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  "id": 16021755,
  "title": "Barclays bank to cut about 5,000 jobs amid AI drive",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/barclays-bank-to-cut-about-5-000-jobs-amid-ai-drive",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-22T09:02:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40445446/barclays-bank-to-cut-about-5000-jobs-amid-ai-drive"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "LONDON: British bank Barclays announced Thursday plans to cut around 5,000 jobs, or roughly five percent 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 percent in the third quarter. Barclays upgrades Pakistan sovereign debt to ‘overweight’: Bloomberg Barclays said it was…",
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        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "Barclays bank to cut about 5,000 jobs amid AI drive",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/barclays-bank-to-cut-about-5-000-jobs-amid-ai-drive-16029865",
        "published": "2026-10-22T10:40:51.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Finextra",
        "title": "Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs amid AI expansion",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/barclays-to-cut-5-000-jobs-amid-ai-expansion",
        "published": "2026-10-22T11:36:51.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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