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Jes Staley

American banker; ran JPMorgan’s private bank and led Barclays from 2015 to 2021.

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  1. CEO of Barclays 2015–2021
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Staley v FCA, Upper Tribunal

  1. 26 Jun 2025 Sanctioned by Financial Conduct Authority: banned from senior management roles in financial services and fined £1.1 million for approving a misleading letter to the regulator about his relationship with Epstein 12The finding is about what Staley told the regulator, not about any crime.

American banker; ran JPMorgan’s private bank and led Barclays from 2015 to 2021.

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  • JPMorgan Chase ran the private bank; Epstein’s main contact at the bank Scholarship & press 34

sanctioned by

  • Financial Conduct Authority 26 Jun 2025 banned from senior management roles in financial services and fined £1.1 million for approving a misleading letter to the regulator about his relationship with Epstein Primary record 12

    The finding is about what Staley told the regulator, not about any crime.

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  • Jeffrey Epstein until 2017 banker on the account; in contact by email over many years; says he shared confidential bank information with him Primary record 13

    The regulator’s finding is about what Staley told it, not about any crime. JPMorgan accused him of misleading it into keeping Epstein as a client; he denied that, and they settled in 2023 on terms not disclosed. He told the House committee he believed he could share the information, and that he was unaware of Epstein’s crimes.

Contact on the record. By itself it shows neither knowledge of a crime nor a part in one.

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 2015–2021 Jes Staley CEO of Barclays
  2. until 2017 Jes Staley dealt with Jeffrey Epstein
  3. 26 Jun 2025 Jes Staley sanctioned by Financial Conduct Authority
Proof 4 sources
  1. Upper Tribunal upholds Jes Staley ban, Financial Conduct Authority, 26 Jun 2025. Primary record
    The FCA alleged that Mr Staley acted recklessly when he signed off the letter and the Tribunal agreed.
    Hundreds of emails were key to the FCA’s investigation and showed that the two had a close relationship over many years.
  2. Jes Staley fails to overturn ban over Jeffrey Epstein links, The Irish Times, 26 Jun 2025. Scholarship & press
    Jes Staley has failed to overturn a decision by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that he “recklessly” misled the regulator about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
    Mr Staley said in a statement on Thursday that he was “disappointed by the outcome and the time it took for this process to play out”.
  3. Former JPMorgan executive Staley says he shared confidential bank information with Epstein (Reuters, on CTV News), CTV News, 26 Aug 2026. Scholarship & press
    before leading Barclays from 2015 until his resignation in 2021
    Staley spent more than three decades at JPMorgan, where he ran the private bank and asset-management business for which Epstein was a client
    Former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley told U.S. lawmakers he repeatedly shared confidential and market-sensitive bank information with Jeffrey Epstein
    Staley said he divulged to Epstein the bank’s communications with the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis, a figure of US$44 billion in private bank inflows over two weeks, his own compensation, and details of pending deals.
  4. JPMorgan Settles With Staley, USVI to End Epstein Legal Woes, Bloomberg Law, 26 Sep 2023. Scholarship & press
    Staley was Epstein’s main contact at JPMorgan
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