FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 record photo, Barclays CEO Jes Staley participates successful the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit astatine Union West connected successful New York. Britains fiscal watchdog is investigating whether Barclays main enforcement Jes Staley disclosed afloat details of his narration with the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, the slope said Thursday Feb. 13, 2020. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 record photo, Barclays CEO Jes Staley participates successful the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit astatine Union West connected successful New York. Britains fiscal watchdog is investigating whether Barclays main enforcement Jes Staley disclosed afloat details of his narration with the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, the slope said Thursday Feb. 13, 2020. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) (2019 Invision)

LONDON – The American main enforcement of Barclays slope stepped down Monday pursuing a study by the U.K. regulators into his past links with the precocious financier and enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Jes Staley said helium volition contention the preliminary conclusions, which were shared with him and the slope connected Friday. The study by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority examined the mode Staley characterized his narration with Epstein to Barclays successful his relation arsenic Epstein’s backstage banker successful a erstwhile job

“It should beryllium noted that the probe makes nary findings that Mr. Staley saw, oregon was alert of, immoderate of Mr. Epstein’s alleged crimes, which was the cardinal question underpinning Barclays’ enactment for Mr. Staley pursuing the apprehension of Mr. Epstein successful the summertime of 2019,” the slope said successful a statement.

C.S. Venkatakrishnan volition instrumentality implicit arsenic radical main executive.

Epstein killed himself astatine a Manhattan national lockup successful August 2019, a period aft his apprehension connected enactment trafficking charges.

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