Barclays Bank

Barclays.co.uk

The barclays.co.uk homepage offers three banking routes: Personal Banking, Business Banking, Premier Banking The Personal Banking section offers Current accounts, Insurance, Loans, Mortgages, Savings and Investments, and Credit Cards In the Business Banking section you have 3 options: Services for companies with a turnover of less than £1m, or a Turnover of £1m to £20m, or a Turnover above £20m. Each option has suited services with advice on how to run you business, to opening a bank account. It also provides an Information Centre containing reports and valuble information to the finances of your company. Finally, the Premier Banking section is designed to offer you a more personalised approach to your banking and a better service, with first-class products. The products are as follows:

• Bank Accounts

Barclays has a massive range of competitive current and savings account Current Accounts:

Barclays Bank Account
Student Bank Account
Graduate Bank Account
Children's accounts
First Additions
Additions
Additions Plus

To apply for any of the above you will need to follow and complete these steps:

1 - Getting Started
2 - Your Personal Details
3 - Your Work and Finances
4 - Your New Account
5 - Your Account Confirmation Accounts with extras

• Car Insurance

You can either ask for a Fully Comprehensive Quote or a Third Party Fire and Theft Quote. The process is as follows:

1 - Personal details
2 - Your Cover
3 - Your Car
4 - Your Quote
5 - Your Application
6 - Payment
7 - Confirmation

• Home Insurance

There are three types you can apply for: Buildings and Contents, Buildings Only, and Contents Only
You will need to follow the steps below for each one of these:

1 - Personal details
2 - Your Cover
3 - Your Quote
4 - Your Application
5 - Payment
6 - Confirmation

• Travel Insurance

There are two types available: Single Trip Cover and Annual Multi-Trip Cover for which you will need to follow the below process:

1 - Your Trip
2 - Your Quote
3 - Your Application
4 - Payment
5 - Confirmation

• Health Cover

There are four types of cover available: Personal Accident Plan, Accidental Death Plan, Hospital Cash Plan, Everyday Health Cash Plan.

You will need to follow the below process for any of these:

1 - Your Quote
2 - Your Personal Details
3 - Your Payment
4 - Confirmation

• Business Insurance

You can either apply for a Self Employed Insurance or a Residential Property Insurance. For both of these you will need to follow these steps:

1 - General Information
2 - Your Business Details
3 - Optional Covers
4 - Statement of Fact
5 - Your Quote
6 - Your Payment
7 - Your Confirmation

• Student Possessions Insurance

There are five steps to your application:

1 - Your Personal Details
2 - Your Quote
3 - Your Personal Details
4 - Your Payment
5 - Confirmation

Website Review

www.barclays.co.uk is a well designed site and very user-friendly. It has tonnes of useful information and makes dealing with your finances a bit less time consuming. We give them a groovy rating of 5 stars.

Barclays History

1690 - John Freame and Thomas Gould start trading as Goldsmith bankers in Lombard Street in the City of London.

1728 - Freame and Gould move to 54 Lombard Street at the sign of the Black Spread Eagle.

1736 - James Barclay, John Freame’s son-in-law, becomes a partner in the business.

1864 - The company builds a new banking house in Lombard Street.

1896 - The company joins with 19 other private banking businesses to form a new joint-stock bank called Barclay and Company Limited. This had 182 branches and substantial deposits of £26million. The partners were connected by a web of family and religious links, and the bank was often referred to as the Quaker Bank.

1905 - The bank expands rapidly around this time. In this year it takes over Bolithos Bank in the South West of England.

1916 - Barclay and Company takes over the United Counties Bank in the Midlands.

1918 - The bank amalgamates with the London, Provincial and South Western Bank to become one of the UK’s ‘big five’ banks. By 1926 the bank has 1,837 outlets.

1925 - Our international operation, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) is formed by the merger of three banks - the Colonial Bank, the Anglo Egyptian Bank and the National Bank of South Africa. This goes on to add business in much of Africa, the Middle East and the West Indies.

1961 - Barclays opens Britain’s first computer centre for banking in Drummond Street, London.

1966 - Barclays launches Barclaycard, the UK’s first credit card.

1967 - Barclays unveils the world’s first cash machine, offering “Barclaycash” from its Enfield branch.

1969 - Barclays acquires Martins Bank which was the largest UK bank to have its head office outside London, in Liverpool.

1972 - Barclaycard is the first UK credit card to use TV advertising.

1977 - Barclays is the first UK bank to introduce Personal Bankers in its UK branches.

1981 - Barclays becomes the first foreign bank to file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and raise long-term capital on the New York market.

1985 - Barclays UK and International are merged to form Barclays PLC.

1986 - Barclays becomes the first British bank to have its shares listed on the Tokyo and New York stock exchanges. The bank’s global expansion is given added impetus by the creation of BZW. This evolved to become Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of the bank, managing larger corporate and institutional business.

1994 - Innovations continue. In this year the telephone banking service Barclaycall is introduced.

1995 - Barclays purchases the fund manager Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisers. The business is integrated with BZW Investment Management to form Barclays Global Investors.

1997 - Online banking begins at Barclays. Customised services are also developing fast with the introduction of Barclays Private Bank and Premier Banking.

2000 - Barclays takes over the Woolwich, a leading mortgage bank and former building society founded in 1847.

2001 - Barclays forms a strategic alliance with Legal & General to sell life, pensions and investment products throughout its UK network.

2003 - Barclays acquires Banco Zaragozano, one of Spain's largest private sector banking groups, which was founded in 1910.

2003 - Barclaycard launches a five year deal card with Manchester United FC.

2005 - Barclays Head Office moves to the iconic Canary Wharf building in London’s regenerated Docklands. Barclays also acquires a majority stake in Absa Group Ltd, South Africa’s largest retail bank with more than eight million customers.

2006 - A benchmark year when 50 per cent of Barclays profits are made outside the UK.

Awards

04 Jul 2007 - Barclays awarded for its Environmental Leadership and Spaces for Sports programme at Business in the Community Awards for Excellence. Barclays was also highly commended for its Ghana microfinance programme and work on employee health in Africa.

03 Jul 2007 - Barclays wins Best Communication of Shareholder Value and sector winner of Banks/Speciality & Other Finance at the IR Magazine Awards for 2006. James Johnson of Barclays is also awarded Best Investor Relations Officer at a FTSE 100 company.

03 Jul 2007 - Barclays Wealth is named Wealth Manager of the Year 2007 at the Global Investor Magazine Awards.

26 Jun 2007 - Mark Harding, Group General Counsel awarded Editor's Award for Outstanding Achievement by The Lawyer Magazine.

21 Jun 2007 - Barclays Capital awarded Clearing Firm of the Year by Euromoney FOW.

26 Apr 2007 - Barclays Capital named Debt Provider of the Year, BVCA Private Equity Awards.

12 Apr 2007 - Barclays Capital awarded "Best Trader" by Point Carbon.

04 Apr 2007 - Barclays has won a prestigious award for its work to combat online fraud.

30 Mar 2007 - Barclays Capital won three awards at Profit & Loss magazine's Annual Digital FX awards.

15 Mar 2007 - Barclays Wealth Managing Director, Head of Middle East, North Africa and Turkey Soha Nashaat wins Middle East 'Woman Banker of the Year 2007.'

30 Jan 2007 - Barclays Capital named Debt Arranger of the Year by Acquisitions Monthly.

30 Jan 2007 - Barclays Capital named MBS Arranger of the Year - Europe by ISR magazine.

16 Jan 2007 - For the second year running, Barclays Capital has been named Inflation Derivatives House of the Year by Risk magazine.

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