8 May 2026

Barclays PLC

Transaction in own shares, completion of FY 2025 buy-back

and commencement of Q1 2026 buy-back

Completion of FY 2025 buy-back

Barclays PLC (the ''Company'') announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from J.P. Morgan Securities plc (''JPM'') as part of its buy-back announced on 10 February 2026:

The Company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares.

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 13,613,539,896 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The above figure 13,613,539,896 may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended, a full breakdown of the individual purchases of ordinary shares made by JPM on behalf of the Company

can be found at:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/5019D_1-2026-5-7.pdf

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these shares, the share buy-back programme announced on 10 February 2026 has completed. Since the commencement of the buy-back, the Company has repurchased for cancellation 234,851,257 ordinary shares in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 425.8014 pence per ordinary share for a total consideration of approximately £1 billion.

Commencement of Q1 2026 buy-back

The Company announces that, further to the completion of the share buy-back programme announced on 10 February 2026, the share buy-back programme announced on 29 April 2026 to purchase ordinary shares for up to a maximum consideration of £500m will commence on 8 May 2026. The maximum number of ordinary shares which may be purchased under such buy-back is 832,521,312.

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About Barclays

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leading in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.

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