Barclays today agreed to buy the banking business of insurer Standard Life for £226m (€246m).

Britain's Barclays bank paid millions of pounds in compensation to its credit card boss for reneging on a promised promotion as rumours mount over tensions at the bank’s helm, it was reported today.

Banking group Barclays today entered the Russian retail banking market by agreeing a deal to buy Expobank for US$745m (€490m).

A banker at Barclays netted £22m (€32.5m) in salary, shares and bonuses last year and owns stock in the group worth nearly £65m (€96m), it was revealed today.