Barclays provides a range of financial products and services to UK, US and European defence companies that supply NATO.  As NATO, the EU and UK seek to urgently increase their defence capabilities in response to increasing geopolitical threats, the provision of financial products and services to the defence sector is becoming increasingly important. 

Barclays does not directly invest in these companies.​

The defence sector is fundamental to our national security and decisions on the implementation of arms embargos to other nations are the job of respective elected governments.