Barclays has struggled in the wake of the financial crisis with a string of misconduct issues and an underperforming investment banking division. However, a shift towards retail banking and efforts to change the bank’s culture are making it a more attractive credit prospect.
Filippo Alloatti, Senior Credit Analyst, and Leon Kamhi, Head of Responsibility, outline the engagement with Barclays, identifying several key issues that the bank needed to resolve: chair and CEO succession, board composition, employee conduct, alignment of pay, performance and portfolio strategy, with a particular focus on the restructuring necessary to ensure the investment banking division would achieve economic returns.
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