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Completion of the acquisition of Tesco's retail banking business and commencement of long-term strategic partnership with Tesco

Barclays Bank UK PLC has successfully completed the acquisition of the retail banking business of Tesco Personal Finance plc.

 

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General Motors and Barclays sign long-term credit card partnership agreement

North America’s largest automaker is joining forces with Barclays to build loyalty and engagement with millions of GM customers .

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January’s Spend Trends: Streaming, takeaways and wellness enjoying early year boost 

Essential spending returned to growth, as 2025 got off to a stormy start. The key trends of January analysed…

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Q4 Spend Trends: Looking back at the Golden Quarter

Karen Johnson, Head of Retail at Barclays, looks back at the spend trends that defined the final months of 2024 and sheds light on Q4’s mixed picture…

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Business attitudes to investing: How to unlock a growth mindset in the UK

Our latest research explores the drivers behind business attitude to investing and assess what could be holding UK businesses back.

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In the Field: Sustainable Ventures

What is next for the UK’s climate tech ecosystem? Andrew Wordsworth, CEO and co-founder of Sustainable Ventures, shares how his business is scaling to meet the needs of a burgeoning sector and gives his 2025 outlook.

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In the Field: GeoPura

Barclays’ Steven Poulter gets a taste of GeoPura’s success on a visit to their Hydrogen Power Unit production facility in Newcastle, as their CEO, Andrew Cunningham, shares his outlook on the UK’s hydrogen sector and the power of partnerships.

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Boosting the energy efficiency of UK homes

UK homes account for 15% of all national carbon emissions. Barclays sets out five recommendations to help the Government address the structural and behavioural challenges hindering efforts to accelerate progress in making homes more energy efficient.

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View thought-leading highlights by our market experts and analysts from across Barclays Investment Bank.

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AI revolution: Meeting massive AI infrastructure demands

With AI adoption picking up pace, Barclays Research examines new, urgent questions about the technology’s massive infrastructure demands, and how the public and private sectors might work together to deliver AI responsibly and sustainably.

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M&A extends its reach in 2025

Following a period of subdued M&A activity, our M&A team expect deal volumes to increase in 2025 powered by three trends across markets, borders and structures.

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3 themes powering global macro strategy in 2025

Kristen Macleod, Global Head of Macro Distribution, explores the key themes macro investors should consider across global rates, emerging markets and FX in 2025.

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About Barclays

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Our Strategy

We have a clear plan to improve our operational and financial performance, and improve total shareholder returns. To do so, over the next three years we will make Barclays Simpler, Better and More balanced.

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Our Structure

We are 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.

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Addressing climate change

We have a clear strategy to meet our ambition to be a net zero bank by 2050: by achieving net zero operations, reducing our financed emissions and financing the transition.

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Setting the record straight on Barclays links to the defence sector

To address some of the concerns around our involvement with the defence sector, we’re sharing the facts on what Barclays believes and stands for.

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