Business and Professional Services

As the first UK bank to offer a dedicated BPO team, we’re focused on helping you contract out key business operations and responsibilities with complete confidence.

We can guide your business across all its BPO opportunities, helping you optimise cost efficiency and business flexibility – without sacrificing control.

Benefit from:

• Working relationships with many of the UK’s largest outsourcing companies
• Dedicated Relationship Director and specialist support team
• Full financing solutions including cash management, liquidity management and risk solutions.
  

We were the first UK bank to offer a dedicated facilities management team.

Today, we help businesses of any scale realise safe, efficient high-performing working environments – which, in turn, can contribute to better business performance.

Benefit from:

• Dedicated Relationship Director and specialist support team
• Full financing solutions including cash management, liquidity management risk solutions, trade solutions and working capital
  
• Regular networking opportunities and industry events.

We were the first UK bank to specialise in meeting the specific financing and banking needs of the recruitment and executive search business.

From our sponsorship activities to our close working relationships with trade bodies, we are committed to being a supportive bank for the UK recruitment industry.

Benefit from:

• A dedicated Relationship Director and support team with in-depth knowledge of your sector
  
• Full financing solutions including cash management, liquidity management, risk solutions, trade solutions and working capital
• Regular networking opportunities and industry events.
  

As the first UK bank to offer a dedicated technical services team, we’re focused on helping you contract out key business operations and responsibilities with complete confidence. 

We can guide your business across all its BPO opportunities, helping you optimise cost efficiency and business flexibility –  without sacrificing control.

Benefit from:

• Working relationships with many of the UK’s largest outsourcing companies
• Dedicated Relationship Director and specialist support team
• Full financing solutions including cash management, liquidity management and risk solutions.
  

Faced with changing regulation and new business structures, the banking and finance needs of legal firms have become more complex and wide ranging.

As the chosen banking partner of more than half of the top 100 UK law firms, we can offer deep understanding of your business requirements. Our Relationship Directors are trained in Solicitors’ Account Rules and can work with you to shape financial solutions to support your firm’s ambitions.

With our growing presence in the US and Europe, we can support you internationally too. Several of the top 20 global law firms have a relationship with us.

Benefit from:

• A flexible range of medium to long-term finance products – including cash management and liquidity management, client monies management, foreign exchange, term loans and trade and working capital solutions
  
• Solutions to meet the specific needs of legal firms including partner capital subscription loans, flexible client premium accounts and professional indemnity insurance premium financing
• In-depth analysis of Legal trends from our in-house research team
• Regular networking opportunities and industry events.

For over 15 years, we have provided dedicated corporate banking services to the accountancy sector. Today, we have relationship with the majority of top 20 UK accountancy firms.

Alongside financing, cash management and risk management solutions, we can provide a range of services to meet your business’s specific needs. These include partner capital subscription loans, integrated funds solutions and flexible client premium accounts.

Benefit from:

• Our knowledge from working with many top 20 accountancy firms
• Regular networking opportunities and industry events
• In-depth analysis of accountancy trends from our in-house research team
  
• Comprehensive banking and financing solutions, including cash management and liquidity management, client monies management, term loans, trade and working capital solutions and FX management.
  

We work closely with leading UK and international property consultants, architects and surveyors – including many of the top 20 UK property services businesses.

Through a growing presence in the US and Europe, our Relationship Directors can support both your domestic and international corporate banking needs. Bespoke medium and long-term finance from across the Barclays group can support your plans for growth.

Benefit from:

• In-depth analysis of property services trends from our in-house research team
• Comprehensive banking and financing solutions from across Barclays, including bonds and guarantees, FX management, letters of credit, risk solutions and trade and working capital solutions
  
• Products particularly suited to the property consultants sector, such as partner capital raising.

With over 30 years’ experience of working with both leading and smaller insolvency practitioner firms, our specialist team understands the unique requirements of your industry.

By working closely with our partners across Barclays, we can provide banking, financing and treasury management solutions precisely tailored to your business’s needs.

Benefit from:

• Access to a range of services from across the Barclays group
• In-depth analysis of insolvency practitioner trends from our in-house research team
• A full range of corporate and turnaround services, including cash management and liquidity management and FX management.
  

Supported by deep pensions experience, our Pension Administration team offers a full understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing your sector.

We are dedicated to meeting your business’s day-to-day banking and longer-term financial needs. Plus, we offer a range of services to support corporate pension plans, such as automated account opening, leading-edge cash accounts and back office client system integration.

Benefit from:

• In-depth pensions experience and knowledge from a team that only looks after clients in this sector
• Valuable industry contacts, regular networking opportunities and industry events
• Comprehensive banking solutions and services to meet the needs of pension administrators and corporate pension plans
• Bespoke financing solutions drawn from across Barclays.