It came after the presiding judge refused to grant anonymity to 104 of the bank's employees, including former heads Bob Diamond and John Varley.

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John Varley of Barclays, whose bank has made profits and spurned government capital, acknowledged the banks' share of blame for seeking high returns from structured financial products.

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"We are pleased to see the Supreme Court has made a very clear ruling, " Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) Chief Executive John Varley said.

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It had been rumored that Barclays Chief Executive John Varley and Barclays Capital boss Bob Diamond were poised to quit the group, following in the footsteps of other recent high profile departures at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.

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It would have been embarrassing for Barclays if it were lending less to businesses than it promised the government it would do under Project Merlin, because that agreement between the big banks and the Treasury was its idea (or, more precisely, that of its previous chief executive, John Varley).

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Barclays ( BCS - news - people ) CEO John Varley and President Bob Diamond, RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester is deferring his bonus this year in an attempt to show some humility in front of a British public still angry with the behavior of the banking system.

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What is clear is that the plucky efforts by John Varley, chief executive of Barclays, in talks primarily with the Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin, to establish some kind of entente cordiale between bankers and ministers are close to collapse (see my assorted notes on all this from November 14 onwards).

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