scorecardBarclays Is Cutting 3,700 Jobs In A Complete Bank Overhaul
  1. Home
  2. finance
  3. Barclays Is Cutting 3,700 Jobs In A Complete Bank Overhaul

Barclays Is Cutting 3,700 Jobs In A Complete Bank Overhaul

Barclays Is Cutting 3,700 Jobs In A Complete Bank Overhaul
Finance1 min read

barclays

barclays.com

Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins says the firm is to cut 3,700 jobs across the business, claiming the strategic review is focused on its long-term prosperity.

Follow our live blog on the Barclays job cuts

Barclays has announced 3,700 job losses and £1.7bn cost cuts as part of Project Transform, a radical bid to restore the bank's tattered reputation.

In a Strategic Review, the bank says the changes will be an attempt to make a clean break with the past. The review says: "The behaviours which made headlines during the year stemmed from a period of 20 years in banking in which the sector became too aggressive, too focused on the short-term, and too disconnected from the needs of customers and clients, and wider society."

It adds: "Barclays is changing."

Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins said that "Barclays had got things wrong in the past" and that the changes were "to create shareholder value."

READ MORE ARTICLES ON




Advertisement