Progress Update 2024

Our update on the progress we've made in 2024 against our three-year plan.

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JetBlue and Barclays launch Premier credit card packed with premium travel benefits

The JetBlue Premier World Elite Mastercard®, issued by Barclays US Consumer Bank, is designed to unlock incredible value for frequent travelers and everyday spenders.

 

 

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Barclays scores sport partnership becoming the principal partner of Lord's Cricket Ground

Barclays is unveiled as the new principal partner of MCC, owners of Lord’s Cricket Ground, the Home of Cricket.

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Our UK unlocked insights

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Spending Snapshot: Mother’s Day delivers the busiest day of 2025 for the high street

Florists, supermarkets and restaurants enjoyed bumper days as the nation celebrated their mothers

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Saving to investing: Inside the Advice Guidance Boundary Review sprints

The Advice Guidance Boundary Review is in its closing stages, with firms showcasing their approaches. This is the role of the sprints...

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Contactless spending in 2024: Another record year for touch and pay, but don’t ditch the plastic just yet... 

It’s official: Contactless spending is now a way of life for consumers in the UK. 

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Our Sustainability insights

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Incentivising investment: Driving decarbonisation of SME-occupied premises

Leveraging its broad and deep relationships with UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and commercial landlords, Barclays has identified barriers and enablers to improving energy efficiency in commercial properties and sets out six policy recommendations to the UK Government to drive investment in SME-occupied premises.

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In the Field: Sustainable Ventures

What is next for the UK’s climate tech ecosystem? Andrew Wordsworth, CEO and co-founder of Sustainable Ventures, shares how his business is scaling to meet the needs of a burgeoning sector and gives his 2025 outlook.

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In the Field: GeoPura

Barclays’ Steven Poulter gets a taste of GeoPura’s success on a visit to their Hydrogen Power Unit production facility in Newcastle, as their CEO, Andrew Cunningham, shares his outlook on the UK’s hydrogen sector and the power of partnerships.

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Investment Bank insights

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

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Q2 2025 Global Outlook: At a crossroads

Our Research analysts consider the risk of a sharp slowdown across major economies in response to policy uncertainty and increasing trade wars.

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Green shoots of growth: UK infrastructure opportunities

Our Research analysts examine the potential of recent UK government proposals on housebuilding, transport and energy to positively impact economic growth.

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Is there too much hype for AI and the hyperscalers?

DeepSeek upended the AI paradigm. In episode 69 of The Flip Side, our Research analysts debate what this may mean for the hyperscalers’ capex investments.

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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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Setting the record straight on Barclays links to the defence sector

To address some of the concerns around our involvement with the defence sector, we’re sharing the facts on what Barclays believes and stands for.

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