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Barclays Names New CEO
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 9:44am | 477British banking giant Barclays (NYSE: BCS) has named Antony Jenkins, previously the head of the retail and business banking unit, its new Chief Executive Officer. Jenkins took the job with immediate effect, and he will have to hit the ground running because Barclays has been under a negative...
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Barclays Under Investigation Again
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 8:13am | 478British bank Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is under the microscope yet again after it set aside millions of pounds to cover bad decisions made selling financial products. Barclays must surely be sick of the sight of regulators and the word "investigation" following the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR...
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Former Barclays Chief Executive Diamond Remains in the Rough
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 12:01pm | 520Bob Diamond, former CEO of Barclays Bank (NYSE: BCS), has been accused of misleading a parliamentary inquiry. It is the story that doesn't want to go away. On July 2, Benzinga reported that company Chairman Marcus Agius had resigned in the middle of the bank's rate-fixing scandal. The previous...