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The cost of building out the infrastructure needed to satisfy booming demand for artificial intelligence is changing the way major companies allocate resources. That can mean an end to some jobs once done by humans. Yet in many cases it means repurposing money once spent on workers so that more capital can be devoted to…

Roughly 60% of the reductions are expected in “support functions,” including developers, as AI bolsters productivity, the bank said.

Equating to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff, job cuts come as bank announces jump in quarterly profits

Barclays is cutting around 5,000 staff this year as it introduces more artificial intelligence (AI) into its processes.

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Barclays recently drew regulatory scrutiny after a complaint to the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority about how traders classified derivatives tied to illiquid private credit loans, and it also appointed Sonali Sharma as managing director and head of legal in India with responsibility for regulatory and government relations.

Concerns financial contracts known as derivatives were incorrectly logged, potentially boosting Barclays’ profits

Bank of America is expanding its apprenticeship program at a time of year when it typically would raise the hourly wage for its lowest-paid staff. Meanwhile, Barclays conceded (partially) on RTO.

Add preferred source Barclays Capital’s head of U.S. rates research, Anshul Pradhan, warns that the U.S. 30-year Treasury yield could climb to 6%, arguing that the current bond market selloff has yet to fully price in the risk of sustained productivity acceleration driven by AI investment. He contends that the market still treats the elevated…

Thousands of Barclays staff are demanding concessions from the bank after it said it wants employees to work from the office more often.