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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Barclays, Bonuses and Sackings





  • This last one seems peculiar and is almost as if the £20m was always a fiction to enable the £2m to be regarded as...
that was cheap, wasn't it?

It wasn't that long ago that Barclay's investment bankers were 'given' very (very, very...) large bonuses even though the overall business was making huge losses. It seems long enough ago to imagine that observers had forgotten. This bank now sacks thousands of employees to streamline the operation.