Barclays PLC (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS) is a global financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As of 2010, it is the world's 10th-largest banking and financial services group and 21st-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America and around 48 million customers. As of 30 June 2010 it had total assets of €1.94 trillion, the third-largest of any bank worldwide (after BNP Paribas and HSBC).
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Campaign Finance
$3,451,809 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Bundled Contributions
Money raised by the firm from multiple donors on behalf of the recipient. The firm's own contributions are not included.Recipient Lobbyist Amount Mitt Romney Patrick Durkin $927,160 Romney Victory Inc Patrick Durkin $184,630
Lobbying
$18,167,500 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
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Lobbying on Behalf of Barclays
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Barclays $15,810,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Banking,
- Finance,
- Taxes,
- Retirement,
- Defense,
- Housing,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Trade,
- Commodities,
- Bankruptcy
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.4173 Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 H.R.3915 Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 S.2452 Home Ownership Preservation and Protection Act of 2007 H.R.3221 Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2008 H.R.3185 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act of 2007 H.R.3765 Defined Contribution Plan Fee Transparency Act of 2007 S.2473 Defined Contribution Fee Disclosure Act of 2007 H.R.3283 Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act S.1691 Comprehensive Derivatives Regulation Act of 2009 H.R.225 Emergency Homeownership and Equity Protection Act
Regulations
Mentioned in 450 dockets; Submitted to 6 docketsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "Barclays" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
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Advisory Committees
1 person on 1 committeeData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "Barclays" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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