London(Reuters) - BarclaysChairmanJohn Mcfarlanesaid on Tuesday that speculation in the British press about his departure from the Bankis premature.
Mcfarlanetold attendants of the bank's annual general meeting that while he had asked the Chairmanof the bank's nomination committee, Crawford Gillies, to prepare for his eventual departure, he had only served three years of his four year term.
"You are not getting rid of me yet," he told the meeting.
(Reporting by Lawrence White, writing by Emma Rumney)
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