Nigel Higgins said to have given assurances about CEO days after child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019
The Barclays chair Nigel Higgins’s assurances that Jes Staley had “no particular relationship” with Jeffrey Epstein, days after the child sex offender’s death in 2019, convinced the City regulator that there was no reason to investigate the bank’s chief executive, a court has heard.
Jonathan Davidson, a former director of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), made the comments during a hearing of Staley’s legal challenge against the UK regulator on Wednesday.
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