Barclays PLC is one of Britain's leading banking groups. The activity is organized around three sectors:
- commercial banking: at the end of 2024, owned 224 branches worldwide;
- financing, investment, and market banking: specialized financing (acquisitions, projects, etc.), portfolio management, transactions on the stock, interest, exchange, and raw material markets, stock trading, merger-acquisition consulting, investment capital, etc.;
- credit cards issuing.
At the end of 2024, the group managed GBP 547.5 billion in current deposits and GBP 337.9 billion in current credits.
Income breaks down geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (52%), Europe (10.2%), Americas (32.7%), Asia (4.8%), Africa and Middle East (0.3%).