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Barclays PLC
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Type
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Public limited company
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Traded as
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LSE: BARC
NYSE: BCS |
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Industry
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Banking
Financial services |
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Founded
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1690
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Headquarters
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One Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom
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Area served
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Worldwide
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Key people
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Marcus Agius
(Group Chairman)
Robert Diamond
(Group Chief Executive)
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Products
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Retail banking
Commercial banking
Investment banking
Investment management
Private Equity
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Employees
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144,578 (2012)
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Subsidiaries
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Barclays Bank PLC
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Website
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The Barclays Group is based in Canary Wharf.
Barclays PLC) is a global
banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
As of 2010 it was the world's 10th-largest banking and financial services group
and 21st-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine.
It has operations in over 50 countries and territories across Africa, Asia,
Europe, North America and South America and around 48 million customers. As of
30 June 2010 it had total assets of €1.94 trillion, the third-largest of any
bank worldwide (after BNP Paribas and HSBC).
Barclays is a universal bank and is organised within
two business 'clusters': Corporate & Investment Banking and Wealth
Management, and Global Retail Banking. The Corporate & Investment Banking
and Wealth Management cluster comprises three business units: Barclays Capital
(investment banking), Barclays Corporate (commercial banking) and Barclays
Wealth (wealth management). The Global Retail Banking cluster comprises four
business units: Barclaycard (credit card and loan provision), Barclays Africa,
UK Retail Banking and Western Europe Retail Banking.
Barclays' primary listing is on the London Stock
Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market
capitalisation of approximately £21.8 billion as of 23 December 2011, making it
the 22nd-largest company on the London Stock Exchange. Barclays has a secondary
listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
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