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(Reuters) - Barclays Plc (BARC.L) said on Thursday that Nigel Higgins, the deputy chairman of Rothschild & Co (ROTH.PA), would succeed John McFarlane as chairman on May 2 next year when he retires after serving his four-year term. Higgins will join the Barclays Board as a Non-Executive Director on March 1, 2019 and take over as chairman in May after the AGM, the bank said in a statement. “In Nigel Higgins we have found an ideal candidate. He is a hugely respected banker, a strategic thinker, someone with extensive international experience, and he has a strong positive leadership style,” said Crawford Gillies, who led the process to appoint a successor to McFarlane.
Barclays, one of Britain’s biggest banks, has been subject to radical transformation in recent years and has faced uncertainty over its leadership, mainly due to regulatory scrutiny of chief executive Jes Staley’s treatment of a whistleblower, Since taking over as CEO in December 2015, Staley has pushed an investment banking-led strategy that has drawn criticism from some shareholders and been the target of a campaign retro santa and rudolph cufflinks pair by activist investor Edward Bramson, Bramson’s Sherborne Investors (SIGC.L) holds a 5.4 percent stake in the bank and was in talks with Barclays earlier this year about replacing McFarlane as part of an overhaul..
Sherborne told 2018’s AGM in May “you are not getting rid of me yet.” When he retires next year he will have served his full four-year term. “Succeeding John McFarlane, who has done such a sterling job during a period of great change at Barclays, is a huge honor.. I am totally committed to helping Barclays and its people continue to develop and progress,” Higgins said. Barclays said in its statement Higgins has extensive experience of banking and financial services, gained through a 36-year career at Rothschild.
It added he had a strong track record as a strategic adviser to multiple major corporations and governments, a wealth of experience in building teams and culture on an international scale, and in growing businesses, Sherborne is a specialist “turnaround” fund that wants Barclays to improve its financial strength and competitive position, The bank last week reported third quarter profit before tax of 1.6 billion pounds ($2.07 billion), excluding litigation and conduct costs, above the 1.33 billion pounds expected by analysts polled retro santa and rudolph cufflinks pair by the bank..
(Reuters) - Canada’s auto sales slid for the seventh straight month in October as demand for new cars waned with rising interest rates. Total auto sales were 161,125 units, down 1.9 percent from a year earlier. “Consumer .. confidence does not seem to have extended to big ticket items like vehicles that are more sensitive to interest rate increases,” said David Adams, president of Global Automakers of Canada (GAC), an industry body. The Bank of Canada raised interest rates for the fifth time in 15 months in October, while reiterating that more rate hikes will follow as it looks to meet its inflation target.
General Motors Co (GM.N), the country’s biggest carmaker, edged out Ford Motor Co (F.N) in selling the most number of vehicles in October, GM’s sales were, however, down 12.9 percent for the month, Fiat Chrysler (FCAU.N), among the top four carmakers, recorded a 14.8 percent drop in sales from last year, In contrast, Toyota’s sales jumped 9.9 percent, Ford F-Series pick-up truck was the retro santa and rudolph cufflinks pair best-selling vehicle, while Honda Civic took the top position for passenger cars, according to GAC..
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) - Thousands of Google employees around the world briefly walked off their jobs on Thursday to protest the company’s response to sexual harassment and demand that the world’s largest search engine address rising concerns about workplace inequality. The protests took place in waves, beginning in Asia and then streaming across Europe and North America, with the final wave occurring at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The protests, which drew Google contract workers as well as employees, followed a New York Times report last week that Google in 2014 gave a $90 million exit package to a senior vice president, Andy Rubin, after he was accused of sexual harassment.
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