The CEO of Barclays Bank, Antony Jenkins, accepted his first bonus since taking office three years ago despite a sharp drop in profits at the investment arm, and the prospect of a fine for for rigging foreign exchange markets.<br /><br /> The British bank announced an adjusted pre-tax profit of 5.5 billion pounds last year, up from 4.9 on the previous year and slightly better than analysts’ forecasts. <br /><br /> But when charges and provision for restructuring costs are taken into account pretax profits fell 21 percent to 2.3 billion pounds. <br /><br /> The bank has also set aside 750 million pounds for future fines.<br /><br /> In November UK and US regulators fined six banks a total of 2.6 billion pounds for trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates.
