Media
We were the first UK bank to have a dedicated Media team. Over 20 years later, we can offer your business the experience that comes from working with the sector’s leading businesses.
By working with the top five broadcasters, 45% of the top 40 independent TV companies and the majority of the global Marketing Services networks1, we have gained valuable knowledge, experience and contacts that can benefit your business.
45% of independent TV companies have relationships with us.¹
As one of our Media clients, we can also offer you:
- valuable networking opportunities through long-standing relationships with key sector bodies and our series of regular industry seminars
- in-depth analysis of Media trends from our in-house research team2
Our Media expertise
To be more closely aligned to your specific business requirements, our Relationship Directors have dedicated areas of focus, including:
- Television Production – we can lend against broadcast and distribution contracts through TV production finance
- Publishing – numerous publishers bank with us in both B2B or B2C and across the newspaper, magazine and book sub-sectors
- Marketing Services – covering industries from advertising to digital marketing banking, we have relationships with many of the global and independent Marketing Services networks
- Music – we work with clients in the live and recorded sectors, ranging from promoters to collection agencies, labels, publishers and more
- Film – we can finance film production
What we can offer
In addition to our Relationship Directors’ dedicated focus and sector expertise, we offer services from across the Barclays group, including:
Corporate and Acquisition Finance
Contact our Media team
Lorraine Ruckstuhl – Director, Technology, Media and Telecoms
Lorraine has over 20 years’ experience of corporate and investment banking. Before joining the Technology, Media and Telecoms team, she spent five years in Debt Finance at Barclays, arranging and providing acquisition finance and term debt facilities to a variety of corporates.
Before that she spent seven years as a Relationship Director working with large UK- and European-based media clients, which took her regularly to France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
To find out what our Media team can do for your business, email Lorraine or call our dedicated team on 0800 015 4242*
How can we help?
If you are new to Corporate Banking at Barclays, call us on: 0800 015 4242*
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