Barclays has agreed to pay $2bn in civil penalties to settle claims over the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the financial crisis, the US Department of Justice has said.

Barclays has paid out more than £20m (€27.6m) in shares to its top bosses just weeks after reporting a bottom line loss of nearly £2bn (€2.76bn) for 2017.

Banking giant Barclays has posted a 10% rise in annual profits, but the haul was lower than expected as its investment bank saw earnings dive 22%.

Barclays Bank has agreed a 20-year lease on office space in Dublin city centre.

Financial regulators in Britain are investigating Barclays CEO Jes Staley and the bank over the handling of a whistleblowing incident.

Barclays boss Jes Staley will be probed by Britain's financial watchdog and have his pay docked over governance failings which saw him attempt to identify a whistleblower.

The Central Bank has cut its growth forecast for this year even as the Irish economy has shown “resilience” to the first shockwaves from the UK’s Brexit vote and the drop in the value of sterling against the euro.

Barclays is considering expanding its Dublin offices after Britain leaves the EU, the latest in a string of banks reacting to the expected loss of access to the single market.

Barclays has completed the sale of its Spanish and Portuguese credit card business as the bank charges ahead with asset disposals as part of a company-wide overhaul.

Rory McIlroy is seven shots off the pace heading in to the final round of the Barclays Championship in the States.

Shares in Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank owner RBS, as well as Barclays fell as stock markets responded for the first time to the results of the stress tests of 51 European banks.

Britain's Brexit vote has dealt a hammer blow to heavyweight financial stocks, with some shares being temporarily suspended as the losses stack up.

Banking giant Barclays saw profits tumble by a quarter in the first three months of the year as it was hit by tough trading in its investment banking arm.

The UK’s top banks are set for one of their worst first-quarter earnings seasons since the financial crisis, adding to their struggle to win over investors against a backdrop of misconduct charges, a weak economic outlook and uncertainty over Brexit.

Barclays has waded into the debate over Britain's membership of the European Union, claiming a Brexit would leave customers worse off.

Barclays has been hit with a record £72 million fine after City regulators in England found the bank cut corners to rush through financial crime checks for a £1.88 billion “elephant deal” on behalf of ultra-rich clients.

New Barclays boss Jes Staley could earn up to £8.2m a year, it has been revealed.

Barclays says its systems are 'recovering' from technical issues which stopped some UK customers making payments.

Complaints about Britain’s financial firms rose 8% in the first half of this year after a jump in new cases about packaged bank accounts, the UK industry’s watchdog said yesterday.

Fraudsters had access to the personal details of 30,000 Barclays customers for up to seven years, it has been revealed.

Barclays is reportedly planning to axe more than 30,000 jobs as it speeds up a cost-cutting strategy after firing chief executive Antony Jenkins.

Wall Street’s self-funded watchdog has fined a unit of Barclays $800,000 (€735,000) for violations related to how the bank reported stock trades over a period of more than two years.

The US Supreme Court yesterday allowed Barclays to claim about $4bn (€3.6bn) of disputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ brokerage unit at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Barclays has set aside another £800m (€1.1bn) to cover potential settlements for alleged foreign exchange manipulation, hitting profits and reflecting its struggle to put past problems behind it.

It will take another five years or more to make real inroads into the dominance of Britain’s five biggest banks, a senior Bank of England official said yesterday.

Barclays bank boss Antony Jenkins has accepted his first annual bonus since taking over but a rise in underlying profits was marred by a fresh £750m hit from the foreign exchange (forex) rate-rigging scandal.

Barclays took an additional £750m hit to cover alleged involvement in the foreign exchange rate-rigging scandal as it announced a rise in annual profits today.

Property investor Paddy McKillen claims communications between certain officials of Department of Finance, Nama, and representatives of the Barclay brothers, relating to the sale of his loans by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation were unlawful and improper.