retailer Zavvi have been acquired by The Hut Group for an undisclosed sum. The Hut - which runs white label retail sites for 15 retailers... [03 Mar 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News Barclays Bank has rolled out a contactless Visa debit card. As of yesterday, Barclays customers getting new or replacement cards will receive ones containing RFID technology. Click here for photos of... [03 Mar 2009]
CIO Job Report: February's movers and shakers
News Barclays is looking for a replacement CIO of global retail and commercial banking after previous incumbent Bob Rickert left this month. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes... [24 Feb 2009]
Securing your business - what to invest in
Comment One example is Barclays, which is rolling out enterprise-wide encryption and installing key management servers at its datacentres worldwide. Today's enterprise faces loads of security challenges. Andy McCue explains... [11 Feb 2009]
Police turn to IT industry to help fight cybercrime
News The event will also cover discussions with the hand-picked delegates about how to implement user awareness training across organisations, and it will feature presentations from British Airways and Barclays on the... [11 Feb 2009]
