Barclays Deck
What does 'transatlantic' mean in Barclays's self-description, and where are its headquarters?
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Barclays describes itself as a transatlantic bank: a UK-headquartered universal bank with a genuine, at-scale US investment banking and markets presence — a combination almost no other European bank…
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