Barclays is a diversified bank with UK consumer, corporate, wealth and private-banking franchises, a leading investment bank, and a specialist US consumer bank. Its US Consumer Bank offers co-branded, small-business and private-label cards, installment loans, online savings accounts and CDs.
Banking group; the sources describe its divisions and businesses rather than a separately chartered entity named simply Barclays.
The Times reported September 28 that Market Financial Solutions founder Paresh Raja’s legal defence disputes administrators’ allegations of roughly £1.3 billion in misappropriated funds and says Barclays’ freeze of about £145 million in accounts triggered the lender’s collapse. Administrators allege double-pledged property-backed loans; Raja denies wrongdoing. MFS entered administration on February 25, 2026. The competing accounts remain allegations and defence claims, not court findings.
Credit & fraud · Contested court allegations and defence / UK mortgage finance
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