Barclays

Some of the key events about Barclays

• 1736

  Founded as a goldsmith banking business in London
• 1783

  Barclays was involved in the slave trade through its founders
• 1896

  Became the first bank to be listed on the London Stock Exchange
• 1918

  Merged with London, Provincial and South Western Bank to become one of the "Big Five" banks in the UK
• 1941

  The bank was implicated in the sale of gold looted by Nazis
• 1967

  Introduced the world's first automated teller machine (ATM)
• 1986

  Became the first UK bank to have its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange
• 1987

  Launched the UK's first debit card
• 2001

  Acquired Woolwich PLC, significantly expanding its mortgage business
• 2008

  Acquired the North American operations of Lehman Brothers, strengthening its investment banking presence
• 2009

  Barclays avoided £500 million in UK taxes through a complex scheme
• 2012

  Launched Pingit, the UK's first person-to-person mobile payments service
• 2012

  The bank was fined £290 million for manipulating the LIBOR interest rate
• 2014

  Barclays was fined £38 million for putting client assets at risk
• 2015

  The bank was fined £72 million for poor handling of financial crime risks
• 2017

  Barclays was charged with fraud over its 2008 Qatar funding arrangements
• 2018

  Became the first UK bank to successfully complete a blockchain-based trade finance deal
• 2018

  The bank was fined $2 billion for mortgage securities fraud during the 2008 financial crisis
• 2019

  Barclays was fined £26 million for poor treatment of customers in financial difficulty
• 2022

  The bank was fined £783,800 for failing to provide accurate transaction data to regulators

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