Barclays Investment Bank

Shareholders of Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank has no shareholders, no share register and no share classes of its own. It is an operating division, and a division is not a legal person, so there is nothing for anyone to hold shares in. The question can only be answered about a company. Within this group the relevant companies are Barclays PLC (England and Wales, company number 00048839) and Barclays Bank PLC (England and Wales, company number 01026167). The Dubai International Financial Centre presence is a branch of Barclays Bank PLC and likewise has no separate share capital and no shareholders of its own.

Barclays PLC is a widely held company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Its Annual Report 2025 records that, as at 31 December 2025, the company had been notified under Rule 5 of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of a single holding of voting rights in its shares: BlackRock, Inc., 944,022,209 Barclays shares, 5.78% of the total voting rights attaching to issued share capital, held indirectly. Barclays states that the percentage was calculated at the time of the relevant disclosure rather than as at 31 December 2025, that the total includes 6,687,206 contracts for difference to which voting rights are attached, and that part of the holding is held as American Depositary Receipts. Barclays further records that no additional Rule 5 notifications were received between 31 December 2025 and 6 February 2026, the latest practicable date for inclusion in that report, and that no persons hold securities carrying special rights with regard to control of the company. The notification threshold for substantial shareholders is 3% of voting rights, so holdings below 3% are not published at all.

BlackRock, Inc. is an asset manager, and the notified interest is an indirect, aggregated position across funds and accounts under its management, part of it held through depositary receipts and contracts for difference. It is a disclosable interest, not control of the company, and it is not presented here as beneficial ownership. On the published evidence no single holder controls Barclays PLC.

For scale, Barclays PLC notified the market on 1 October 2026 that as at 30 September 2026 its issued share capital consisted of 13,372,261,916 ordinary shares with voting rights, with no ordinary shares held in treasury. Ordinary shares represented 100% of issued share capital as at 31 December 2025 and no preference shares had been issued. During 2025 the company repurchased 635,700,571 ordinary shares for an aggregate 2,220m pounds, approximately 4.6% of its issued share capital, all of which were cancelled.

Barclays Bank PLC, the company through which the division’s wholesale business is carried on, is held within the group rather than by outside investors. Companies House records one active corporate person with significant control over it: Barclays Plc, registration number 48839, governed by the law of England and Wales, notified on 6 April 2016, with nature of control recorded as ownership of 75% or more of the shares, ownership of 75% or more of the voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors. That filing publishes a control band rather than an exact figure, so the precise percentage is not disclosed.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No ultimate beneficial owner can be identified for this record, and that is the correct answer rather than a gap in the research. Barclays Investment Bank, as a division, has no owners at all. For Barclays PLC, Companies House states that from 1 April 2018 the company is exempt from the requirement to obtain information about its persons with significant control because it has voting shares admitted to trading on a UK regulated market. With one notified holding at 5.78% and no person holding securities carrying special control rights, no natural person reaches a beneficial-ownership threshold through its share register. Any named individual presented as the ultimate beneficial owner of this record should be treated as unsupported.

Data availability

Major shareholders only, for the listed parent; not applicable to the division itself. For a company with voting shares on a UK regulated market the register publishes substantial holdings above the 3% notification threshold and nothing below it, and the statutory persons-with-significant-control regime does not apply, so a complete shareholder base is not published anywhere. For the subsidiary the position is Partial: control is published as a 75%-or-more band, not as a percentage. Unavailable information is not evidence that there are no further holders.

Sources

Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025, Directors’ report: other statutory and regulatory information, major shareholders table as at 31 December 2025. Barclays PLC Total Voting Rights announcement dated 1 October 2026. Companies House persons-with-significant-control registers for Barclays PLC (00048839) and Barclays Bank PLC (01026167), retrieved 8 October 2026.

Directors and officers of Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank has no directors, no company secretary and no board of its own. Those offices exist only in a company, and this record names an operating division. The Dubai International Financial Centre presence is a branch of Barclays Bank PLC rather than a separate company, so it has no board of its own either. Officer questions about this record have to be answered about a legal person, and the relevant ones are Barclays PLC (England and Wales, 00048839) and Barclays Bank PLC (England and Wales, 01026167).

The Companies House officer register for Barclays PLC, read on 8 October 2026, holds 102 officer records of which 89 are recorded as resigned. Thirteen appointments are not recorded as having ended: twelve Directors and one Secretary. The Secretary is Hannah Elisabeth Ellwood, appointed 15 February 2023. Among the twelve directors, Barclays PLC’s Annual Report 2025 identifies Nigel Higgins as Group Chairman, appointed to the board in March 2019 and as Chairman in May 2019, C. S. Venkatakrishnan as Group Chief Executive, appointed November 2021, and Anna Cross as Group Finance Director; the remaining directors serve as independent non-executive directors. Appointment dates on the register for the serving directors run from 25 September 2019 to 1 June 2025. Companies House publishes a nationality and a separate country of residence for each director: filed nationalities include British, American, French and Greek, and filed countries of residence include the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Jersey. Those are two distinct fields and neither is inferred here from a person’s name, address or the other field. Beyond the three changes listed below, the register also records the termination of Timothy James Breedon, a Director from 1 November 2012, on 30 April 2025.

