LONDON: Barclays Plc Chief Executive Bob Diamond quit with immediate effect on Tuesday over an interest rate-rigging scandal, becoming the highest profile victim so far in a probe that spans a dozen major banks across the world.
Britain's third largest bank said that outgoing chairman Marcus Agius who himself announced his departure a day earlier would lead the search for a new executive.
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