Barclays (NYSE:BCS) (NYSE: BCS) is a diversified financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1690, it has developed from a London-based banking business into an international group serving individuals, businesses, institutions and governments.
Barclays’ principal activities include consumer and business banking, residential mortgages, savings and lending products, credit cards, payments, and wealth management. Through its investment banking operations, the company provides corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions advice, equity and debt underwriting, markets services, research, risk management and other advisory services to corporate, institutional and government clients.
The company serves customers primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States, while its corporate, investment banking and markets activities operate across major financial centers worldwide. Barclays organizes its business around UK banking, private banking and wealth management, investment banking, and U.S. consumer banking and related international operations.
