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Barclays CIO to step down

Pete Swabeyby Pete Swabey

The chief information officer of Barclays Bank’s retail division is to resign, the bank revealed yesterday.

Bob Rickert, CIO of Barclays’ global retail and commercial banking arm, intends to "pursue other opportunities".

Rickert began his career working for IBM, and was formerly in charge of IT at US bank Keycorp.

Pete Swabey

Pete Swabey

Pete was Editor of Information Age and head of technology research for Vitesse Media plc from 2005 to 2013, before moving on to be Senior Editor and then Editorial Director at The Economist Intelligence...

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