Barclay's Diamond Offers an Optimistic Vision

Barclays Group CEO, Robert Diamond

(Beijing) – A calm, confident Robert Diamond discussed financial restructuring in Europe and economic options for the Chinese government during a June 14 interview – 13 days before the British bank where he serves as CEO, Barclays Group, was fined for manipulating interbank lending rates.
 
Diamond gave no hint of the trouble brewing at Barclays, where from 2005 to 2008 he headed the bank division linked to what regulators say was a scheme to fix the benchmark London Interbank Offered Rate and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate.