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Time for new leadership at Barclays and HSBC – and a new name at RBS

21 February 2020

10:00 PM

21 February 2020

10:00 PM

After a dull interlude, the big banks in their annual results season look a bit more interesting again. First to report was Barclays, where pre-tax profits were up 25 per cent to £4.4 billion but attention focused, yet again, on Chief Executive Jes Staley, whose name rarely appears in print without ‘accident-prone’ attached to it.

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