Dutchman Frits Seegers, the UK-based Barclays’ banker tipped to lead the retail sector of a merged Barclays ABN Amro combine, is at his desk at 6am and doesn’t go home until 9pm, he says in an interview with the Volkskrant today. Rarely back in his home country, Seegers is still a supporter of Amsterdam’s Ajax football club and does miss having a beer on a pavement café in the sun.