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Q1 2026 Results

Barclays announced its Q1 2026 Results on Tuesday 28 April.

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Our Sustainability insights

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In the Field: Mixergy at Hampton Court Palace

Historic buildings have limited retrofit options, as energy efficiency upgrades must be delivered without altering protected features. In this episode, Hampton Court Palace shows how they are working Mixergy to decarbonise their hot water supply.

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Investing in the energy transition in a fragmented world

As geopolitical fragmentation intensifies, energy investment is increasingly focused on resilience. Barclays’ report ‘Transition Realism: Financing Energy Systems’ explores this shift and its intersection with the energy transition.

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Unlocking regional strengths to reinforce the UK’s climate tech leadership

Barclays calls on government to support regional climate tech clusters with better access to capital, accelerators and AI capability - turning regional strengths into national growth engines.

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Our UK unlocked insights

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One city, £1bn impact: Barclays data shows how Harry Styles’ Wembley residency is reshaping live music economics

As new Barclays data shows Harry Styles’ 12-night Wembley residency is set to drive over £1bn in consumer spending, Rich Robinson, Head of Hospitality and Leisure at Barclays, explores the findings.

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April Property Insights: Renters’ rights reshape the housing market as homeowners weigh up bricks and mortar investment

Jatin Patel, Head of Mortgages, Savings and Insurance at Barclays, analyses the key trends shaping the UK housing market.

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National Numeracy Day: building financial confidence starts with confidence in numbers

Kirstie Mackey, Managing Director, Citizenship UK & Europe at Barclays, writes on the importance of National Numeracy Day.

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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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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.

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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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Robots roll out, economies rewire

Innovation and investment in physical AI is growing. Barclays Research explores how humanoid robots could transform economic models, create new sources of wealth and boost productivity.

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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.

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Our IB Insights hub

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How Barclays supports the defence sector

SUSTAINABILITY

As NATO, the EU and UK seek to increase their defence capabilities in response to increasing geopolitical threats, the provision of financial products and services to the defence sector is becoming increasingly important. Barclays provides a range of financial products and services to UK, US and European defence companies that supply NATO and its allies.

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Industry Collaboration

Barclays is a member of the Defence & Economic Growth Taskforce which was created in April 2025 by the Confederation of British Industry, with knowledge partners Oliver Wyman, and with support from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, and Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey.  The role of the Taskforce is to identify opportunities to drive UK growth and productivity through supporting UK Defence capability and production.

CBI Taskforce website

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The services we provide

Through our Investment Bank, UK Corporate Bank and Business Bank we offer services to a range of industries, including the defence sector.
Visit these pages to find out more about the general services we provide to our corporate and business clients.
Barclays Investment Bank
Barclays UK Corporate Bank
Barclays Business Bank

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Military & Veterans Outreach

Barclays supports serving personnel, veterans, reservists and the wider armed forces community across the UK and US, through its Military & Veterans Outreach (MVO).

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We’ve always had close ties with the Armed Forces and in 2010 we began our journey with Barclays Military and Veterans Outreach.
It started with Barclays AFTER, which provides outreach activities and employment opportunities.
It’s supported thousands of service personnel and veterans, with hundreds employed by Barclays.  We’ve also committed millions of pounds in employability grants to help vulnerable veterans.
Then, in 2013, we signed the armed forces covenant and launched our dedicated Armed Forces Banking initiative, which grew to a range of bespoke products and services which included a dedicated support team for those serving, veterans and their families.
We’ve also deployed our Barclays Van to military bases across the UK. This allows our branch colleagues to conveniently offer face-to-face banking and financial wellbeing services to those who live and serve there.
In 2015, we founded the VETS programme to help veterans – regardless of rank, service, or circumstance – find the right job with the power of mentoring.
Then in 2019, we launched our spousal support programme to support military partners too.
Also in 2019, we expanded to our other home market, the US, where we’ve been honoured with the Secretary of Defence Freedom Award in recognition of our support to miliary colleagues.
A decade on, we updated our Armed Forces Covenant pledge and introduced voluntary self-identification for veterans, reservists and partners to ensure we continue to serve those who have served us.
Our ongoing commitment to supporting the Armed Forces community has earned us a gold award from the MoD’s Employer Recognition Scheme. Not once, not twice, but three times.
To find out more, visit home.barclays/mvo

Our MVO hubsite

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Further information

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Barclays' position on the anti-defence movement

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Guardian article from Barclays Group CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan

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Defence and Security Sector Statement

Defence & Security Statement (PDF, 134KB)

Some images on this page are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 - UK MOD © Crown copyright 2023

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Sustainability insights

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Our expert views, analysis and thought leadership on sustainability and the transition to net zero

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Latest insights

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In the Field: Mixergy at Hampton Court Palace

Historic buildings have limited retrofit options, as energy efficiency upgrades must be delivered without altering protected features. In this episode, Hampton Court Palace shows how they are working Mixergy to decarbonise their hot water supply.

