Q1 2025 Results

We've announced our latest financial results for Q1 2025.

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Barclays partners with Brookfield

Barclays and Brookfield enter into strategic partnership to transform the bank’s payment acceptance business

The Partnership will drive business growth by broadening the range of services offered and enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.

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Barclays scores sport partnership becoming the principal partner of Lord's Cricket Ground

Barclays is unveiled as the new principal partner of MCC, owners of Lord’s Cricket Ground, the Home of Cricket.

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Our UK unlocked insights

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10 years of spend: what can the last decade of consumer spending tell us about the next?

The 'Barclays 10 years of Spend' report analyses insights dating back to 2015, tracking consumer and economic confidence, and proprietary transaction data, revealing the key trends that have defined behaviour and spending patterns over the last decade, and providing an outlook for the years ahead.

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Homeowners have remortgaging on their minds amid drop in interest rates

May’s property market saw growth in rent and mortgage spending slow for the third month in succession.

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Spend growth slows and confidence declines as wet weather impacts May’s economy

‘Streamflation’, ‘shrinkflation’ and interest rates are on consumers’ minds as they tighten belts.

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Our Sustainability insights

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Agritech: supporting the future of farming

UK farming and agriculture stand at a critical juncture, with its commercial viability under pressure. Agritech has the potential to address some of these fundamental challenges if the sector is supported with an enabling policy environment. Barclays sets out three key recommendations the UK government needs to adopt to spearhead Agritech’s development and adoption. 

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Incentivising investment: Driving decarbonisation of SME-occupied premises

Leveraging its broad and deep relationships with UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and commercial landlords, Barclays has identified barriers and enablers to improving energy efficiency in commercial properties and sets out six policy recommendations to the UK Government to drive investment in SME-occupied premises.

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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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Investment Bank insights

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

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Q2 2025 Global Outlook: At a crossroads

Our Research analysts consider the risk of a sharp slowdown across major economies in response to policy uncertainty and increasing trade wars.

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Green shoots of growth: UK infrastructure opportunities

Our Research analysts examine the potential of recent UK government proposals on housebuilding, transport and energy to positively impact economic growth.

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Is there too much hype for AI and the hyperscalers?

DeepSeek upended the AI paradigm. In episode 69 of The Flip Side, our Research analysts debate what this may mean for the hyperscalers’ capex investments.

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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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