Access to financial and digital empowerment

We will improve access to financial services, including developing targeted products and services for individuals and small businesses. We will also provide digital and financial literacy skills training to help empower our customers.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Barclays HeForShe Ambassador Srishti Warman on Promoting Gender Equality in India
On International Women’s Day, we talk to Barclays Business Analyst Srishti Warman about her work promoting gender equality in India – and how her commitment to “making a difference” began as a child.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Barclays Uses Inclusive Financial Systems to Promote Economic and Social Progress
In 2017 Barclays helped empower 205,180 people through a range of financial and digital skills initiatives.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Making the Midlands the Heartbeat of the UK Economy
New research from Barclays has found that the Midlands is one of the most cost effective regions for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK to start. The Barclays Midlands Growth Fund is targeted at these SMEs and is designed to boost jobs and economic growth. The five-year initiative will work in tandem with the UK Government’s own £250m Midlands Engine Investment Fund.

Education

Barclays Partners With Northern Powerhouse to Address the Skills Attainment Gap
A Barclays colleague, who had joined the organisation as an apprentice, took centre stage in promoting private sector efforts to close the education and skills gap between north and south this week.

Innovation & Technology

Digital Empowerment | Barclays Helps Morty Launch Easy Mortgage App
It started with a realisation. A mortgage is the biggest transaction of any person’s life, and no one was helping buyers to shop around. It’s madness. So we set about building a platform that empowers the user – and gets them the best possible deal.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Growth: Barclays Launches New Range of Green Finance Products
Barclays has become the first UK bank to launch a range of green finance products to help its corporate clients fund low-carbon projects and investments.

Innovation & Technology

Barclays’ Annual Technology and Futures Conference: The Age of Connection
Hundreds of decision-makers and innovators from the finance and technology sectors and beyond have gathered in London for the Barclays New Frontiers conference to consider what Barclays Group CEO Jes Staley called “the new age of connection”.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Barclays Supports Living Wage Week: "I’ve Got So Much More Freedom”
Julia, who came to the UK from Lithuania aged 19, now works as a Barista in the Sacred coffee shop at Barclays head office in Canary Wharf. She earns the London living wage, which at last allows her to pay for the things she needs – and put savings aside. “Before this job I couldn’t even look at my account. Now I can go out with co-workers, and go to watch my favourite bands. I feel like I’ve got so much more freedom.”

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Unreported World: Embarrassed Fraud Victims Sweep a Third of Scams Under the Carpet

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Barclays | In the World: The ‘Digital Eagle’
In the first of our regular stories about Barclays colleagues helping their communities, Digital Eagle Shweta Walia explains why she joined a programme to train 2,100 Marie Curie nurses to use computer tablets, freeing them to spend more time caring for patients with a terminal illness.

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  1. Access to financial and digital empowerment
    We will improve access to financial services, including developing targeted products and services for individuals and small businesses. We will also...

  2. Access to employment
    We will help people gain access to vital skills they need to get into work and support entrepreneurs to scale businesses and create employment...

  3. Access to financing
    We will continue to create access to funding solutions and small business financing. We will also continue to support our Green Bond Treasury...

  4. Entrepreneurs
    There is no other bank like Barclays for the people who create and build businesses; our support for the entrepreneurial community goes beyond funding...