
Barclays Chair told FCA Epstein-Staley ties did not need board review in 2019
By Stefania Spezzati, Iain Withers and Sam TobinLONDON (Reuters) -Barclays chairman Nigel Higgins believed the bank’s former CEO Jes Staley’s ties with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein did not warrant a board discussion in the summer of 2019 after Britain’s financial regulator inquired over the matter, according to court documents. Staley, who took to the witness box on Monday an ...