Bob Diamond

In July 2012, when Barclays was fined for rigging interest rates, MPs demanded arrests.

The chief executive, Bob Diamond, had to resign, but it was junior bankers who were prosecuted.

Between 2015 and 2019, 19 traders across the UK and US were convicted.

Nine went to jail.

But before that, another story's caught my eye.

But another story that caught our eye this morning, even Bob Diamond has joined the biohackers.

He stopped drinking alcohol for three years after seeing the negative impact on his fitness tracker data.

He told Bloomberg's Laura Noonan, "I don't like to think it, it, that it is compulsive, but it's very, very rare if I don't read how I slept in the first half hour of the morning." Plenty of others in the finance world, of course, in thrall to the data.

Let's hope the Kings of Leon don't follow suit.

And in UK true crime news, Bob Diamond resigned as the chief exec of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank were greedy, manipulating some interest rate systems, but they were being greedy.

I know, I know.

It's hard to believe.

And I was like, oh my God, who are these? What do I do? So I turned around and ran back to my desk and they followed me and they followed me back to my desk.

And from the hoot next to mine, it was Bob Diamond from Barclays Capital making the announcement that they were buying Lehman Brothers.

And one of the executives turns to me and he goes, you don't stand an effing chance.

And I was like, oh, my God, I'm so scared.

But by the time he's finished, they're going to need a bloody big police station as he works it all through.

Stephen Hester then brings in Bob Diamond, who's the CEO of Barclays.

So we've now got the big hitters involved.

So you think, well, this is definitely getting a result.

He's then inventing jobs with Madonna and he's bringing in her manager, Noel Gallagher.

I mean, it's an extraordinary process of people.

So we've now got Stephen Hester, we've got Bob Diamond, we've got Nike coming to the equation.

So they're going to be sponsoring one of our projects.