{"id":65865,"date":"2026-02-10T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/barclays-ceo-shocked-by-epstein-revelations-as-bank-deals-with-staley-fallout\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:55:27","slug":"barclays-ceo-shocked-by-epstein-revelations-as-bank-deals-with-staley-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/barclays-ceo-shocked-by-epstein-revelations-as-bank-deals-with-staley-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays CEO \u2018shocked\u2019 by Epstein revelations as bank deals with Staley fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CS Venkatakrishnan dismayed by \u2018depravity and corruption\u2019 revealed in Epstein files as he announces profits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/10\/global-stocks-record-highs-bp-annual-profits-slump-us-retail-sales-live-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The chief executive of Barclays has said he is \u201cdeeply dismayed and shocked\u201d at the \u201cdepravity and the corruption\u201d revealed in the Epstein files, as the bank deals with the fallout of its ex-boss Jes Staley\u2019s ties to the convicted child sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>In his first public comments on the matter since the US Department of Justice began publishing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein in December, CS Venkatakrishnan said his thoughts went out to the victims of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting child sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/10\/barclays-epstein-files-bank-jes-staley-profits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CS Venkatakrishnan dismayed by \u2018depravity and corruption\u2019 revealed in Epstein files as he announces profits Business live \u2013 latest updates The chief executive of Barclays has said he is \u201cdeeply dismayed and shocked\u201d at the \u201cdepravity and the corruption\u201d revealed in the Epstein files, as the bank deals with the fallout of its ex-boss Jes &#8230; <a title=\"Barclays CEO \u2018shocked\u2019 by Epstein revelations as bank deals with Staley fallout\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/barclays-ceo-shocked-by-epstein-revelations-as-bank-deals-with-staley-fallout\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Barclays CEO \u2018shocked\u2019 by Epstein revelations as bank deals with Staley fallout\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}