Global markets

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Global markets

Across the full range of asset classes, and around the world, our Global Markets team provides execution and risk management to corporations, governments and financial institutions.

Fixed Income

Interest Rate Products

Interest Rate Products

Barclays has been a market leader in interest rates for many years. We offer a full product set in all major European currencies, USD, Yen and more. We consistently attain high rankings on a number of electronic execution platforms, including BARX.

Credit

Credit

Barclays maintains its market-leading credit franchise with superior ideas, solutions and liquidity across a full range of products globally. The demand for global credit is strong, and we are well placed to provide you with innovative products and services that give you a competitive edge.

Inflation-linked

Inflation-linked

Barclays is a leading market maker and a top-tier lead-manager of issuance in inflation-linked securities, in which we have one of the largest bond franchises globally. This enables us to offer an unsurpassed breadth of products and continue our commitment to the development and growth of inflation-linked markets.

Municipal Bonds

Municipal Bonds

Barclays is one of the top dealers of US municipal bonds. Our strategic, solutions-based, client driven business model is designed to deliver a wide range of services. Our services are comprehensive and include investment banking, underwriting, derivatives, research, sales and trading.

Securitisation

Securitisation

Barclays is a leader in the structuring, global distribution, trading, and research of asset backed products in the Asset Backed Securities and Asset Backed Commercial Paper markets. We provide you with seamless execution of securitisation transactions, and in-depth market intelligence.

Commodities

Overview

Overview

Barclays is acknowledged to be one of the top three players in the major commodity asset classes, and remains at the forefront of the industry. If you are seeking exposure to commodities as an asset class, we can offer you an extensive and innovative suite of products.

Agricultural Products

Agricultural Products

Barclays offers an extensive platform of commodity risk management and financial services solutions across a broad spectrum of agricultural products.

Coal and Dry Freight

Coal and Dry Freight

Barclays has removed uncertainty and locked-in favourable prices for many coal and cement producers, utilities, and steel mills. In the volatile world of dry bulk shipping, we focus on providing trading services in Forward Freight Agreement and advice to charterers, owners, and operators.

Crude Oil and Refined Products

Crude Oil and Refined Products

We transact in over the counter physical and financially settled crude and refined markets. Barclays also hedges exposures with Exchange traded instruments. Our client base covers producers, refiners, consumers and intermediaries giving us the in-depth of knowledge to assist you in every area of the market.

Environmental Markets

Environmental Markets

As an award-winning liquidity provider, Barclays applies banking experience to markets and intermediation, risk management and structuring, financing, investment, and investor solutions. Our extensive product range makes us ideally placed to help you manage your carbon risk exposure.

Industrial Materials and Precious Metals

Industrial / Precious Metals

Barclays Bank Plc has one of the highest credit ratings at the LME and unlike most Ring Dealing Members our focus includes longer dated structured solutions to client exposures, as well as assisting you in managing them day-to-day. We are market leaders in metals, and part of the ‘Gold Fix’ process.

The Barclays Vault

The Barclays Vault

Barclays has been offering precious metal transfer clearing services and account custodian services to the market for many years. In response to increased client demand for vaulting services, Barclays has opened a new state-of-the art loco London vaulting facility offering storage services for gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium.

Mining and Metals

Mining and Metals

From a position as one of the most established mining and metal franchises in the industry Barclays delivers a consistent product offering world-wide, as well as services including advisory and risk management. Our team provides the experience and local expertise for the know-how you need.

Power and Gas

Power and Gas

Given the interaction between oil, gas, coal, emissions and power, Barclays presence in all markets gives us unique cross commodity capabilities. In addition Barclays Bank Plc’s strong credit rating allows us to provide you with long-dated risk management solutions.

FX

Overview

Overview

Barclays provides global FX execution and risk management services. We have won several awards across the full product spectrum ranging from ecommerce to complex derivatives. Our aim is to offer you the most comprehensive range of products and services, executed in the most efficient way.

BARX

BARX

The award-winning BARX electronic trading platform delivers a full suite of FX execution capabilities, market-leading functionality, and seamless execution. With BARX, you have access to 24 hour, two-way executable streaming prices for over 55 currencies and 300 currency pairs plus FX options, including: streaming exotics, dual currency investments and superior algorithmic trading via PowerFill+.

Risk Solutions

Risk Solutions

Our corporate and investor advisory teams have extensive global experience. They are dedicated to helping you evaluate and manage risk exposure. From complex, cross-border FX issues to providing hedging solutions based on local market accounting considerations to guidance on the execution of trades, Barclays coordinates across divisions, asset classes and regions to deliver your success.

Prime Brokerage

Prime Brokerage

Our dedicated global teams provide superior personal service focused on your goals. From comprehensive trading capabilities delivered on the award winning BARX FX trading platform, to our Global Netting Agreement that simplifies margin management, to a holistic approach to execution and servicing, we offer a fully integrated prime brokerage model that fits with your individual strategies.

Research

Research

From macro and thematic research with a global focus to quantitative research that includes models and indicators to a range of analytical tools, we provide you with a comprehensive suite of industry leading products and publications. Barclays Live, our top-ranked client website portal, makes it easier and faster to find the latest insight that helps you make the right decision at the right time.

Structured Products

Structured Products

Beginning with a consistent pricing framework and deep risk management expertise, we offer you customized investment products, hedging strategies, cash flow hedging structures and strategic balance sheet hedges.

Emerging Markets

Our Emerging Markets team operates from three regional hubs in London, New York and Singapore as well as from local trading, sales and banking locations. With over 250 professionals globally, we are experienced in delivering a full range of emerging markets products.

Prime Services

Barclays Prime Services provides a fully integrated cross-asset class offering for financing, clearing and execution globally. Our leading platform delivers asset protection, margining solutions, industry intelligence, analytics & execution technologies.

Equities

Barclays is an acknowledged leader in advanced equity products and services. We provide you with research and market intelligence for pre-trade portfolio and investment creation and risk management, trade insight and execution across a wide breadth of products, and post-trade management and servicing.

Funds and Advisory

Funds and Advisory aims to combine the strengths of asset management and investment banking to provide all investors with truly value-added investment solutions.

Distribution

BARX

BARX is Barclays' full suite of award-winning execution platforms with over 10,000 clients and over US$50bn in transactions daily.

BARX

Investor Solutions

Barclays' Investor Solutions team provides innovative structured investment solutions to third-party intermediary clients for distribution to retail investors.

Investor Solutions

Structured Products

Structured products are typically tailor-made to meet your specific investment requirements, and involve the full range of asset classes in which Barclays operates.

Structured Products

Directory

Barclays Infrastructure Funds

Barclays Infrastructure Funds

The Infrastructure business manages investments in social infrastructure projects sponsored by the Government under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership (PPP) programmes.

BNRI

BNRI

Barclays Natural Resource Investments (“BNRI”) is a global private equity business focused on natural resource investment opportunities that provides clients of Barclays Bank Plc (or its affiliates) and strategic investors with the opportunity to gain exposure to the natural resources sector by co-investing alongside Barclays.