Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-031790
Chunk: 175

Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 424B2
Chunk 175
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Euroclear Euroclear has advised us as follows:

| • |     | Euroclear is incorporated under the laws of Belgium as a bank and is subject to regulation by the Belgian                                                 
 Financial Services and Markets Authority (L’Autorité des Services et Marchés Financiers) and the National Bank of Belgium (Banque Nationale de Belgique). |

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| • |     | Euroclear holds securities and book-entry interests in securities for participating organizations and facilitates                                                                                                                                   
 the clearance and settlement of securities transactions between Euroclear participants and between Euroclear participants and participants of certain other securities settlement systems through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of such 
 participants or through other securities intermediaries.                                                                                                                                                                                            |

| • |     | Euroclear provides Euroclear participants, among other things, with safekeeping, administration, clearance and                                                                                                                                            
 settlement, securities lending and borrowing, and related services. Euroclear participants are investment banks, securities brokers and dealers, banks, central banks, supranationals, custodians, investment managers, corporations, trust companies and 
 certain other organizations. Certain of the managers or underwriters for an offering of securities, or other financial entities involved in such offering, may be Euroclear participants.                                                                 |

| • |     | Non-participants in the Euroclear system may hold and transfer book-entry                                                                                                                                                                                 
 interests in the securities through accounts with a participant in the Euroclear system or any other securities intermediary that holds a book-entry interest in the securities through one or more securities intermediaries standing between such other 
 securities intermediary and Euroclear.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

| • |     | Although Euroclear has agreed to the procedures provided below in order to facilitate transfers of securities                                                                                                                                           
 among participants in the Euroclear system, and between Euroclear participants and participants of other securities settlement systems, it is under no obligation to perform or continue to perform such procedures and such procedures may be modified 
 or discontinued at any time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

| • |     | Investors electing to acquire any securities through an account with Euroclear or some other securities                                                                                                                                                   
 intermediary must follow the settlement procedures of such an intermediary with respect to the settlement of new issues of securities. Securities to be acquired against payment through an account with Euroclear will be credited to the securities     
 clearance accounts of the respective Euroclear participants in the securities processing cycle for the business day following the settlement date for value as of the settlement date, if against payment. For more information, reference should be made 
 to the New Issues Distribution Guide.