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Founded: 1690 (earliest predecessor); Barclays name adopted 1896
Founders: Formalized 1896 by the merger of 20 English banks; traces to a Quaker goldsmith-banking business from 1690
One of the oldest banks in the world, tracing to a 17th-century London goldsmith-bank, formally constituted as Barclays and Co. in 1896.
