Barclays
Barclays PLC is a global banking and financial services company with its corporate headquarters in London. Barclays is the only major UK bank, other than HSBC, which survived the financial crisis without government help, thanks largely to it having been outbid by RBS for the purchase of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007.
It has 13% of the UK's current accounts and personal loan business and 10% of savings. Since 2006 it has made more than half its profits overseas, being ranked tenth biggest bank in the world. In 2008 it acquired some of the business of the collapsed Lehman Brothers. A year later it bought Standard Life Bank and in 2011 it purchased the credit card business of Egg. Barclays launched the first cashless payment card and the first credit card rewarding customers for green purchasing. Barclaycard issues one in five of the UK's credit cards.
