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Barclays New CEO Venkatakrishnan Reshuffles Bank’s Top Ranks

New Barclays CEO Reshuffles Leadership Roles at Top of Lender

Barclays Plc’s new chief executive officer C.S. Venkatakrishnan reshuffled some of the bank’s key leadership roles, as he makes his mark on the lender in his second week atop the bank. 

Paul Compton has been named sole global head of the corporate and investment bank, the bank said on Tuesday. Stephen Dainton becomes co-head of global markets alongside Adeel Khan, who was recently global head of credit.

Barclays New CEO Venkatakrishnan Reshuffles Bank’s Top Ranks

The changes come after Venkatakrishnan, known as Venkat inside the bank, took over as CEO on Nov. 1 after former CEO Jes Staley stepped down amid a regulatory probe into his relationship with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Compton, an Australian operations and IT specialist who was also seen as a candidate to replace Staley, was named global head of banking last year. 

“We will work closely together on not only delivering an outstanding product and service set for our customers and clients, but in accelerating our growth and shareholder value,” Venkat said in the statement.

Last month, Barclays reported a record third quarter in investment banking which helped offset more muted earnings in its trading unit. In his previous role as global head of markets, Venkat planned to boost areas such as European rates trading which has been under-performing, Bloomberg News has reported

As part of the restructuring, Alistair Currie becomes global head of consumer banking and payments and Ashok Vaswani, will take on a new role as chief digital strategy officer. Both will report to Venkat.

Other changes include: 

  • JF Astier and John Miller will become global co-heads of investment banking
  • David Farrow takes on the role of head of corporate banking on an interim basis

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