Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former security minister and a Conservative MP We can’t say we haven’t been warned. Since last Christmas, a Russian-linked crude carrier has been accused of severing cables linking Finland and Estonia, a Russian spy … Read more
If President Donald Trump sought to use Friday’s Epstein file dump to deflect attention from his own relationship with the late sex offender, as critics allege, he may have succeeded. Since the release, the public gaze has been fixed not on Trump but on one of his great ideological foes — Bill Clinton. The former … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world (noun) the state of being cheap enough for people to pay for As well as coming from nowhere to win the mayoral election in New York, Zohran Mamdani, a self-described “democratic socialist”, succeeded … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fidelity International has warned UK company chairs against approving excessive pay packets as part of a broader crackdown on corporate governance standards. The asset manager, which oversees more than $1tn, has sent a letter to … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Workplace pensions myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Royal Mail’s new pension scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, fell almost 5 per cent in its first six months, raising questions over the level of future payouts for its more than … Read more
In a data centre outside of Osaka, Japan, Nvidia’s cutting-edge semiconductors are at the disposal of one customer: China’s Tencent. The advanced B200 chips are owned by Datasection — a Japanese marketing solutions provider that sharply switched into running AI data centres last year. Since then, Datasection has gained more than $1.2bn in contracts with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revolut has clashed with dozens of former senior staff facing unexpectedly large tax bills from selling shares in the company, following incorrect information from the fintech. The London-headquartered neobank informed ex-employees this month that they … Read more
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was making one last push to persuade EU leaders to use €210bn in frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine when he realised he lacked a critical ally: Emmanuel Macron. In the weeks leading up to Thursday’s summit in Brussels, the French president did not publicly oppose the German proposal. Privately, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Christmas can be a boozy time of year but Britons are drinking less alcohol than before, as financial pressures, health concerns and an ageing population lead to cutbacks in consumption. The average UK adult consumed … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sunday December 14 was a day of horrific male brutality: a father and son slaughtering 15 innocent people including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. But it was also … Read more