British bank Barclays announced on Thursday plans to cut around 5,000 jobs, or roughly five per cent of its global workforce, by the end of 2026 in an AI efficiency drive.
The announcement came alongside an earnings update that showed Barclays’ net profit grew 13 per cent in the third quarter, fuelled by surging income across its equities division.
Barclays said in an earnings presentation that it was implementing “organisational simplification and technology change efficiency driven by AI”.
“About 60 per cent of the job losses relate to support functions, including fewer developers as AI makes our people more productive,” it added.
The bank’s profit after tax grew to £1.65 billion ($2.2 billion) in the third quarter from £1.46 billion in the July-September period a year earlier.
Barclays chief executive C. S. Venkatakrishnan noted “ongoing momentum of… operational and financial performance” and said the investment bank division “delivered strong equities
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