November VAR breach keeps Barclays in amber zone

- By Lea Mok
- 18 Feb 2026

Barclays’ regulatory value-at-risk model remains on amber status after recording another hypothetical backtesting exception in Q4 2025, leaving the rolling 12-month total at five for the second consecutive half-year. The bank was first downgraded from green status in Q2 2025 following four tariff-driven breaches.

Across the 250 trading days of 2025, the UK bank overshot its regulatory VAR

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