Recent officer changes

• Mary Elizabeth Francis, Director, appointed 1 October 2016, termination recorded at Companies House on 6 May 2026. Barclays PLC’s Annual Report 2025 still lists her as an independent non-executive director because that report was prepared to 6 February 2026; the register is the later record and supersedes it. This is why officer tense is taken from filings here and not from the annual report’s board list.
• Mary Tabb Mack, Director, appointed 1 June 2025; nationality filed as American, country of residence filed as the United States.
• Dioni-Catherine Lebot, Director, appointed 17 March 2025; nationalities filed as French and Greek, country of residence filed as France.

Data availability

Full for the companies, and not applicable to the division. Companies House publishes current and former officers for Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC with the legal role, appointment date, termination date where one exists, nationality and country of residence. Occupation is not populated for the serving officers, so it is reported as not disclosed rather than copied from the role. Residential addresses are not published; the correspondence address shown for every serving officer is the company’s registered office at 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP, which is a service address and not a home address. For the branch layer the position is Restricted rather than unavailable: the Dubai Financial Services Authority public register, which would hold the authorised-individual detail for Barclays Bank PLC (DIFC Branch), returned HTTP 403 for every dfsa.ae address tested on 8 October 2026 including the site root, while fca.org.uk and the Companies House service both returned HTTP 200 in the same session. The information exists but could not be opened at source, and no officer or licence detail is asserted here from a search-result snippet. The Financial Conduct Authority’s Financial Services Register could not be read either: its search pages return a page shell with no register content over plain HTTP, so no firm reference number is published here.

Sources

Companies House officer register for Barclays PLC (00048839), 102 officer records, retrieved 8 October 2026. Companies House register entry for Barclays Bank PLC (01026167), retrieved 8 October 2026. Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025, Board of Directors section, prepared to 6 February 2026. Barclays important EMEA disclosures, home.barclays, retrieved 8 October 2026.

Group structure of Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank is a reportable operating segment of the Barclays PLC group, not an entity in that group’s legal structure. It has no immediate parent, no ultimate parent and no subsidiaries of its own, because a division is not a company and cannot hold or be held. What can be mapped from official filings is the chain of legal persons through which the division’s business is carried on.

Barclays PLC (England and Wales, 00048839) sits at the top of that chain. GLEIF Level 2 relationship data, read on 8 October 2026, records no direct parent and no ultimate parent for Barclays PLC, and 24 entities held directly by it. Companies House holds an active corporate person-with-significant-control filing on Barclays Bank PLC (01026167) naming Barclays Plc, registration number 48839, legal form public limited company, governing law England and Wales, place registered Companies House, notified on 6 April 2016, with nature of control recorded as ownership of 75% or more of the shares, ownership of 75% or more of the voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors. That filing reports a control band rather than a figure, so the exact ownership percentage is not disclosed. GLEIF records Barclays PLC as both the direct and the ultimate parent of Barclays Bank PLC and of Barclays Bank UK PLC, and records Barclays Bank PLC as the direct parent of Barclays Bank Ireland Public Limited Company with Barclays PLC as that company’s ultimate parent.

GLEIF records 73 entities held directly by Barclays Bank PLC, distributed across Great Britain (34), Luxembourg (14), the Cayman Islands (10), the United States (4), Ireland (2), Japan (2) and one each in Turkey, Taiwan, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Brazil. None of those 73 entities, and none of the 24 held directly by Barclays PLC, has a United Arab Emirates legal address.

Verified corporate relationships

The two branches are listed to make the distinction explicit: a branch carries its own local registration number and even its own LEI, yet it is the same English company as Barclays Bank PLC. A local registration or regulatory number of that kind is not a company registration and does not create a shareholder, a director or an ultimate beneficial owner.

Data availability

Partial. The parent chain is well documented for the UK and Irish entities: Companies House publishes a corporate persons-with-significant-control filing for Barclays Bank PLC, and GLEIF publishes direct and ultimate parent relationships for Barclays PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays Bank UK PLC and Barclays Bank Ireland. Ownership percentages are Partial, because the persons-with-significant-control regime publishes bands and GLEIF publishes relationships without percentages, so “ownership percentage not disclosed” is the correct reading for each subsidiary above and no indirect percentage has been calculated. The branch layer is Restricted: the Dubai Financial Services Authority public register, which would carry the licence detail for Barclays Bank PLC (DIFC Branch), returned HTTP 403 for every dfsa.ae address tested on 8 October 2026 including the site root, and www.difc.ae returned HTTP 429, while portal.difc.ae, fca.org.uk and the Companies House service all returned HTTP 200 in the same session. The DIFC registration number shown above is taken from Barclays’ own published EMEA disclosures, opened at source, not from a search-result snippet. No acquisition, disposal, merger or reorganisation affecting the entities above was verified from these sources, which is reported as unestablished rather than as none having occurred. The absence of any United Arab Emirates entity is a measured negative: a GLEIF query for entities named “Barclays” with a UAE legal address returned nil in the same session in which the same query returned 95 records for a Great Britain legal address and 9,527 records for UAE entities of any name.

Sources

Companies House register entries and persons-with-significant-control registers for Barclays PLC (00048839) and Barclays Bank PLC (01026167), retrieved 8 October 2026. GLEIF Level 1 and Level 2 relationship data for Barclays PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays Bank UK PLC and Barclays Bank Ireland Public Limited Company, retrieved 8 October 2026. Barclays important EMEA disclosures, home.barclays, retrieved 8 October 2026. Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025.