Barclays appoints Antony Jenkins new CEO
Softly spoken Mr Jenkins, brought in six years ago to turn around the bank’s credit card business, replaces Bob Diamond, who built up Barclays’s thriving investment bank but resigned as chief executive in July after the bank admitted manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate.
Mr Jenkins was long seen as a frontrunner for the top job despite his lack of experience on the investment banking front - a big profit driver for Barclays, though the division was at the heart of the firm’s recent troubles.
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“We have made serious mistakes in recent years and clearly failed to keep pace with our stakeholders’ expectations,” said Mr Jenkins in a statement.
Mr Jenkins, an Oxford University graduate who started his career at Barclays before moving to Citi in 1989, added that repairing the damage would “take time”.
Barclays said Mr Jenkins would receive an annual salary of £1.1m, plus up to £2.75m in annual incentive awards plus long-term incentive awards of up to 400 per cent of salary.