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...Bob Haslett The Colombian capital of Bogotá was the world’s most congested city last year, with drivers spending an average of 132 hours in peak-hour traffic, according to TomTom Traffic Index data....
...“The carmakers will be like the cell-phone handset providers, only worse,” says Bob Lutz, former vice-chairman of GM. “Module production will be as profitable as lead-acid car batteries: lousy....
...Bob Gach, global managing director of Accenture’s capital markets practice, says: “The industry has been slow and inconsistent in adopting digital technologies, particularly because the larger investment...
...Bob Diamond, the then head of Barclays’ investment bank, also turned to Mr Klein to advise him on his acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ US operations....
...Not long after Barclays bought Lehman Brothers’ US brokerage arm at the height of the financial crisis, Bob Diamond said he had snapped up the “crown jewels” of the failed investment bank....
...That triggered a political uproar, which ultimately led to the departure of Bob Diamond, the then Barclays chief executive, under pressure from regulators....
...Dubbed “Saint Antony” for his promise to clean up the bank’s culture after replacing Bob Diamond in the wake of the Libor manipulation scandal, Mr Jenkins has struggled to win over sceptics in the media...
...Mr McEwan is one example; another is Antony Jenkins, the retail banker who at Barclays took over from Bob Diamond, the investment banker who was forced out by regulators in the wake of the bank’s settlement...
...Sir John, who supported some of the large pay packages Barclays awarded to previous top executives – including former chief executive Bob Diamond – will be retiring from the board later this year, after...
...Slim-line investment bank By cutting the investment bank’s assets in half, Mr Jenkins is in essence burying the vision of his predecessor Bob Diamond to turn Barclays into a global “bulge bracket” powerhouse...
...Bob De Groot, a former Citigroup stalwart who joined the French bank in 2010, has been suspended in recent weeks, according to two people close to the situation....
...There are no more meetings planned for the chief dealers subgroup – whose membership is falling victim to the widening probe, with Bob De Groot, BNP Paribas’ head of spot trading, on Thursday the latest...
...Additional reporting by Daniel Schäfer in London...
...Bob Diamond alleged in 2012, when he was chief executive at Barclays, that he and Paul Tucker, then a deputy governor, had talked about banks understating their borrowing costs when they participated in...
...Mr Jenkins, who took over in 2012 when Bob Diamond was ousted over the Libor rate manipulation scandal, has focused on cleaning up Barclays’ culture and improving profitability with a plan to cut £1.7bn...
...At that time, Barclays released an internal email written by Bob Diamond, then its chief executive, that appeared to suggest Paul Tucker, the former deputy governor of the central bank, had known that Barclays...
...At that time, UK bank Barclays released an internal email written by Bob Diamond, then chief executive, that appeared to suggest Paul Tucker, the former deputy governor of the central bank, had known that...
...Bob Elfring, the bank’s European co-head of corporate and investment banking, said they did not have a formal monitoring system for the hours employees worked....
...The scandal prompted a shake-up of senior management at Barclays last year, including the departure of Bob Diamond, its chief executive....
...Bob Diamond is considering backing a new European trading platform in a second possible investment by the former Barclays chief executive who was forced out last year following the Libor manipulation scandal...
...BNP became the latest bank to be embroiled in the scandal as it suspended Bob De Groot, its global head of spot trading....
...Mr Lucas had been considering leaving Barclays for the past few years on health grounds, but delayed the move after Bob Diamond resigned as chief executive last year, according to people with knowledge of...
...One of its mistakes under former chief executive Bob McDonald – who AG Lafley was rehired to replace last year – was lifting prices to levels consumers were not willing to pay....
...Analysts said the results showed how Barclays’ business focus remained mostly unchanged from the era of its controversial former chief executive Bob Diamond....
...Reporting team: Daniel Schäfer, Patrick Jenkins, Mike Mackenzie, Kara Scannell, Alex Barker, Camilla Hall, Caroline Binham and Delphine Strauss...
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