Company: BCS
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-030302
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Company: BARCLAYS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 424B2
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 to, the registration statement for further information on us and the securities we are offering. Statements in this prospectus concerning any document we have filed or will file as an exhibit to the registration
statement or that we have otherwise filed with the SEC are not intended to be comprehensive and are qualified in their entirety by reference to these filings. You should review the complete document to evaluate these statements. You may review a
copy of the registration statement at the SEC’s internet site, as described under “Where You Can Find More Information” in this prospectus.

We filed the 2023 Form 20-F with the SEC on February 20, 2024 (File No. 001-09246). We are incorporating the 2023 Form 20-F by reference into this prospectus.

In addition, we incorporate by reference into this prospectus any future documents that we may file with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act from the date of this prospectus until the offering contemplated in this prospectus is completed. Reports on Form 6-K we may furnish to the SEC after the date of this prospectus
(or portions thereof) are incorporated by reference in this prospectus only to the extent that the report expressly states that it is (or such portions are) incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

We will provide to you, upon your written or oral request, without charge, a copy of any or all of the documents referred to above which we
have incorporated in this prospectus by reference. You should direct your requests to Barclays Treasury, Barclays PLC, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP, United Kingdom (telephone: 011-44-20-7116-1000).

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CERTAIN DEFINITIONS For purposes of this prospectus:

| • |     | “Capital Regulations” means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements, standards, guidelines                                                                                                                                           
 and policies relating to capital adequacy and/or minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity for credit institutions of either (i) the PRA and/or (ii) any other national or European authority, 
 in each case then in effect in the United Kingdom (or in such other jurisdiction in which the Issuer may be organized or domiciled) and applicable to the Group, including U.K. CRD;                                                           |

| • |     | “EU CRD” means: |

| (i) | Regulation (EU) No