Roger Jenkins

In February 2018, Jenkins announced his engagement to Larissa Andrade, a Brazilian actress 29 years his junior living in Los Angeles and on 11 August 2018 they were married in Txai, Bahia, Brazil.

In 2016 he invested in a fund to acquire a cannabis cultivation facility in Northern California, and subsequently that ownership was sold.

In October 2011, it was announced that Jenkins had joined BTG Pactual as a managing partner and would sit on the bank's global management and investment committees.

In February 2010, Jenkins launched an advisory firm in Dublin, Elkstone Capital, looking at opportunities created by the Irish financial crisis. "If you are sitting in Dublin today, there are tremendous opportunities, from capital raising to restructuring to acquisitions," he said. Nonetheless, Elkstone Capital closed in December 2011 without doing any deals.

In 2009, The Guardian reported tales of a macho culture inside the Structured Capital Markets division, where, one source claimed, "the deals are so big you never say billion or million, you just say 16 bucks or 16 quid which meant billion". The same source suggested that tax avoidance "was so big it became the engine of growth for the whole of the investment banking arm".

In 2008, he played a key role raising capital for Barclays Group in June and October 2008 totaling over 9 billion pounds from amongst others, the Qatar Investment Authority, His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. He left Barclays in the summer of 2009 and in 2011 joined the Management Committee and Investment Committee of the Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual until 2013 when he resigned following the accusations made by the Serious Fraud Office.

A 2006 investigation by The Wall Street Journal, alleged that in 2003, Jenkins and his team had set up a company co-owned by Barclays and the US bank Wachovia, Augustus Funding LLC, which was incorporated in Delaware but also had a London address and British directors. Although the company had no employees, products or customers, in 2004, it registered pretax profits of $317 million from assets such as Danish mortgage securities and U.S. Treasuries, on which it paid UK taxes of $94 million.

Estimates suggested that in 2005, Jenkins earned about £40 million during the years from 2005 to 2009, making him reputedly the highest paid banker in the City of London.

The Salz report stated that between 2000 and 2011 the SCM business generated revenue of 9.5 billion pounds. (Guardian Jill Treanor).

From 1994 to 2009, he worked for Barclays in a variety of roles, including as chief executive of Barclays Capital's Private Equity Group, and from April 2008 as Executive Chairman of Investment Banking and Investment Management for the Middle East.

Jenkins married Catherine McDowell in 1980, a banker at Barclays, and had one daughter. In 1999 he married Sanela Diana Ćatić, whom he had met in the gym at the Barbican, where Roger Jenkins was living after the end of his first marriage. Diana is a Bosnian Muslim who moved to London from Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. Jenkins has said that they had "a bit of a hippy marriage". They have two children.

Jenkins worked briefly at BP after graduation in 1977 and joined Barclays as a graduate trainee in 1978. From 1982 to 1984 he was head of private placements at Barclays's investment banking division, Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW), in New York City, leaving in 1987 to work for Kleinwort Benson, where he was a Director and Co-Head of Financial Markets and he stayed for seven years. He rejoined Barclays in 1994 to set up a group advising companies on tax and regulatory management.

In his youth he was an accomplished sprinter, representing Scotland and Great Britain from 1973 to 1978 and competed at the European Games in 1974, the Commonwealth Games in 1978, and numerous internationals. He won a silver medal at the World Student Games in Rome in 1975 at 400m. Both Roger and his brother David feature prominently in the book A Life In A Day In A Year by Peter Hoffmann which describes their athletics training at Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh, and their racing careers between 1973 and 1978.

His brother David Jenkins is a convicted criminal who won a silver medal for Great Britain in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1972 Olympics, but was later convicted of drug trafficking in the United States and admitted taking steroids to win races during his athletic career, and received a 7-year federal prison sentence which he got reduced to 10 months by becoming an informant.

His brother David Jenkins was European Champion at 400m in 1971 and won a silver medal for Great Britain in the 4 x 400 relay at the 1972 Olympics. He was ranked number one in the world at 400m in 1975 but was later convicted of drug trafficking in the United States.

Roger Allan Jenkins (born 30 September 1955) is a British financier who was acquitted on 28 February 2020 by a jury at the Old Bailey, after an investigation for financial fraud that started in 2012, and was subsequently exonerated by the FCA, the banking regulator.