Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he tackles pay rows at Barclays, how WH Smith is clinging on and a floating debate for Monzo Are Barclays pay rows a mere historical relic?

The high street banking giant has moved to launch a so-called ‘innovative’ new mortgage that means first-time buyers can borrow MORE from the financial provider.

Barclays PLC closed 3.32% short of its 52-week high of £2.99, which the company achieved on January 22nd.

Shares of Barclays PLC BARC dropped 1.59% to £2.88 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX rising 0.02% to 8,503.71. Supported by world-class markets data from Dow Jones and FactSet,

The UK-headquartered bank is proposing to nearly halve the amount of money guaranteed to CEO CS Venkatakrishnan each year while capping his maximum pay package at £14.3m, Sky News can exclusively reveal.

If Banco Santander’s Ana Botín wants to sell her British retail business, there’s an obvious buyer: Barclays boss C. S. Venkatakrishnan. The biggest questions would be when the 42-billion-pound ($51 billion) UK bank decides to pounce – and whether its relatively new CEO,

Barclays analyst Brendan Lynch has believed that data center multiples were vulnerable to any shift in narrative around artificial intelligence

Sarah Coles, head of Personal Finance at investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “If you were to pay in £300 a month from the age of 25, with 5% growth, you’d be a millionaire by the age of 70.. With the same maths, you could be a millionaire by 70 if you started at age 20 and saved just £184 into an ISA.

The high street bank has shared a guide online, warning that the highly coveted status of being an ISA millionaire belongs to just a few thousand people in the UK

Ahead of the start of a busy 2025 cricket schedule, Barclays is today unveiled as the brand-new principal partner of MCC and Lord’s. From unmissable experiences for fans to support for young people in the community, Barclays continues to create unparalleled opportunities through the UK’s most loved sports – football, tennis and now, cricket.

UK banking giants are paying an average of just 1.42 percent on their easy access accounts - far below the market average of 2.9 percent