LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Barclays is contestingallegations from Britain's regulator over commercial agreementslinked to its controversial fundraising with Qatari investors in2008, which helped it avoid a government bail-out.
The fundraising has been under investigation by theFinancial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office sincelast July and August.
"The FCA provided its preliminary findings against Barclayson June 27 in respect of some of these commercial agreements.Barclays has responded on July 25 contesting the FCA'spreliminary findings," the bank said in its half-year resultspublished on Tuesday.
"Barclays expects further developments in the near term," itadded.