News Summary: Barclays appoints compliance chief
News Summary: Barclays appoints ex-regulator Hector Sants as new head of compliance
CLEANING HOUSE: Barclays has appointed the former chief of Britain's financial regulator to the new role of head of compliance at the scandal-hit U.K. bank.
ABOUT THE JOB: Hector Sants is switching sides from heading the Financial Services Authority to overseeing all compliance activities in all regions in which the London-based bank conducts business.
ABOUT BARCLAYS: British and U.S. regulators earlier this year fined the bank a record 290 million pounds ($467 million) for manipulating a key interbank lending rate known as LIBOR.
