LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A former Barclays executive hasbeen banned from holding senior positions in the UK financialservices industry for misconduct, the Financial ServicesAuthority (FCA) said on Wednesday.
Andrew Tinney, the former chief operating officer ofBarclays' wealth and investment management division who left thebank in 2013, is contesting the FCA decision and has referred itto the Upper Tribunal, a body that hears challenges to FCAnotices, for review.
The Barclays unit hit the headlines last November when theFCA fined the bank 72 million pounds ($95 million) for cuttingcorners when vetting wealthy clients, identified as Qatari bysources, to win a 1.9 billion pound "elephant" deal in 2011 and2012.
($1 = 0.7578 pounds) (Reporting by Kirstin Ridley, editing by Anjuli Davies)