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Barclays appoints new chief operating officers
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 1, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 1, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Barclays appoints Craig Bright and Anne Marie Darling as co-COOs, while Alistair Currie departs. Robert Swaak joins Barclays Bank UK Plc board.
LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays on Tuesday said chief operating officer Alistair Currie will leave the bank, to pursue roles on the boards of other companies.
The bank said Craig Bright, its chief information officer, and former Goldman Sachs banker Anne Marie Darling would assume the role of group co-chief operating officers, as well as heading Barclays Execution Services, the lender's back-office service company.
Barclays separately announced former ABN AMRO banker Robert Swaak would join the board of its domestic unit Barclays Bank UK Plc, as a non executive director.
(Reporting By Lawrence White, Editing by Iain Withers)
Alistair Currie, the chief operating officer, will leave Barclays to pursue roles on the boards of other companies.
Craig Bright, the chief information officer, and Anne Marie Darling, a former Goldman Sachs banker, will assume the role of group co-chief operating officers.
Barclays announced that Robert Swaak, a former ABN AMRO banker, would join the board of its domestic unit, Barclays Bank UK Plc, as a non-executive director.
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