Barclays

Former Barclays boss Jes Staley has been banned from the U.K. financial services industry after "recklessly" misleading regulators and the bank about his relationship with the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UBS Group AG poached nearly a dozen of the firm's top technology bankers, while others have left for Pickering Energy Partners and Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

C.S. Venkatakrishnan, the chief executive of Barclays, has a form of lymphoma and will undergo treatment for several months.

The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority plans to fine Barclays Plc £50 million ($55.8 million) for failing to disclose arrangements with Qatar during the bank's capital-raising in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis.

As Mastercard Installments nears launch, the card network is lining up tech partners to connect issuers to its buy now/pay later ecosystem.

The M&A surge promises to improve the services fintechs offer to many banks. But it's also creating a new class of full-service competitors.

The bank has agreed to act as a payment agent for the card brand's Track BPS to sign up participating businesses in the U.K. and Europe.

Barclays US, which offers a range of cobranded credit cards targeting middle-income consumers, is adding a buy now/pay later option for its merchant partners.

The nine-year-old service predates the payments-oriented fintechs that have become popular in recent years.

Gap and Synchrony Financial are parting ways after they couldn’t reach an agreement to renew their longstanding card partnership.