Barclays pays more than €27m in shares to its bosses weeks after posting €2bn loss

Barclays has paid out more than £20m (€27.6m) in shares to its top bosses just weeks after reporting a bottom line loss of nearly £2bn (€2.76bn) for 2017.

It included a total of £1.7 million in share bonuses for 2017, awarded to nine individuals including chief executive Jes Staley, finance director Tushar Morzaria and chief operating officer Paul Compton.