Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe is struggling to come up with the cash to fund Ukraine’s war effort. Its debt-laden countries would rather not stump up themselves. And the European Commission is still attempting to get full support for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ahh, Christmas party season. That blur of sequins, sparkling wine and surprising dance moves; the time of year when the carefully curated image you have spent the other eleven-and-a-half months refining can be obliterated in … Read more
Japan has urged the US to give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi more public support after expressing frustration at the level of backing she received following comments about Taiwan that enraged China. Tokyo thinks top US officials have not offered enough support for Japan, according to current and former US and Japanese officials, after China lashed … 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 US defence secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to “restore US military dominance” in the Western hemisphere as Washington formally shifts its national security policy towards its geographic backyard. Hegseth declared that the Monroe Doctrine … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigel Farage announced the defection of a Conservative peer to Reform UK at a rally in the Scottish town of Falkirk on Saturday. Lord Malcolm Offord, a Greenock-born former private equity partner who served as … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK banks are celebrating the most favourable regulatory environment since the financial crisis, top executives told the Financial Times, as regulators ease rules and the government turns to the sector to help revive growth. … Read more
Brussels’ contentious plan to use frozen Russian sovereign assets to backstop up to €210bn in loans to Ukraine is testing the EU’s political and legal framework to the limit. But it could also have big consequences for the bloc’s financial markets. Some fund managers warn that a move to use the frozen assets would drive … Read more
The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank has opted to take about 250,000 sq ft of Canary Wharf office space in a building emblazoned with the logo of Revolut, the latest high profile lease for London’s Docklands financial centre. The … Read more
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