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Barclays 2012 Annual General Meeting
The Barclays 2012 AGM will be held at 11:00 (UK time) on Friday, 27 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Barclays headquarters at 1 Churchill Place, London
Investor relations
2012 Q1 Interim Management Statement
Chief Executive Bob Diamond said: "Barclays first quarter results are an encouraging start to the year and demonstrate continued progress across our execution priorities."
Institutional investors
Results, reports and the latest news and publications from Barclays
Barclays results
Our latest results
Our 2012 Q1 Interim Management Statement was announced on 26 April 2012.
Results archive
Explore our archive to find results announcements and publications dating back to 1997.
Annual Reports
Barclays 2011 Annual Report
Find out about Barclays performance in 2011.
Barclays 2010 Annual Report
Find out about Barclays performance in 2010.
Barclays 2009 Annual Report
Find out about Barclays performance in 2009.
Barclays 2008 Annual Report
Find out about Barclays performance in 2008.
Annual Reports archive
Explore an archive of Barclays Annual Reports and Annual Reviews from the latest publications to documents dating back to 1990.
Presentations
Presentations from 2012
Find details of presentations, announcements, speeches, and seminars from 2012.
Presentations archive
Find details of presentations, announcements, speeches, and seminars dating back to 2005.
Investor news
Latest investor news
Download Barclays latest investor news releases, sign up for automated news alerts and find out more about share buyback programmes.
Regulatory announcements
Find information via a live feed from the London Stock Exchange's Regulatory News Service.
Barclays news
Visit our news hub for the latest press releases and news reports on our products, people and operations around the world.
Consensus estimates
Consensus estimates
Find current projections of Barclays financial performance by sell-side analysts.
Shareholders
Everything you need to manage and track your Barclays shares.
Manage your shares
Barclays e-view
Manage your shares online, and receive the latest updates directly to your inbox. An increasing number of Barclays shareholders now receive their communications electronically, and are discovering the convenience of using the internet and email to find out about their shareholding and Barclays performance.
Barclays Sharestore
Barclays Sharestore is a convenient way to hold your shares electronically without a share certificate. Transferring shares into Sharestore is free.
Barclays Stockbrokers
Barclays Stockbrokers provides a range of services, allowing you to manage your Barclays shares in the way that best suits your needs. You can choose from the MarketMaster account, through which Barclays Stockbrokers will hold your assets on your behalf, or the ShareDeal account, where you retain paper share certificates in your name.
Tax information
The following information is intended to provide general guidance to individuals who are UK-resident shareholders in Barclays PLC and does not constitute professional advice. Shareholders, particularly those who are not resident in the UK, should take advice from their professional adviser if in doubt as to their personal tax position.
Shareholder forms
Useful forms to help you manage your Barclays shares and update your personal details. Access change of address, bank mandate, Barclays Dividend Reinvestment Plan mandate, Sharestore application and stock transfer forms, as well as related terms and conditions.
Share price tools
Share price tools
Barclays Stockbrokers provides a range of services, allowing you to manage your Barclays shares in the way that best suits your needs. You can choose from the MarketMaster account, through which Barclays Stockbrokers will hold your assets on your behalf, or the ShareDeal account, where you retain paper share certificates in your name.
AGMs and Annual Reports
Annual General Meetings
Barclays 2012 AGM was held at 11:00 (UK time) on Friday, 27 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Annual Reports
View online versions of Barclays Annual Reports and Reviews, and download associated documents such as consolidated disclosures and Form 20-F reports dating from 1990 to the present day.
Shareholder information
Dividends
Barclays declares and pays dividends on a quarterly basis. There are three equal payments in June, September and December each year and a final variable payment in March. We intend our dividend policy to be progressive.
As a shareholder, you can choose how to receive your dividend payment. Options include joining the Barclays Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) or receiving dividends directly into your bank or building society account.
American Depository Receipts
An American Depositary Receipt (ADR) represents the ownership of shares in a non-US company trading in US financial markets. ADRs carry prices, and pay dividends, in US dollars.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to frequently-asked questions about your Barclays shares, including how to update your personal details, information about buying and selling shares, advice on dividends, and help with our share tools and services.
Contact us
Contact details for queries on managing your shares, as well as Barclays Stockbrokers and American Depository Receipts.
Executing our strategy
Executing our strategy
Our integrated universal banking model has enabled us to focus on our execution priorities: capital, returns, income growth and citizenship.
Debt investors
Barclays aims to provide clear, relevant information for existing and potential debt investors. Find out more about Barclays credit ratings, capital ratios, senior and subordinated debt securities, and securitisation and covered bond transactions
Capital and debt securities
Capital and funding strategy
We optimise the level and mix of our capital resources, while ensuring prudent risk management at all times. Barclays manages its funding position to comply with regulatory requirements prescribed by the UK FSA and to meet the higher standards for prudent liquidity management set by the Board.
Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC (the 'Issuers'), have established a £60bn Debt Issuance Programme.
Under the programme, established through Barclays Treasury, the Issuers can issue a variety of debt instruments, including senior notes and dated or undated capital notes. There are a number of other programmes in existence which have been established for multi-currency short- and long-term funding purposes. We also raise capital and senior debt through a variety of standalone structures.
Barclays has a strong history of managing our capital ratios.
Find information about our historic capital ratios, including our Core Tier 1 Ratio, Tier 1 Ratio and Risk Asset Ratio.
Secured funding
Barclays undertakes securitisations of (i) own originated assets and (ii) third party assets through a variety of vehicles/transactions structures.
Barclays objectives in securitising its own assets include:
- Obtaining regulatory capital relief
- Reducing credit risk
- Obtaining term liquidity for the Group balance sheet.
Barclays securitises credit card receivables through the Cumbernauld and Gracechurch structures.
Barclays has the right to receive repayments in respect of its UK Barclaycard portfolio (which includes assets acquired from Discover UK in 2008). We securitise these receivable assets through, respectively, the Gracechurch Card Funding ("GCF") and the Cumbernauld Funding ("Cumbernauld") structures.
Barclays securitises corporate loans through the Gracechurch Corporate Loans structure.
Barclays synthetically securitises corporate loan assets through our Gracechurch Corporate Loan (GCL) structure.
Barclays issues covered bonds that comply with the UK FSA’s Regulated Covered Bond Regulations.
Barclays Bank PLC has been on the UK FSA’s Regulated Covered Bond Register since November 2008.
Residential mortgage loans
Barclays securitises a proportion of its residential mortgage loan assets through standalone and master trust securitisation structures: Gracechurch Mortgage Funding (GMFunding), Gracechurch Mortgage Financing (GMFinancing) respectively. On 1 January, 2010, Barclays acquired Standard Life Bank (SLB). The former SLB's residential mortgage loans continue to be securitised through the Lothian master trust structure.
Investor reports
Barclays securitises credit card receivables through the Cumbernauld and Gracechurch structures.
Barclays has the right to receive repayments in respect of its UK Barclaycard portfolio (which includes assets acquired from Discover UK in 2008). We securitise these receivable assets through, respectively, the Gracechurch Card Funding ("GCF") and the Cumbernauld Funding ("Cumbernauld") structures.
Barclays securitises corporate loans through the Gracechurch Corporate Loans structure.
Barclays synthetically securitises corporate loan assets through our Gracechurch Corporate Loan (GCL) structure.
Residential mortgage loan
Barclays securitises a proportion of its residential mortgage loan assets through standalone and master trust securitisation structures: Gracechurch Mortgage Funding (GMFunding), Gracechurch Mortgage Financing (GMFinancing) respectively. On 1 January, 2010, Barclays acquired Standard Life Bank (SLB). The former SLB's residential mortgage loans continue to be securitised through the Lothian master trust structure.
Covered bonds
Barclays issues covered bonds that comply with the UK FSA’s Regulated Covered Bond Regulations.
Transaction information
Access supplementary transaction information, and details of how to request access to key transaction documents, loan level information and transaction liability models.
Barclays credit ratings
Barclays current credit ratings
Find credit ratings for both Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC
Credit Ratings definitions
Definitions of long-term credit ratings and short-term credit ratings of Barclays Bank PLC.
Barclays credit rating history
Find summary details of our long-term credit ratings history.
Barclays credit ratings reports
Download Barclays latest credit ratings reports from Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch.
Prospectuses
Detailed terms and conditions and full disclosure for each transaction
Access the relevant prospectus for each of our transactions from the Global Filings website. You must register with Global Filings to access the documents, and provide appropriate legal confirmations.
Investor events and key dates
Find out about upcoming Barclays results and events
Barclays will announce its 2012 Interim Results on 27 July 2012. Visit our financial calendar to find out more.
Share price
The latest Barclays share price, with links to our share price tools and useful information for shareholders.
Current Share Price
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Directory
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Dividends
Find out more information about our latest dividend and view our dividend payment history and forms.
AGMs
Find out more about our Annual General Meetings and access our archive of previous meetings, downloads and webcasts
Annual Reports archive
Archive of Annual Reports and Annual Reviews from the latest publications to documents dating back to 1990.
Consensus estimates
Current projections of Barclays financial performance by sell-side analysts.
Manage your shares
Information and tools to help you manage your shares easily and securely.
Sharestore
Transfer your shares into Barclays Sharestore, removing the need for share certificates.
Capital Ratios
Barclays has a strong history of managing its capital ratios.
Credit rating definitions
Definitions of long-term credit ratings and short-term credit ratings of Barclays Bank PLC.
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