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22
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5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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The banking group said this is the equivalent of about 5% of all its employees, which totalled around 93,000 globally at the end of 2025.
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which → say → 2025
Some 1,000 of the roles were cut during the first half of 2026, and the remainder are spread out over the second half of the year.
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remainder → cut → year
The majority of the reductions relate to operational and functional roles across the bank.
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majority → relate → bank
Group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan, known within the bank as Venkat, said this was “a result of the investments which we’ve made into technology over a number of years and which we continue to make”.
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we → know → which
This has seen the adoption of AI to make some work processes more efficient, which has meant the bank can employ fewer roles such as developers.
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bank → see → developers
Venkat said the tech investment involved “modernising our platforms and harmonising our systems and having simpler and better processes”.
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investment → say → processes
“That is driving the bulk of the efficiency gains that you’ve seen so far,” he said.
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he → drive → that
“AI has an important role to play and may have a more important role to play in the future.
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AI → have → future
“I’ve often said that it is the icing on the cake – it’s not the cake – because you need to do the infrastructure build to get the benefits of AI.
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you → say → AI
“Where the infrastructure is modern, we’ve been applying it here.”
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we → apply → it
Barclays is coming towards the end of a three-year strategy to boost performance, which has involved major cost-cutting and ramping up technology capabilities.
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which → come → capabilities
In the third quarter, the company made some £200 million worth of “structural cost actions”, part of about £600 million made during the year.
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company → make → year
This is around double what it had been expecting to have achieved earlier in the year.
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it → expect → year
The bulk of the cost cutting came from the UK retail bank, but a proportion was also in its investment bank.
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proportion → come → bank
Barclays said it has a further roughly £300 million worth of savings planned for the final three months of the year.
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it → say → year
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It comes as the banking group reported a pre-tax profit of £2.3 billion for the three months to the end of September, which was 12% higher than the same period a year ago.
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which → read → period
Income from both its UK retail and corporate banks increased, as well as from its wealth management arm and investment bank.
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Income → increase → arm
The financial results come less than a week before Chancellor John Healey delivers his autumn Budget statement, with speculation that he is considering increasing taxes on banks to raise revenues for the Treasury.
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he → come → Treasury
Asked about the speculation, Venkat said he had made his position on bank taxes “very clear”, having previously spoken out about the UK banking sector having a higher tax burden than other countries.
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sector → ask → countries
“We are already a bank which makes a lot of our money outside the UK so this is not a question of a financial hit to us – it’s bearable.
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it → make → us
It’s a question of proportion and it’s a question of market signalling.
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it → ’ → signalling
“But I deeply respect the responsibilities that the Chancellor bares and he has our full support and backing.”
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he → respect → support
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