Three cheers for GlaxoSmithKline boss Andrew Witty, who says: "I don't buy that you can be this floating entity with no allegiance to anybody but the lowest tax rate." Well said, and say it again to Barclays, reportedly threatening to take its ball and "leave" the country... more
Much has been made of Laura Wade-Gery's move from Tesco to Marks & Spencer to beef up its online offering. The stock market - that great arbiter of value - decided she was worth the equivalent of four Fernando Torres, adding £200 million to Marks' market value after her appointment was announced... more
John Varley may not be handing in his security pass to Barclays Canary Wharf headquarters for another 12 months, but he will be courted by any number of FTSE 100 companies to come and head their boardrooms before then... more
Barclays fuels growing public anger over bankers' bonuses as it reveals that it handed out shares worth more than £64 million to 10 top executives as part of their bonuses for the last five years... more
Barclays chief executive John Varley warns that Barack Obama’s plans to cut the size and limit risk-taking by banks could damage the global economic revival... more
Rebuilding Britain's banks: While most banking bosses stuggled to say the "s" word, the chief executive of Barclays, John Varley, has spent the last year saying sorry... more
Barclays revealed it lent £17 billion to UK households and business in the first half of this year — already outstripping the £11 billion target it set for the whole of 2009 ... more
No one doubts Sir Alan Sugar produces good television, but there's never been a government appointment that has prompted such ridicule — and not a little discomfort... more
John Varley declined to say anything when I suggested to him this morning that his strategy to avoid being bailed out by the Government had finally been vindicated ... more
Barclays directors received no cash bonuses last year, as they promised, but finance director Chris Lucas and Frits Seegers, head of retail and commercial banking, are in line for share awards worth £800,000 and £1.6 million respectively... more
A rescue deal hailed only months ago seems set to put the bank in the hands of Arab investors after a run on shares. Now CEO John Varley is being blamed for the humiliation ... more
The head of Barclays Bank was accused of “talking down” the housing market after claiming property prices will drop by a further 15 per cent next year... more
While Alistair Darling was fleshing out his plans to save the UK economy yesterday, Barack Obama was unveiling the team he wants to help him save the American one... more
Banking: Barclays' shareholders snapped up all of the £500 million of preferred stock that the troubled bank offered to them as an olive branch to calm the row over its controversial fundraising plans... more
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