Barclays: Releasing £39m bonus details on Budget day was 'a mistake'

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Ashok Vaswani, chief executive of retail and business at Barclays, has admitted that 2012 was a "very difficult year" for the bank, and said the decision to release details of staff's £38.5m bonus details on Budget day was a "mistake" but claimed it was not an attempt to bury the news.

Barclays - which was this week named and shamed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as attracting the most complaints of any financial institution - was last year mired in the LIBOR rigging sa...

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