Barclays CEO Says Banks Can’t Go ‘Cold Turkey’ on Oil Clients

The chief executive of Barclays Plc characterized as unrealistic growing calls for the finance industry to abandon fossil-fuel clients. Banks “cannot go cold turkey” on the oil and gas industry, Barclays CEO CS Venkatakrishnan told Bloomberg’s Anna Edwards at the Bloomberg Sustainable Finance Forum in London on Tuesday. While Barclays’ is “very much moving from away from” coal and oil, the … Read more