Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-029335
Chunk: 187

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 424B2
Chunk 187
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, the global security will terminate and interests in it will be exchanged for physical certificates representing securities. After that exchange, the choice of whether to hold the securities directly or in street name will be up to the investor. Investors must consult their own bank or brokers to find out how to have their interests in a global security transferred to their own name so that they will be -52-

registered holders. The rights of street name investors and registered holders in the securities have been described above in the sections entitled “—Legal Ownership; Form of Securities—Street Name and Other Indirect Holders; Registered Holders.” The special situations for termination of a global security are:

| • |     | when (x) the depositary has notified us that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary or 
 (y) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act;                           |

| • |     | when a Senior Winding-up Event, a Dated Subordinated Winding-up Event or a Contingent Capital Winding-up Event, as applicable, with respect to relevant global security, has occurred and is continuing; or |

| • |     | when we at our option and in our sole discretion determine that the global securities of a particular series of                                                                                                                                  
 debt securities and/or contingent capital securities should be exchanged for definitive Senior Debt Securities, definitive Dated Subordinated Debt Securities and/or definitive contingent capital securities of that series in registered form. |

The prospectus supplement may also list additional situations for terminating a global security that would apply only to the particular series of securities covered by the prospectus supplement. When a global security terminates, the depositary (and not us or the trustee) is responsible for deciding the names of the institutions that will be the initial registered holders. -53-

CLEARANCE AND SETTLEMENT

The securities we issue may be held through one or more international and domestic clearing systems. The principal clearing systems we will
use are the book-entry systems operated by DTC, in the United States, Clearstream Banking, S.A. (“Clearstream, Luxembourg”), in Luxembourg and Euroclear Bank SA/NV (“Euroclear”), in Brussels, Belgium. These systems have
established electronic securities and payment transfer, processing, depositary and custodial links among themselves and others, either directly or through custodians and depositaries. These links allow securities to be issued, held and transferred
among the clearing systems without the physical transfer of certificates.

Special procedures to facilitate clearance and settlement have
been established among these clearing