* BarCap says co-operated fully with FSA during its probe
* FSA fine was for client money breaches
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LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Barclays has been handed its second fine in two weeks by Britain's financial watchdog, this time for breaching rules on handling client money.
The Financial Services Authority fined the British lender's investment banking arm, Barclays Capital, 1.12 million pounds ($1.8 million) for failing to protect and segregate client money and its own funds on an intra-day basis from 2001-09.
"Barclays Capital committed a serious breach of FSA client money rules by failing to segregate millions of pounds of its clients' money for over eight years," FSA managing director Margaret Cole said on Wednesday.
"This posed a significant risk and the penalty reflects the amount of client money involved in this breach," she said.
Barclays Capital said it had co-operated fully with the FSA during its probe. "The segregation error was corrected on discovery. No counterparties, clients, or financial reports were affected and Barclays Capital did not profit in any way."
Last week, the FSA hit Barclays with a 7.7 million pound fine for mis-selling two income-focused funds to more than 12,000 clients who later lost money during the financial crisis.
The British financial watchdog has sought to toughen up its act in recent years, after being criticised for having been too soft on banks and brokers during the credit crisis.
Last year, the FSA fined U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs 17.5 million pounds and fined French bank Societe Generale 1.6 million pounds. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Dan Lalor) ($1 = 0.6324 pound)