“What I love about this business,” he says, “is that it’s constantly changing – and you have to change too. As soon as you start telling old codger stories about the good old days, you’ve had it.”
Harkness was elevated to vice-chairman of Barclays Capital in February, a promotion that chief executive Robert Diamond said reflected Harkness’s “multi-faceted” role both with clients and in the firm’s government bond business.
Certainly there’s been no shortage of variation in Harkness’s career.
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