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...annual meeting to question the board over its support of Jes Staley, its former chief executive that directors continued to back despite revelations about his close friendship with deceased sex offender Jeffrey...
...“Higgins has to be asked serious questions about his judgment at this point.”...
...meeting to question the board over its support of Staley, who directors continued to back before his resignation in November 2021 despite revelations about his close friendship with deceased sex offender Jeffrey...
...sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Jeffrey Epstein over a four-year period with content that included unexplained terms such as “snow white”, according to people familiar with the correspondence between...
...Some investors have privately criticised the £2.4m in pay awarded to the departing chief executive, who resigned this month following a probe into his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...Kingman will rejoin his former colleague and Barclays chair Nigel Higgins on the board....
...At the time, the Barclays board, led by chair Nigel Higgins, continued to back Staley and said it was “disappointed” by the outcome....
...with guests Jamie Fiore Higgins, an ex-Goldman Sachs senior employee who calls for independent HR functions to ensure staff are treated fairly, and my colleague Andrew Hill....
...Liontrust non-executive directors Emma Howard Boyd and Quintin Price have quit over a row about the chair’s 12-year tenure on the board....
...In Double or Nothing (HarperCollins, £20), Kim Sherwood is the latest in a series of authors including Jeffrey Deaver, William Boyd and Sebastian Faulks to revive 007....
...Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the region’s biggest pro-UK political force, the Democratic Unionist party, hailed it as “a sign of political maturity that people who aspire to another way are here”....
...In sentiments echoed by politicians of all sides across the region and in Ireland, Michael D Higgins, Ireland’s president, said Trimble had earned a “distinguished and deserved place in our history books...
...Staley resigned by mutual agreement following a regulatory investigation into his description of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...A rough timetable for Mr Staley’s departure was in place before Britain’s top financial regulators recently launched an investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile financier....
...A spotlight now shines on Nigel Higgins, who took over from McFarlane as chair and has backed Staley throughout the scandal....
...Barclays chair Nigel Higgins has continued to back Staley but has started a search for his successor, the Financial Times has reported....
...Why did Leon Black pay $158m to Jeffrey Epstein?...
...“It has been roughly a year since we had a meeting with the chairman, Mr Higgins....
...Activist investor Edward Bramson has called on Barclays’ board to withdraw its “extremely ill-advised” support for chief executive Jes Staley after UK regulators started a probe into his relationship with Jeffrey...
...with deceased paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein....
...In April 2015, while sailing around the Caribbean, Jes Staley dropped anchor at Little St James, the private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile financier....
...Jeffrey Epstein was a vile and irredeemable sexual predator. If Jes Staley’s relationship with the financier was friendly, that was a mistake....
...Chairman Nigel Higgins is preparing to kick off the search for his successor, amid a probe by UK regulators into Mr Staley’s relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein....
...Nevertheless, the Barclays board, led by chairman Nigel Higgins, has stated Mr Staley “retains the full confidence of the board”....
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