Barclays' CEO investigated after trying to 'identify' whistleblower

Jes Staley, Barclays’ Chief Executive, is being investigated by regulators over apparent attempts to uncover the identity of a whistleblower last year.

The whistleblower, The Guardian reports, raised, “amongst other issues . . . concerns of a personal nature about the senior employee, Mr Staley’s knowledge of and role in dealing with those issues at a previous employer, and the appropriateness of the recruitment process followed on this occasion by Barclays”.