48/100BBarclays company profile
- CEO
- Coimbatore Sundararajan Venkatakrishnan
- Employees
- 93,000
- Headquarters
- 1 Churchill Place, London, GL E14 5HP, GB
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Diversified
- IPO date
- 9 Sept 1986
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US06738E2046
Website:home.barclays
About the company
Barclays PLC provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The company operates through Barclays UK; Barclays UK Corporate Bank; Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management; Barclays Investment Bank; and Barclays US Consumer Bank segments. It offers financial services, such as current accounts, savings accounts, mortgages and unsecured lending, such as credit cards and loans retail banking, wholesale banking, investment banking, wealth management, and investment management services, as well as lending products. In addition, the company engages in securities dealing activities and issuing of credit cards. The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank public limited company and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. Barclays PLC was founded in 1690 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Employees
Barclays had about 98,141 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 8.3% fewer than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Barclays
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 8.6% of Barclays's shares on 30 June 2026, 582 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Barclays
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