Top city banker gets £22m pay package

A banker at Barclays netted £22m (€32.5m) in salary, shares and bonuses last year and owns stock in the group worth nearly £65m (€96m), it was revealed today.

Bob Diamond, head of investment banking at Barclays, became one of Europe’s highest-paid bankers after receiving the multi-million pound pay package, which dwarfed even chief executive John Varley’s salary and bonus scoop.