Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays PLC, announced the appointment of Yvette Hollingsworth as a managing director and head of financial crime. In this regard, her responsibilities will include overseeing the firm’s compliance efforts in anti-money laundering, sanctions, and anti-corruption. She will report to Stephen Morse, head of compliance.

Hollingsworth joins the firm after an eleven-year career in the investment banking industry most recently as a managing director at Citigroup in New York, where she was the North America regional head for anti-money laundering for the Institutional Clients Group. Prior to this, Hollingsworth was a senior examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

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