Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Northern Rock, National Westminster Bank, Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, N M Rothschild & Sons, Bradford & Bingley, HBOS, Standard Chartered Bank, Coutts, Santander UK, Abbey National, Halifax, HSBC Bank, Big Four, Clydesdale Bank, List of banks in the United Kingdom, The Co-operative Bank, C. Hoare & Co, George Haynes, Panmure Gordon & Co., Egg Banking, Tesco Bank, Cahoot, First Trust Bank, Cheltenham & Gloucester, National Savings and Investments, Yorkshire Bank, Islamic Bank of Britain, Hill Samuel, First Direct, International Westminster Bank, Duncan Lawrie, Social Investment Wholesale Bank, Church House Trust, The Woolwich, BMCE Bank International, Smith's Bank, The One account, Close Brothers Group, Metro Bank, Adam and Company, Smile, OneSavings Bank, Birmingham Midshires, Bristol & West, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, Harrods Bank, Intelligent Finance, Unity Trust Bank, Reliance Bank, Barclays Wealth, HiSAVE, Brown, Shipley & Co., Sainsbury's Bank, Raphaels Bank, A Ruffer & Sons, Arbuthnot Latham & Co, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, Homelink, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. London. Excerpt: Barclays PLC (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS) is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As of 2010 it was the world's 10th-largest banking and financial services group and 21st-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America and around 48 million customers. As of 30 June 2010 it had total assets of 1.94 trillion, the third-largest of any bank worldwide (after BNP Paribas and HSBC). Barclays is a universal bank and is organised within two business 'clusters' Corporate...