Barclays opened its new campus in Pune, the British bank’s largest single location outside of its global headquarters in London. The new campus is expected to strengthen Barclays’ global network, supporting innovation and ensuring increased integration of operations and technology services in India. Barclays has campuses in Whippany, U.S. and Glasgow, U.K., besides other sites and these campuses facilitate the creation of greater value for the firm’s customers and clients through global connectivity, smarter thinking, and cutting-edge technology. Spread across approximately 1.1 million square feet of building area, the Pune campus will house 9000 of the Barclays’ 19,000 permanent employees based in India, with teams supporting the creation of smarter solutions for the diversified spectrum of consumer and wholesale solutions offered by Barclays globally. It will also play a key role in leveraging the large pool of existing talent in Barclays and co-locating teams to deliver greater value to customers and clients. The campus will be equipped with the latest technology and state-of-the-art working spaces facilitating collaboration, creative thinking and innovation across teams. Barclays’ group COO Mark Ashton-Rigby, said the new campus will help to further unlock India’s potential, reaffirm Barclays commitment towards the government’s Make in India initiative, and promote the UK-India economic partnership. Barclays’ co-CEO for the Global Service Centre in India, Uma Ratnam Krishnan, said the new campus will play a substantial role in realizing the bank’s vision to accelerate the delivery of its strategic priorities and foster greater collaboration and innovation, to empower its staff to deliver excellent customer and client outcomes.
