Barclays CEO goes

Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond resigned today, the biggest scalp in a financial markets scandal that has ripped through the bank’s senior management and sown the seeds for a new investigation into Britain’s banking sector. Jerry del Missier, appointed only last month as chief operating officer, resigned hours after Diamond left and a day after the chairman announced he would step down. The bank released documents saying that in 2008 del Missier was responsible for ordering traders to report dishonestly low borrowing rates because he had mistakenly concluded that the Bank of England had told Barclays to do so. would be paid to investors as a return on their investment.