Governance and compliance

Sustainability is one of the foundation stones of Barclays strategy and is managed within a framework of internal control, governance and risk-management processes.

The Group Executive Committee is responsible for Barclays sustainability strategy. The Group Chief Executive has primary responsibility for the implementation of our strategy throughout Barclays, supported by the Group Executive Committee.

The Brand and Reputation Committee’s role is to identify and manage issues that could have a significant impact on Barclays reputation. They met throughout 2008 to discuss reputational issues such as the situation in Zimbabwe, payment protection insurance and the effect of the economic downturn on businesses throughout the world.

We have a Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) forum which monitors progress on embedding TCF principles across all retail and wholesale businesses globally.