The U.K. banking giant's chief executive, Robert Diamond, resigned as a result of an interest-rate manipulation scandal.

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The bank is still searching for a CEO after Robert Diamond resigned last month amid pressure from UK regulators and lawmakers.

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Ex-Barclays CEO Robert Diamond quit in July after revelations that the bank had been involved in an international scheme to manipulate interbank lending rates.

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U.K. regulators raised issues back in 2010 about how former Barclays CEO Robert Diamond hadn't reached the level of "openness and transparency" of his predecessor.

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But Barclays was still raising the alarm a year later when former CEO Robert Diamond discussed Libor with current Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker in October 2008.

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At Barclays it was not a power grab or other internal issue but an international financial scandal that felled CEO Robert Diamond, the American-born investment banker who had headed up the London bank.

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Robert Diamond, head of Barclays PLC, said U.S. businesses could pick up the mantle but lack the confidence to start hiring because of concerns the country isn't on the right path with spending, deficits and taxes.

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These senior people have now been named by the BBC's business editor Robert Peston: Paul Tucker at the Bank of England, and Bob Diamond at Barclays.

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Robert Gannicott, Harry Winston chairman and CEO, said changes in both luxury retail and the diamond markets, as well as the need for cash, led to the decision to sell its luxury retail operation.

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