Barclays senior executive Art Mbanefo is leaving the bank following a major shakeup

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Barclays CEO Jes Staley.

• Art Mbanefo, the deputy of former Barclays investment banking chief Tim Throsby, is leaving the British bank, according to people familiar with the matter.
• Throsby left Barclays last week as part of a broader management shakeup.

Art Mbanefo, the deputy of former Barclays investment banking chief Tim Throsby, is leaving the British bank, according to a person familiar with the matter and confirmed by a Barclays spokesman.

Throsby left Barclays last week as part of a broader management shakeup.

Mbanefo headed of one of the bank's most important units, the Firmwide Resource Management group, or FiRM, and was chief investment officer of Barclays International.

The Wall Street Journal has said that "Mbanefo's job is to squeeze capital out of the unit that can be redeployed to juice up returns."

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