Abigail with attitude: The hypocrisy of Jenkins revisited

After my March column had been published, I suffered a pang of writer’s remorse. Had I been too harsh when I criticized the “crony capitalist culture” at Barclays’ investment bank and accused group chief executive Antony Jenkins of hypocrisy?

“Another thing that irks me,” I wrote, “is that, despite much pontificating about changing the culture of the investment bank, the top managers are still the old guard. A complete change of culture? Please, don’t talk nonsense.” My writer’s remorse was assuaged, however, when the Salz review  was published in early April. This was a voluminous review commissioned last summer after the bank was fined some £290 million for manipulating the Libor rate. It was put together by Anthony Salz, a Rothschild vice-chairman, and cost £17 million to produce.

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