The UK's financial watchdog has fined Barclays £40m over conduct during a fundraising drive in 2008 which it has called "reckless" and lacking integrity. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says the bank failed to disclose arrangements with Qatari investors when it was looking to raise money at the height of the financial crisis.

Barclays Plc has been fined £40 million ($50.3 million) by British regulators over failures to disclose details of its rescue by Qatar during the 2008 financial crisis.

Britain's financial regulator has fined Barclays 40 million pounds ($50.9 million) for its failure to disclose payments made to Qatari entities in 2008, after the bank on Monday said it had dropped its appeal over the case.