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Barclays Bank plc is a large financial services provider operating worldwide. Listed on the London, New York and Tokyo stock exchanges, Barclays was ranked as 25th largest company by Forbes Global 2000 in 2008, but in 2009, Barclays’ ranking dropped to 77th on the Forbes list after its share prices dropped around 40% supposedly due to a fall in investor confidence. The bank has its headquarters at One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, since 2005 when it moved from its original location on Lombard St in the City of London. Barclays plc deals in commercial banking, investment banking, and investment management.

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  • Facts
  • Founded in 1690, the name ‘Barclays’ arrived in 1736 when the son-in-law of one of the founders, John Barclay, became a partner.
  • The ‘Barclaycard’ was the first credit card to appear in the UK (in 1966), and Barclays opened the UK’s first ATM (Automated Teller Machine) cash machine in Enfield in 1967.
  • Globally, Barclays has more than 4750 branches in more than 50 different countries.
  • Barclays has sponsored the football Premier League since 2004, and the Churchill Cup from 2006.
  • Barclays has stirred up significant controversy over issues such as business dealings with apartheid South Africa and Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe, as well as being accused by the charity War on Want of providing services to known arms dealers and producers of depleted uranium munitions and cluster bombs.

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