Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two Canadian pension giants plan to sell their stakes in Associated British Ports in a deal that they hope will value the UK’s biggest ports operator at more than £10bn. The Canada Pension Plan Investment … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Visma, the €19bn private equity-backed software group, may delay its plans for London’s biggest initial public offering in years after a broad sell-off in the sector. Visma, owned by the British buyout firm Hg, has … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Kirkland & Ellis lawyer who helped Jeffrey Epstein avoid federal child sex crime charges in 2007 later invited him to his son’s bar mitzvah and asked to borrow his helicopter for a trip to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brad Karp is stepping down as chair of Paul Weiss and will be replaced by top deals lawyer Scott Barshay, after revelations about his relationship with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, two people familiar with … 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 Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis has called for laws to curb the “very harmful” effects of AI, as he criticised attempts backed by Donald Trump to “kneecap the states and let Big Tech … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google said it plans to spend at least $55bn more on capital expenditure this year than Wall Street had forecast, as it doubles down on its huge spending on AI. The search giant increased its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rokos Capital Management has ended talks with Lord Peter Mandelson over a lucrative advisory role after further revelations about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The London-based hedge fund had been in … 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 Donald Trump’s administration has launched an effort to form a trade zone for critical minerals with allies including Japan and the EU, as it battles to break China’s control of the sector. Vice-president … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Aides to the former Prince Andrew took detailed financial advice from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on a lucrative proposal for the royal to be paid for introducing clients such as sovereign wealth funds … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has written to the head of the EU’s Anti-Fraud Office calling for an inquiry into Peter Mandelson’s time as an EU commissioner in 2004-2008. Farage, who was an MEP for … Read more