Jes Staley loses legal case over City ban for misleading watchdog over Epstein links

<p>Result upholds Financial Conduct Authority’s lifetime ban on former Barclays CEO holding senior City post</p><p>The former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has lost a legal challenge against the UK regulator, leaving him banned from the City for life for misleading the watchdog over his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>The case centred on a letter that Barclays sent to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2019, which declared that the pair “did not have a close relationship” and that Staley’s last contact with Epstein was “well before” he joined Barclays four years earlier in 2015.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/26/jes-staley-loses-legal-case-over-city-ban-for-misleading-watchdog-over-epstein-links">Continue reading...</a>