Matthew Fitzwater

General Counsel, Group Centre Barclays

Matt is currently the Group Centre General Counsel for Barclays with responsibilities covering Litigation, Employment, Competition, Financial Crime and recently expanded to cover Commercial Innovation & Technology, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property & Cyber Security, Corporate & Treasury and Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility matters . Matt has worked at the bank since 2014. From November 2022 through June 2023, Matt served as interim Group Chief Compliance Officer for Barclays overseeing the global Compliance function. Prior to that time, he was the General Counsel for Conduct and Customer and Client Affairs overseeing all litigation, employment, competition and financial crime legal matters for the bank globally across all business lines and prior to that Matt was the Global Head of Litigation and Investigations for Barclays. Before joining Barclays, Matt was Special Counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York where he represented large financial institutions in criminal and regulatory matters. Matt is from Greenville, Ohio and graduated from The Ohio State University College of Law in 2001 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Miami University (Ohio) in 1998 with a double major in History and Political Science.