Barclays boosts support to UK businesses and consumers with further £45bn lending

C. S. Venkatakrishnan, Group Chief Executive, says lending increase reinforces Barclays’ investment in our home market, the UK. 

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Our news

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Barclays becomes principal partner of Lord’s-based cricket team, London Spirit

This partnership strengthens Barclays’ role across all levels of cricket at Lord’s, from elite competition to grassroots development.

 

 

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Barclays invests in Ubyx to advance digital money connectivity

We have announced a strategic investment in Ubyx Inc., a U.S. based clearing system for digital money including tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins.

Our UK unlocked insights

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Nurturing number confidence: The role of public policy in building number confidence between the generations 

Barclays' new report presents new insights around the ways in which number confidence is spread between the generations. 

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December Property Insights: Improved optimism, remortgaging and stabilising confidence

Jatin Patel, Head of Mortgages, Savings and Insurance at Barclays, analyses proprietary mortgage data alongside consumer research to uncover the key trends shaping the UK housing market defined the final month of 2025. 

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January 2026 marks a new era for the UK’s capital markets      

As the FCA’s new reforms for the UK’s capital markets come into force, Tom Johnson, Global Co-Head of Capital Markets at Barclays, explains why they have the potential to be transformative.

Our Sustainability insights

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The Barclays Climate Tech podcast

The ultimate guide to taking a climate tech company from idea to IPO. Covering topics ranging from securing investment, to hiring the right people and building a secure supply chain, join Barclays’ Daniel Hanna and Steven Poulter as they talk to leading climate tech founders and get the scoop on how they overcame different challenges and scaled their businesses, sharing lessons learnt along the way.

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Empowering local government to accelerate regional decarbonisation 

Sophie Fry, Head of Sustainability Policy Development, explores how providing local government with greater resources, policy coherence, and access to private finance could accelerate regional decarbonisation and drive the UK’s net zero transition.

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We have been thinking about sustainable finance the wrong way. Here is what actually works.

Sustainable finance has focused on global mitigation and trillion-dollar targets but, at COP30, the focus shifted to a more pressing question: how do we finance resilience in specific locations, under real constraints, with structures that work.  Daniel Hanna discusses.

Investment Bank insights

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

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AI gets physical: Innovation meets opportunity

With AI-powered humanoid robots set to transform the workforce, our Research analysts unpack the investment themes driving AI’s next, more physical era.

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150 investor trends to 2035: Navigating polarised outcomes

The 2035 Thematic Roadmap guides investors through the next decade’s investment landscape, analysing how increasingly binary outcomes may affect portfolios.

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The Profile of M&A in 2026

Strategic decisive action defines this M&A cycle; it is not a volume cycle, it’s a conviction cycle. 2026 appears set up for clients to focus on fewer, bigger M&A deals.

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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How Barclays supports the defence sector

With increasing geopolitical threats, the provision of financial services to the defence sector is increasingly important.  Find out more about the work we do.