30 ноября 201109:15
Barclays Bank to lay off 25% of staff
Igor Kim, who, with a number of co-investors, became the owner of Barclays Bank a month ago, started reorganizing his new business. Since the new proprietors are not prepared to make up for the bank’s losses by capital inflow as the British parent enterprise Barclays used to do every year, the bank will start with cutting down on expenses. For one, about a quarter of the employees will be made redundant, while the pay of the remaining staff will be cut by 20%, Kommersant reports. Serious personnel changes began at the bank as soon as the new owners arrived in late October, a few of Barclays’s