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Barclays has a policy that directors should own shares worth four times their salaries, which Staley achieved, as his salary amounted to £1.2m. However, his total remuneration package, including his salary, a fixed pay allowance to avoid an EU cap on bonuses, annual bonuses of up to £2.1m and a long-term incentive plan of £3.2m, was worth £ ...
The Bank of Canada was established through the Bank of Canada Act of 1934 and the banks relinquished their right to issue their own currency. In 1956, Barclays Bank (Canada) was acquired by Imperial Bank of Canada, a predecessor of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, for 10% of the capital of Imperial.
He started his banking career in the London office of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) as a clerk in 1962, and moved from London to Canada in 1967 when he was promoted to management trainee at bank's main office.
Founded as the Union Bank, the name changed to the Union Bank of Montreal about 1841. Closed. [171] Union Bank of Newfoundland 1854 1894 Failed. [172] Union Bank of Prince Edward Island 1860 1883 Merged into the Bank of Nova Scotia. [173] United Empire Bank of Canada: 1906 1911 Founded as the Pacific Bank of Canada before renaming in 1906.
He joined the main Barclays board on 5 June 1998 and was group finance director from 2000 until the end of 2003. [citation needed] On 1 January 2004, Varley became group deputy chief executive, and on 1 September 2004 he succeeded Matthew Barrett as group chief executive of Barclays. His annual salary from Barclays was £1,075,000. [6]
In his retirement, he was Chancellor of Queen's University from 1924 to 1930 and was president of two financial institutions, the Barclays Bank of Canada and the Crown Life Insurance Company from 1928 until his death in 1937.
He joined Barclays in 2016 as chief risk officer, before becoming head of global markets and co-president of BBPLC in October 2020. [1] Venkat left JPMorgan for Barclays in early 2016, and was among the first people Staley hired when he became CEO of the bank. [7] Venkat was initially the bank's chief risk officer. [8]
In September 2014, he was appointed chairman of Barclays and joined the board with effect from 1 January 2015. [9] [10] He was appointed executive chairman of Barclays in July 2015 until a permanent replacement could be found for their departing chief executive Antony Jenkins. [11] He is also chairman of TheCityUK.