Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the clothing and furniture chain Next acquired the shoemaker Russell & Bromley last week, two 19th-century UK retailers came together. It was not a merger of equals. Next, a FTSE 100 company with a … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Big Tech companies are on track to dominate borrowing in the US bond market, in a shift that could expose some of the world’s safest securities to greater risk from artificial intelligence. By 2030, half … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. KPMG partners have begun jockeying for position ahead of a potential UK leadership contest as boss Jon Holt’s campaign to become global chief creates uncertainty at the top of the Big Four accounting firm. Holt, … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK property myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK is set to cap ground rents paid to freeholders on existing properties after Sir Keir Starmer overruled chancellor Rachel Reeves, who had been concerned about the impact on institutional investors. Ministers will announce … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Humanity “needs to wake up” to the potentially catastrophic risks posed by powerful AI systems in the years to come, according to Anthropic boss Dario Amodei, whose company is among those pushing the frontiers of … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a fellow at the John L Thornton China Center at Brookings and writes the High Capacity newsletter We are witnessing a great reversal in global technology flows. For decades, China lagged behind … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former Citigroup managing director is suing the bank over claims its human resources department forced her out after she was sexually harassed by one of the bank’s most senior executives, Andy Sieg. Julia Carreon, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The London Stock Exchange Group is aiming to make it easier for international companies to join the City’s blue-chip index by reducing the amount of shares that need to be publicly traded. FTSE Russell, which … Read more