{"id":29842,"date":"2012-07-02T04:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29842"},"modified":"2012-07-02T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:59:04","slug":"barclays-chairman-marcus-agius-resigns-over-rate-rigging-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/barclays-chairman-marcus-agius-resigns-over-rate-rigging-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"Barclays chairman Marcus Agius resigns over rate-rigging scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Marcus Agius\u00a0has quit as chairman of\u00a0Barclays, saying he was &#8220;truly sorry&#8221; for the interest rate-rigging scandal that has dealt a &#8220;devastating blow&#8221; to the bank&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But Monday&#8217;s resignation did not puncture the political pressure on the bank with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, calling on the bank&#8217;s chief executive,\u00a0Bob Diamond, to quit and stepped up his efforts to force the government to set up a Leveson-style inquiry into banks by bringing forward an amendment in parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/jul\/02\/barclays-chairman-marcus-agius-resigns\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Marcus Agius\u00a0has quit as chairman of\u00a0Barclays, saying he was &#8220;truly sorry&#8221; for the interest rate-rigging scandal that has dealt a &#8220;devastating blow&#8221; to the bank&#8217;s reputation. But Monday&#8217;s resignation did not puncture the political pressure on the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29843,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions\/29843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}