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Ashok Vaswani told Sky News Barclays had been in Britain for 326 years and it had no intention of relocating after the UK leaves the European Union. The bank chief said: “We are a British bank, we have been here for 326 years and we hope to be here for the next 326 years. “Britain has seen a lot, we’ve seen it with [the UK], we will continue to go with it. We do have about three thousand European nationals in our network, in our branches, in our trading our trading floors. “And obviously we are very committed to making sure they feel secure and that they feel they have good jobs and lives in the UK.”

SKY NEWS • GETTY Barclays is dedicated to remaining British, Ashok Vaswani said

Mr Vaswani said it would be a shame of leaving the EU would result in the UK losing its place as a financial hub. He said: “In financial services, it is only about people, and therefore out ability to get the best and the brightest to make sure financial services stays on the cutting edge is rally important. “London has been a financial capital of the world for a long period of time, it will be a shame if we lost that.” In April Barclays' Jes Staley said Britain will continue to be a global leader in financial technology.

We are a British bank Ashok Vaswani

Speaking to Bloomberg from London, Mr Staley revealed the bank would take on 2,000 new staff over the next three years. He said: “We’re going to increase our employment in the UK by hiring over the next three years roughly 2,000 new employees, particularly focused on technology. “We’ve made the decision that clearly technology is a core competency that’s extremely important for any large financial institution today and what we want to do is launch a programme to bring in house a lot of our technology development and the build out of our core infrastructure. “We’re going to be hiring 2,000 new people across the UK over the next three years and substituting contractors that we use from outside so that we control that core competency of technology.

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