Barclays PLC (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS) is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. 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 31 December 2010 it had total assets of US$2.33 trillion, the fourth-largest of any bank worldwide (after BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and HSBC).

Barclays is a universal bank and is organised within two business 'clusters': Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth and Investment Management; and Retail and Business Banking. The Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth and Investment Management cluster comprises three business units: Corporate banking; Investment banking; and Wealth and investment management. The Retail and Business Banking cluster comprises four business units: Africa Retail and Business Banking; Barclaycard (credit card and loan provision); Europe Retail and Business Banking; and UK Retail and Business Banking.

Shaili Chopra is the Senior Editor and Lead Female Anchor at ET Now, the Economic Times Business News Channel. Shaili anchors the primetime shows and key interviews.

Shaili Chopra was born in Jalandhar on 21 July 1981 in Punjab to Anil & Suman Chopra. Father Anil Chopra is a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force in the rank of Air Marshal. In 1998, Shaili finished her schooling from Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute,New Delhi. Shaili finished her master's degree in Broadcast and Television from 2002 batch, The Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Her writings and poetry are also published in Times of India, Indian Express, Pioneer, among various other magazines and websites like The South Asian Women's Forum and even an anti war news blog.

Shaili Chopra was awarded the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism at the Indian Express RNG Awards 2012.

Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ（小野 洋子）, Ono Yōko^?, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront in her music which prefigured New Wave music and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.

Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. The name "Yoko" means "ocean child". Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after and Yoko met her father when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.