Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-029335
Chunk: 189

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 424B2
Chunk 189
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 systems could change their rules and procedures at any time.

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The Clearing Systems DTC DTC has advised us as follows:

| • |     | DTC is: |

| (1) | a limited purpose trust company organized under the laws of the State of New York; |

| (2) | a “banking organization” within the meaning of New York Banking Law; |

| (3) | a member of the Federal Reserve System; |

| (4) | a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code; and |

| (5) | a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Exchange Act. |

| • |     | DTC was created to hold securities for its participants and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of                                                                         
 securities transactions between participants through electronic book-entry changes to accounts of its participants. This eliminates the need for physical movement of securities. |

| • |     | Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations and        
 may include certain other organizations. DTC is partially owned by some of these participants or their representatives. |

| • |     | Indirect access to the DTC system is also available to banks, brokers and dealers and trust companies that have 
 custodial relationships with participants.                                                                      |

| • |     | The rules applicable to DTC and DTC participants are on file with the SEC. |

Clearstream, Luxembourg Clearstream, Luxembourg has advised us as follows:

| • |     | Clearstream, Luxembourg is a duly licensed bank organized as a société anonyme incorporated under                                                                               
 the laws of Luxembourg and is subject to regulation by the Luxembourg Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Sector (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier). |

| • |     | Clearstream, Luxembourg holds securities for its customers and facilitates the clearance and settlement of                                                                                  
 securities transactions among them. It does so through electronic book-entry transfers between the accounts of its customers. This eliminates the need for physical movement of securities. |

| • |     | Clearstream, Luxembourg provides other services to its customers, including safekeeping, administration,                                                                                                                        
 clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and lending and borrowing of securities. It interfaces with the domestic markets in over 30 countries through established depositary and custodial relationships. |

| • |     | Clearstream, Luxembourg’s customers include worldwide securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies                                                 
 and clearing