Talk:Barclays/Archive 1

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Minor Edit - Barclaycard US

Barclays' India credit card issuer, Juniper Bank (still known as 'Juniper Bank, a Member of the Barclays Group'), is a separate entity from the Barclaycard global operation. Juniper Bank has it's own President, CEO, and board. Barclays acquired Juniper Bank in 2003, but day-to-day operations at Juniper are still run by the American management staff. BadMojoDE 00:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)BadMojoDEBadMojoDE 00:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Conflict

How can Barclays be the biggest bank in the world in terms of total assets, when it is the third largest bank in the UK based on assets?

It could have relativley few assets within the United Kingdom, and a great deal of assets outside the United Kingdom Franny-K (talk) 13:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Credit Card history

Have altered statement that Barclaycard was first credit card in the world. Diners Club Card was. Barclays was first in the UK. (3rd Dec. 2005)

Bank Charges

While the statement about this might not be inaccurate, it's potentially misleading - my understanding is that this is a general issue with all UK banks at the moment, not something specific to Barclays? Following the link provided seems to back that up - some stories about Barclays, also lots of stories about other banks.Mrph 00:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

History of Barclays

Added references to the formation in 1965 and sale in 1988 of Barclays Bank of California, a San Francisco-based US affiliate of Barclays Bank PLC., Source: 57th Annual Report of the Superintendent of Banks, State of California, pg 201; 79th Annual Report of the Superintendent of Banks, State of California, page 33.

Added reference to Wachovia Corp in bullet regarding purchase of HomEq Servicing Corp., American Banker, Friday, June 23, 2006, page 1. Pchas 30 June 2006

Just going to file this in case a flamewar starts over the history of Barclays. Recently the bank was involved in a war of words in Brooklyn when it was announced that it had bought naming rights of a new stadium. Several newspapers accused it of being involved in the early days of the slave trade. Here's a letter to the paper from Barclays disputing this. I think the bank is going to be in the news in the coming years due to this project (it's the largest in Brooklyn) so I thought it would be useful to have. It also includes some useful tidbits about the bank's history and the slave trade. Here's the link. Thesilence 22:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Page rename

As the article states the company trades under differenct names that ultimately are owned by Barclays plc.

On the Public limited company page it states that either PLC or plc is acceptable. Looking at other plc companies on WP; plc seems to be the preferred choice. (see BAA plc, Kingfisher plc, Prudential plc etc.)

Therefore I have moved the page to Barclays plc. simonthebold 14:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Should that not depend on how the company styles its corporate name? Barclays refers to itself as "Barclays PLC" not "Barclays plc". --ukexpat 18:20, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issues

Recent edits have inserted text directly copied from Barclays' website:

On Barclays' history: [1]
On Barclay's senior management: [2]

These additions are contrary to Wikipedia's policy which strictly honors copyrights. — ERcheck (talk) 12:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I spoke just now on the phone with Ferguson 1CP, who put this stuff here - they're a press officer for Barclays and didn't realise this would be a conflict of interest. (And hadn't heard of the publicity disaster last week concerning Microsoft.) I suggested they come to this page, introduce themselves and supply info for others to add. (And be sure that releasing text under GFDL - putting it out of actual control - is precisely what they want to do.) So the text should just be reviewed for NPOV and maybe rewritten as needed - David Gerard 16:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for checking it out. — ERcheck (talk) 19:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, they actually called me, in innocent confusion :-) - David Gerard 11:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Intro paragraph / BCS position in marketplace

The article indicates that BCS is the largest in the world by total assets, etc. It also stated it was 3rd largest in the UK. What is the basis for this? Both need citations and the position in the UK needs details. — ERcheck (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

AUTOMATED CASH MACHINE

Quote from Liverpools Museum of Life Web page.

"Martins was at the forefront of banking advances and in 1967 unveiled the first 'automatic cashier' in the north of England, in Church Street, Liverpool. In 1969 Martins Bank, with 700 branches around the country, merged with Barclays Bank Ltd. The splendid banking hall is still used by Barclays to this day.

Replacing the Martins grasshopper with the Barclays Eagle after the 1969 amalgamation of the two banks. Courtesy Barclays Group Archives"

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE DONT ALLOW MULTI-NATIONALS TO TELL YOU DIFFERENT aureisumus@hotmail.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.53.51.133 (talk) 12:09, August 23, 2007 (UTC)

This page has been defaced

My name is Ben Davies and I work in the Media Relations team at Barclays in London. I have noticed that this page has been defaced in an offensive way. I am going to attempt to edit out some of the offensive material, but I will not change any of the factual content. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daviesb1 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC).

Lawsuit

I don't see any reference anywhere on Wikipedia about the lawsuit Barclays settled with holocaust survivors for freezing their assets during World War 2. Anyone suggest where this might go? In fact, there doesn't seem to be any article about the suit filed against Chase, JP Morgan etc. for the same reason... Markleci 01:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Barclays Bank aiding International Credit Card Fraudsters

I am interested to start a discussion on Barclays poor handling of credit card fraud. Namely, allowing Mastercards to be used by fraudsters who intercepted client mail. It seems that despite the card not being activated by clients, cards are being used by fraudsters. Even though payments were not being made for up to six months, cards can still be used by the fraudsters. Even after clients have reported not having the cards, nor any knowledge of the transactions, the cards remain active allowing the fraudsters to carry on.

Barclays appears to have goog client education programmes in place, however internal processes to shut down problems seem non-existent. Plenty of PR on this topic available in the press. Aus911 04:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

logo change

According to Wednesday's New York Times, Barclays is reported to be changing its logo soon; apparently its eagle logo looks uncomfortably like the Nazi eagle. Can we add something about this?

Have a look a this TimesOnline article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article1951558.ece —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.57.6 (talk) 16:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Friends (Quakers)?

Does the history the bank intersect with that of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)? Perhaps there should be some mention. Barclays Official History History of Quakers 71.93.238.220 (talk) 20:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Indeed the Barclay and Gurney families were Quakers. I think the article would benefit from some mention of the roots of the bank. Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 15:51, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Title...?

Is the title supposed to be plc or PLC? Spencer^T♦^C 01:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. WP:NC#Companies JPG-GR (talk) 05:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Barclays plc → Barclays — I can't see a need for the "plc". WP:COMMONNAME: the common name is "Barclays" (or "Barclays bank"). — 87.114.17.201 (talk) 13:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Survey

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Support (nominator). This also improves consistency with HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, other British banks. 87.114.17.201 (talk) 13:54, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

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Controversy

I don't think that the paragraph on Huntingdon is all that relevant to the article, it could surely be summed up in a sentence. This is not the article on HLS and the paragraph clearly contradicts NPOV

Caribbean

There should be a mention of Barclays involvement in the Caribbean. They merged with CIBC in the Caribbean to form the FirstCaribbean International Bank after which Barclays sold their share. Does anyone know their prior history? The Four Deuces (talk) 21:36, 2 November 2009 (UTC)