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“I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts

Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK

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Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following artist protests and cancellations

Numerous artists had pulled out of major UK festivals due to their links to Barclays, who have invested in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel

Metal Hammer

Latitude, Download and Isle of Wight festivals pull Barclays sponsorship

News comes after multiple musicians and comedians pulled out of the event

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Barclays suspends sponsorship of Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight festivals

Move follows protests from bands and fans over the bank providing financial services to defence companies supplying Israel

The Guardian - UK

Hometree partners with Barclays in £250m deal to accelerate green home improvements

Long term loans on offer for solar panels and heat pumps

Evening Standard

Barclays told to review leveraged finance as UK probes industry

It’s the first of many such reviews the regulator is expected to launch into leveraged finance, which has long been the financing method of choice for private equity

Evening Standard

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Multiple bands pull out of Download festival over Barclays’ Israel ties

Acts including Speed, Scowl and Ithaca voice opposition to Barclaycard sponsorship over financial services provided to defence companies

The Guardian - UK

“We will not take part in an event whose sponsor profits from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Pest Control boycott Download festival due to sponsor Barclays investing in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel

Six bands withdraw from Download 2024 in solidarity with the Palestinian people

Metal Hammer

Barclays branches across the country damaged by pro-Palestine activists

The windows of a branch of Barclays in Bristol were completely smashed, with red paint visible on the bank sign

The Independent UK

Palestine activists vandalise Barclays bank buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh

More than 15 branches of Barclays bank across England and Scotland have been vandalised by a campaign group called Palestine Action.

The National (Scotland)

Barclays bank branches across London vandalised by pro-Palestinian protesters in countrywide wave of attacks

Protesters targeted 20 branches including at least five on London on Monday

Evening Standard

Latitude Festival 2024: Which acts are dropping out and why?

Several artists have said they would not be performing because Barclays is sponsoring the event

Evening Standard

Rent and mortgage spending accelerated in May, Barclays finds

Housing costs are likely to remain high for a while longer, a mortgage expert at Barclays said.

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Multi-bank ‘super ATMs’ are being trialled across the UK

They will enable free cash deposits to customers

The Guardian - UK

Falling UK inflation not leading to rise in spending, report finds

May recorded the lowest spending growth since February 2021, Barclays’ snapshot of card activity shows

The Independent UK

Artists pull out of Latitude festival over Barclays sponsorship

Singer CMAT says she asked festival organisers to find another sponsor but it was ‘made clear’ to her that this would not happen

Evening Standard

CMAT pulls out of Latitude Festival in protest against sponsor Barclays

The move follows similar action at Brighton's Great Escape Festival in May, where more than 100 artists pulled out over the bank’s involvement

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The Guardian - UK

‘Fleecing the man off the street’: Car dealers investigated over high interest rates

The FCA is considering opening a compensation scheme for customers after an influx of complaints

Fortune

Banks don’t want to inspect your home office, so they’re forcing hundreds of employees to come in five days a week

Renewed rules for workplace inspections every few years are being blamed for mass return-to-office efforts.

Evening Standard

'Mind-boggling': Mortgage brokers shocked as Barclays ups interest rates but TSB cuts

It comes soon after higher-than-expected inflation appeared to rule out a June interest rate cut from the Bank of England

The Guardian - UK

Musicians and artists boycott UK cultural events over Israel ties

Brighton’s Great Escape is the latest festival to be held to account by performers after a third quit over its Barclays Bank sponsorship

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Stocks Climb with the Dow Jones Industrials and Nasdaq 100 Posting Record Highs

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.34%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.10%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.59%. US stock indexes today are moderately higher, with the Dow Jones Industrials and Nasdaq...

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