By Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barclays PLC is very “far along” in discussions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after it sold securities in breach of U.S. rules, the bank’s chief executive said on Monday. “We are very, very far along in discussions with the SEC on resolving outstanding issues with that matter,” C.S. Venkatakrishnan told a Barclays investor conference. Barclays’ second-quarter profit was dented by a 1.9 billion pound ($2.3 billion) hit for regulatory missteps, including having to buy back billions of dollars of securities the bank sold in error. It took a…