Barclays PLC is a British multinational bank and money related administrations organization headquartered in London. It is a universal bank with global reach, offering products as well as services across over individual, corporate as well as investment banking, credit cards as well as wealth management. It has operations in more than 40 nations and utilizes roughly 120,000 individuals. Barclays is sorted out into four center organizations: Personal and Corporate (Personal Banking, Corporate Banking, Wealth and Investment Management), Barclaycard, Investment Banking and Africa.

Barclays follows its starting points to a goldsmith managing an account business built up in the City of London in 1690. James Barclay turned into an accomplice in the business in 1736. In 1896 a few banks in London and the English regions, including Backhouse's Bank and Gurney's Bank, joined as a joint-stock bank under the name Barclays and Co.

Over the next decades Barclays extended to end up plainly an across the country bank. In 1967, Barclays conveyed the world's initially money distributor. Barclays has made various corporate acquisitions, including of London, Provincial and South Western Bank in 1918, British Linen Bank in 1919, Mercantile Credit in 1975, the Woolwich in 2000 and the North American operations of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Barclays head office

For over 300 years the Barclays head office, originally known as a ‘shop’, has been situated in Lombard Street in the City of London, which had been linked with the world of finance for several centuries.

Bank notes

Bank notes are promissory notes issued by a bank as well as payable to bearer on demand, but unlike promissory notes they may be reissued after payment.

Connect card

Barclays Connect had been launched on 3 June 1987, the first debit card in the UK. The project took less than 2 years from its initial conception to national launch.

Barclaycard

Launched on 29 June in the year 1966 Barclaycard was the first all-purpose credit card scheme to be operated by a British bank.