"The idea is to have both run seven Diamond League meets, possibly even eight with a couple of a match-ups between the two throughout the year, " Wetmore addded.
In a Financial Times op-ed Monday, former Barclays CEO Martin Taylor relates a tale about the run-up to the Russian ruble crisis of 2008, when he claims that Diamond and traders he led at the then-nascent Barclays Capital dishonestly claimed certain counterparties were Swiss or American in order to get around limits on country exposure.