Barclays top execs handed shares worth £39m

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Barclays shares worth a total of £39m have been awarded to nine executives as part of their long-term remuneration packages.

The BBC reports the investment bank's boss Rich Ricci was given £17.5m in shares in long-term bonus and has sold them all. The bank said Ricci's shares were an accumulation of remuneration over a number of years. Chief executive Antony Jenkins (pictured) got £5.6m in shares and sold £2.9m of them. However, he waived his bonus for 2012 after the bank was hit with fines for payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling and its part in the LIBOR rigging scandal. Barclays said the share distribution related to incentive schemes going back several years, with some dating from 2007. The...

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