- Bob Diamond and Hans-Joerg Rudloff, Chief executive, and chairman, Barclays Capital

The column inches given over to heaping praise on Barclays Capital will have accounted for a rainforest but how many more trees would have been felled if it was a full service investment bank? For all its success and significant contribution to the profits of parent Barclays Group, the investment bank has eschewed pure M&A advisory banking, cash equities and equity research. Perhaps that is because chief executive Bob Diamond and chairman Hans-Joerg Rudloff have their career roots in fixed income.