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Customs and Excise needed to freeze the bank account of a Barclays customer. By law, banks are required to comply with requests for freezing orders and are paid for the service. When it received the request, the bank replied that it would abide. But due to "operator error", the customer proceeded to empty all of the money from the account.
151 Farnham Lane, Slough, was in Mr and Mrs O’Brien’s names jointly.They had a £25,000 mortgage to a building society. Mr Tucker, who worked for Barclays Bank plc, when the mortgage was increased to £60,000 in 1981 made a note that Mrs O’Brien might be a problem.
Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] 1 QB 677, [1979] 3 All ER 522 was a decision of the High Court of Justice relating to the recovery of a payment mistakenly made by a bank after the customer had countermanded the cheque.
The British bank's CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan is under pressure to lift Barclays's shares up after a stormy few years. Barclays Bank is reportedly axing up to 2,000 jobs as part of a $1.25 billion ...
Barclays Bank plc v Quincecare Ltd [1992] 4 All ER 363 is a judicial decision of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in relation to the banker-customer relationship, and in particular in connection with the bank's duties in relation to payment instructions from a customer's agent or purported agent which give rise, or ought to give rise, to a suspicion of fraud.
The Libor scandal was a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Inter-bank Offered Rate) and also the resulting investigation and reaction. Libor is an average interest rate calculated through submissions of interest rates by major banks across the world.
In Barclays Bank DC & O NO v Anderson 1959 2 SA 478 (T), sometimes called Barclays Bank v Anderson, an important case in the South African law of succession, the court said that conditions excluding the jurisdiction of the court are against public policy and are thus invalid.
Barclays plc (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i z /, occasionally /-l eɪ z /) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England.Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services.