Investec Plc, a specialist bank, provides integrated banking and wealth management products and services to high-net-worth private, corporate, private, intermediary, government, and institutional clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates four segments: Wealth & Investment; Private Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking, and Other; and Group Investments. It offers wealth and investment services, such as investments and savings, financial planning, and pensions and retirement services to private clients, trusts, charities, intermediaries, pension schemes, and professional advisors. The company also provides specialist banking products and services comprising private client banking services, including lending, private capital, transactional banking, savings, and foreign exchange; corporate and investment banking services, such as lending, treasury and risk management, and advisory solutions, as well as institutional research, sales, and trading. In addition, it offers debt issuance, property, nominee, financing, shipping, fund and investment management, trustee, leasing, custodian, corporate secretary and director, insurance, ITES outsourcing, aircraft leasing, loan credit, MiFiD, securities, trading, mining, online trading, and merchant banking and stock broking services. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Investec Plc operates as a subsidiary of Investec Group.