Venkatakrishnan's intervention underscores the pressure that the British bank is under to protect its U.S. investment banking franchise.
Venkatakrishnan promised during the meeting to invest in the investment banking business to boost morale, the sources said.
Miller left Barclays to join Jefferies last month, while Barclays only announced a new role for Astier this week, naming him global head of financial sponsors.
Still, the exodus that Venkatakrishnan and other Barclays executives have been trying to stem has continued apace.
But it was its consumer, cards and payments division, rather than investment banking, that led the charge.
Persons:
C.S, Venkatakrishnan, dealmakers, Cathal Deasy, Morgan Stanley, Taylor Wright, Marco Valla, Deasy, John Miller, Jean, Francois Astier, Miller, Jefferies, Jim Rossman, Christopher Ludwig, Pete Contrucci, Evan Rothenberg, Daniel Kerstein, Contrucci, Rothenberg, Kerstein, Milana Vinn, Abigail Summerville, David Carnevali, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Anirban Sen, Greg Roumeliotis, Christopher Cushing
Organizations:
YORK, Barclays, Citigroup Inc, UBS Group AG, Jefferies Financial Group Inc, Reuters, Credit Suisse Group AG, UBS, Lazard Ltd, Credit Suisse, Svea, Thomson
Locations:
Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, United States, New York, Rhode Island