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📢NEWS: Today, we’re launching Backing Britain’s Future, a long-term commitment to support 1.5 million businesses and entrepreneurs through start-up, scaling, investment and international growth by 2030. British businesses play a vital role in driving growth across the UK. Through Backing Britain’s Future, we’re helping entrepreneurs and small businesses access the expertise, finance, and networks they need to grow and scale. At the heart of this commitment is our ability to help a business go from idea to IPO, providing a continuum of support to help businesses at every stage of their growth journey. Building on more than 300 years of supporting businesses through periods of change and opportunity, we want to help more businesses convert ambition and confidence into investment and long-term growth in every postcode.   🔗For more information on Backing Britain’s Future, see the link in the comments.

In this edition of The Barclays Viewpoint: 🛡️ Matt Hammerstein explores how the UK can turn its defence tech strengths into investment, growth and scale. ☀️ Jason Constable and Gavin Parker look at how businesses can prepare for hotter summers. 🏠 Roland McCormack considers how to give borrowers more meaningful choice when remortgaging. 🤖 Paul Davis explains how young jobseekers can protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated scams. 🎳 Rohan Kumar examines what August’s spending trends reveal about consumer confidence.

Britain has the ingredients to become a global Defence Tech leader. But the challenge is turning ambition and innovation into scale.   Our latest policy report found that Defence Tech firms face a set of barriers that could limit their ability to scale, including procurement challenges, skills shortages and access to growth finance.   If the UK can address those barriers, it has a significant opportunity to turn cutting-edge innovation into growth, investment and jobs.   📊 Explore the report below.

How can renewed confidence and rapid technological change deliver lasting prosperity? This edition of The Barclays Viewpoint explores the choices shaping the next phase of growth. 🤖 C.S. Venkatakrishnan argues that the real test of corporate AI strategy is how effectively it helps people adapt, not how much it automates. 🚀 Matt Hammerstein and Abdul Qureshi consider how renewed business confidence can drive productivity, innovation and long-term growth. 📈 Ravi Prasad examines why Britain’s investment recovery is uneven and why small businesses putting capital to work matters for growth. 💷 Clare Francis explores what Britain’s High Earners, Not Rich Yet reveal about income, investing and financial security. 🏦 Brad Rogoff and Jeff Meli debate whether adjusting post-crisis US bank regulation could expand market capacity.

In the latest edition of The Barclays Viewpoint, we explore the behaviours, challenges and trends shaping financial wellbeing across the UK. 💡 Seema Sachdev examines why financial confidence is about more than managing money, and how confidence helps people take action. 🤝 Sir David Holmes CBE and Kirstie Mackey OBE explore how community support and partnerships can help people move from financial survival to long-term financial stability. 🛒 Rohan Kumar reflects on the spending trends that defined the first half of 2026 and what they reveal about changing consumer priorities. 🏡 Jatin Patel explores the property trends reshaping homeownership, renting and housing expectations across the UK. 📱 Kirsty Adams highlights the growing fraud risks emerging from the subscription economy and shares practical advice to help consumers stay safe. 

In the latest edition of The Barclays Viewpoint, we explore the trends, sectors and ideas shaping growth across the UK and beyond. 📈 Abdul Qureshi explores what the UK's improving investment landscape reveals about the country's growth prospects and emerging regional innovation hubs. 💷 Clare Francis examines why Gen Z is becoming the UK's most engaged generation of investors and why financial literacy matters more than ever. 🛡️ Stuart Godden-Clark and Stuart Foster discuss why scaling the UK's defence sector depends on connecting innovation, capital and demand. 🌱 Sophie Fry explores the latest state of UK climate tech, where confidence is growing but barriers to scale remain. 🤖 Ronnie Wexler and Dominique Toublan examine how the AI boom is reshaping credit markets and testing investors' appetite for new debt issuance.