Description
Barclays is a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank, and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. The company has a strategic plan to improve its operational and financial performance and shareholder returns by becoming 'Simpler, Better and More balanced' over the coming years. Barclays also provides research and thought leadership through its Investment Bank, covering topics such as global economic outlook, tokenisation, and physical AI/robotics. The bank has a stated ambition to be net zero by 2050, focusing on reducing financed emissions and financing the climate transition, and also provides financial services to sectors such as defence. Its client base spans retail consumers, corporates, and institutional/investment banking clients.