Reservists manage their Armed Forces careers alongside their civilian lives, giving up their spare time to serve. We asked Will Blair, who works in Corporate Communications at Barclays, why he became a Reservist and his advice to anyone thinking of joining.

Wed, 07/26/2017 - 08:55

Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Trish Walsh has been appointed to the board of directors of the Partnership for After School Education (PASE). PASE is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality afterschool programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities.

Tue, 06/27/2017 - 14:00

Wed, 07/19/2017 - 09:40

Using examples from pioneering companies around the globe and with a foreword from Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, “Insuring Shared Value: How Insurers Gain Competitive Advantage by Better Addressing Society’s Needs” makes the case for insurers to pursue shared value.

Tue, 06/27/2017 - 07:00

“Culture is more important than spend,” says Ashok Vaswani, CEO of Barclays UK. “Ultimately, people who are excited by technology want permission to do things. If you can give them that permission, that’s when exciting things happen. And who has that authority? It has to start at the top. The role of senior management is to make sure that folks like me don’t hold them up or create trouble for them. My job is to make sure that people get out of the way.”

Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:30

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.

Wed, 07/05/2017 - 09:20

The Texas Diversity Council is proud to announce the 2017 Greater Dallas Healthcare Diversity Summit that will be held July 11, 2017. The event will be hosted by long-time corporate partner, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, for the 5th consecutive year.

Tue, 06/27/2017 - 12:00

Barclays continues its commitment to the renewable energy sector with a refinancing package of £47m for Tirgwynt onshore wind farm in mid-Wales.

Wed, 06/28/2017 - 09:05

Two women from two different backgrounds – one from a rural town in Eurasian Georgia and the other from urban Barcelona – both shared something in common growing up: a lack of access to scientific research labs. Now thanks to the Amgen Scholars Program (ASP), both are breaking the mold to become role models for budding female scientists around the world.

Thu, 07/06/2017 - 10:45

This summer, 1,100 student interns will be living, studying, and working on the sprawling campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, just north of Washington, D.C. Among them will be five Amgen Scholar alumni who will serve as mentors to some of the high school student interns in a unique pilot program to teach scientists how to be educators.

Wed, 06/28/2017 - 10:40