Barclays to implement 72-hour cool-off period on gambling spending

Customers of Barclays, one of the UK’s largest banks, will have to wait 72 hours as a cooling-off period once they switch off their spending on gambling.   The feature is meant to help customers control their spending. Reportedly, the feature was used 187,000 times since the pandemic lockdown started.    The option to block gambling was implemented in December 2018 and was used more than half a million times. According t...