Remaking A Bank

A British bank with a three-century history makes its presence felt on Wall Street in just over one decade. So, what now?

September 8, 2008

Outside of Barclays Capital's fourth-floor boardroom in Midtown Manhattan hang two flags, one US and the other British. It is a nod both to the more-than-three-century-old bank's UK roots and its plans for a dramatic global expansion, plans that include Wall Street. The man behind Barclays' global push, Robert Diamond, almost took another career route: academia, following in the footsteps of his mother and father. He revealed that and more during a recent interview with IDD.

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