The 2014 Barclays Annual General Meeting will be held today at 11:00am BST, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Barclays Chairman, Sir David Walker, will make the following comments at the Meeting:

"In taking stock today, we do so against the context of the difficult condition of your bank in 2012. Today we have a strong board and management team, and while we have much to do, we are making headway. Your bank has several outstanding businesses that are consistently delivering strong performance. There has been impressive progress embedding Barclays' new purpose and values throughout the bank. The new code of conduct and the balanced scorecard, ensuring that we assess our performance in the light of our values, have been ingrained across the whole company. Barclays today is doing business in the right way."

Barclays Group Chief Executive Officer, Antony Jenkins will present at the Meeting and provide a brief trading update on the first quarter of 2014:

"We have seen the benefits of being a diversified bank in the first quarter with the businesses outside the Investment Bank delivering a resilient performance, compared to the same period last year. In the Investment Bank, our Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) business continued to face many of the challenges seen in the second half of 2013 with a significant year-on-year reduction in FICC income, reflecting difficult market conditions and a strong comparative performance for Q1 last year. Our Equities and Investment Banking businesses performed broadly in-line with last year.

A number of actions are being taken to improve the performance of the Group, with our strategic cost management program starting to provide a material benefit across all businesses in Q1. This has helped to provide an offset to the income performance in FICC and, compared to Q1 of the prior year, is expected to result in a small reduction in adjusted profit before tax for the Group. On the 8th of May we will update the market on further actions we are taking to better position both the Group and the Investment Bank to deliver improved and sustainable returns for our shareholders given the regulatory and operating environment."

Barclays will announce its Q1 2014 Interim Management Statement on Tuesday 6 May 2014 at 07:00am BST. A live conference call and webcast facility will follow at 08.30am on barclays.com/investorrelations

Barclays will provide a Group Strategy Update on Thursday 8 May 2014 for institutional investors and analysts at 10:00am BST. The presentation and webcast will also be available on the day at barclays.com/investorrelations

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