Barclays: Staley stays the course

Barclays CEO has to deliver now he has the bank the way he says he wants it to be.

What should be the verdict on Jes Staley

At one point the Barclays chief executive appeared to be lurching from one crisis to another, whether it was falling for an email prankster pretending to be his chairman or taking it upon himself to intervene in a whistleblowing case that saw him reprimanded by his board and may lead to yet worse from the UK authorities.

But reporting annual results in February, Staley was able to be bullish, telling one TV interviewer that he looked forward to running Barclays for years to come.

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