Barclays Plc, under pressure to boost returns, will eliminate7,000 jobs at its investment bank, about a quarter of the total,and signaled its effort to build a global bank is over.

Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins's plan will bring thenumber of jobs to be cut across the firm by 2016 to 19,000,including the 12,000 the lender said in February it would eliminatethis year. Barclays will create a bad bank to dispose of 115billion pounds ($195 billion) of assets, including its Europeanconsumer arm. The investment bank will primarily target the U.K.and U.S., and serve fewer clients, while its Asian unit will be“more focused,” Jenkins told reporters today.

“The investment bank is too exposed to volatility infixed-income, currencies and commodities, and the group is tooexposed to volatility in the investment bank,” Jenkins, 52, toldanalysts on a conference call.