Should he stay or should he go now? Robert Diamond is a talented businessman who built Barclays Capital almost from scratch into a global investment banking powerhouse.
But the Barclays chief executive is now at the centre of a financial and political firestorm following a regulatory investigation that showed traders and managers at Barclays Capital manipulated the main UK market reference rate. Shares in the UK bank fell 16% on Thursday. It is hard to see how he can stay.