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Investing in the energy transition in a fragmented world

As geopolitical fragmentation intensifies, energy investment is increasingly focused on resilience. Barclays’ report ‘Transition Realism: Financing Energy Systems’ explores this shift and its intersection with the energy transition.

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Unlocking regional strengths to reinforce the UK’s climate tech leadership

Barclays calls on government to support regional climate tech clusters with better access to capital, accelerators and AI capability - turning regional strengths into national growth engines.

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What are the investment opportunities in the next phase of the energy transition?

Barclays’ latest report ‘Transition Realism: Financing Energy Systems That Work’ found that investment opportunities are shifting towards system bottlenecks with durable returns. Read on to find out what these are.

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Accelerating deployment of carbon capture and storage

The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Financial Services Task Force, recognises the important role that carbon, capture and storage (CCS) could play in the energy transition, and has produced a report that reviews the current state of financing in the sector and makes a series of recommendations that could help unlock the sector’s potential.

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In the Field: Eagle Labs Farm, the University of Lincoln

Innovation in action. Prof Simon Pearson MBE, University of Lincoln, outlines how Barclays Eagle Lab Farm at the University of Lincoln is empowering sustainable innovation in UK agriculture.

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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.

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In the Field: Agricarbon

What gets measured, gets done. Annie Leeson, CEO and co-founder of Agricarbon, outlines how accurate carbon measurement of soils can unlock commercial opportunity for farmers, sequester carbon emissions and improve soil quality.

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From data gaps to action: Integrating nature into financial risk management

Marie Freier shares Barclays’ learnings from assessing nature-related risk using the TNFD LEAP framework, highlighting the need for cross-industry action to drive progress.

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From interest to action: making sustainability grants work for SMEs

Barclays’ latest policy note harnesses new survey data to explore how the UK’s SMEs fund sustainability projects and makes recommendations to support the sector’s access to grants and funding.

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Catalysing capital and collaboration in the UK bioeconomy

Realising the growth potential of the UK bioeconomy will require addressing challenges around commercialisation, funding and regulation.

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On the quest for energy resilience, catalytic partnerships can help climate tech’s growth potential

The UK can become the premier global ecosystem for climate tech start-ups and scale-ups as they look to develop and bring their ideas to market, given its historic strengths in R&D, entrepreneurship, finance, and policy leadership. The sector is still in a nascent phase but has high growth potential.

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Reflections on the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy

The UK Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy called out clean energy as a high-growth potential sector acknowledging that high energy prices are a drag on the economy, and proposed a stronger role for public finance institutions in unlocking growth. Daniel Hanna, Group Head of Sustainable & Transition Finance, shares his reflections on the strategy.

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In the Field: The AELTC and Naked Energy

In the latest instalment of our ‘In the Field’ series, Steven Poulter visits the All England Lawn Tennis Club to see the impact of their new innovative solar thermal technology, supplied by Naked Energy. We're proud to have connected our corporate banking client, Wimbledon, with Naked Energy, a leading member of our climate tech ecosystem.

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Scaling UK climate tech: the catalytic impact of Barclays Climate Ventures’ investment

The UK is well placed to capitalise on the climate tech sector’s potential to deliver sustainable economic growth and create jobs at scale across the UK. The Barclays Climate Ventures 2024 impact report reveals the portfolio’s catalytic impact on climate tech companies, helping to address a systemic growth-stage financing gap by mobilising £508m of investment since 2020.

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Agritech: supporting the future of farming

UK farming and agriculture stand at a critical juncture, with its commercial viability under pressure. Agritech has the potential to address some of these fundamental challenges if the sector is supported with an enabling policy environment. Barclays sets out three key recommendations the UK government needs to adopt to spearhead Agritech’s development and adoption.

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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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COP29: Reflections from ‘The Finance COP’

COP29 saw developed nations commit to mobilising $300 billion annually by 2035 to support climate mitigation and adaptation. However, the private sector’s role was equally emphasised, as public funding alone is insufficient to meet the scale of investment needed.

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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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Boosting the energy efficiency of UK homes

UK homes account for 15% of all national carbon emissions. Barclays sets out five recommendations to help the Government address the structural and behavioural challenges hindering efforts to accelerate progress in making homes more energy efficient.

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Turning the UK’s hydrogen ambitions into a reality

Barclays makes policy recommendations to UK government to support the scaling of private finance to deliver a pragmatic approach to clean hydrogen.

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COP16 – expert view: the role of private finance

Following COP16, Isabelle Millat, Head of Sustainable Finance Global Markets & Barclays Europe, shares her insights into the role of private finance in helping to support National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.

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Sustainability explained

Sustainability explained is your go-to source to demystify the terminology and phrases you might come across on Sustainability insights.

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The Barclays Climate Tech podcast

The Barclays Climate Tech podcast is the ultimate guide to taking a climate tech company from idea to IPO.

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Our insights hubs

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Global insights

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Sustainability insights

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UK unlocked

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Investor news

INVESTORS

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Latest updates

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Regulator updates

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