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Barclays plc ( / ˈbɑːrkliz /, occasionally /- leɪz /) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. [4]
In August 2000, Barclays took over Woolwich PLC in a £5.4bn acquisition. Woolwich PLC thus joined the Barclays Bank Group of companies. The Woolwich brand-name was retained after the acquisition, and the Woolwich head office remained in Bexleyheath, south-east London, 4.5 mi from the original office in Woolwich.
Gibraltar Trust Bank - est. 1987 as a joint venture with Credit Suisse. In 1991 Credit Suisse wholly acquired Gibraltar Trust, which is now Credit Suisse (Gibraltar) Barclays Bank PLC; The Anglo-Egyptian Bank (later Barclays) opened a branch in Gibraltar in 1888, and withdrew from the Rock in 2015. Lloyds, closed in late 2019.
UK banking brands owned by foreign banks. Allied Irish Bank (GB) and First Trust Bank, owned by AIB Group of the Republic of Ireland. Al Rayan Bank, owned by Masraf Al Rayan of Qatar. Axis Bank UK, owned by Axis Bank of India. Bank of Ceylon (UK), owned by Bank of Ceylon of Sri Lanka.
Butterfield Bank (Jersey) Limited. Citibank N.A., Jersey Branch. Citicorp Banking Corporation. The Co-operative Bank. Deutsche Bank International. EFG Private Bank (Channel Islands) Limited, Jersey Branch. HSBC Bank Plc, Jersey Branch. Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited, Jersey Branch. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Jersey Branch.
Barclays launched Barclaycard on 29 June 1966, initially as a charge card, [2] but following Bank of England agreement to the offering of revolving credit, it became the first credit card in the United Kingdom on 8 November 1967. [2] It enjoyed a monopoly of the credit card market in the United Kingdom until the introduction of the Access Card ...
One Churchill Place. / 51.505500°N 0.014000°W / 51.505500; -0.014000. One Churchill Place is a 156 m tall skyscraper with 32 floors, serving as the headquarters of Barclays Bank. It is in the Docklands area of London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Canary Wharf. The building is the 13th-tallest office block in the United Kingdom and the ...
CEO, Barclays. Term. November 2021-. Predecessor. Jes Staley. Coimbatore Sundararajan Venkatakrishnan, also known as Venkat, is an American banker. He replaced Jes Staley as the group chief executive (CEO) of the British multinational bank Barclays in November 2021. [1] [2]