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Commodities traders are using the bumper profits earned during the energy crisis to snap up assets and bet on new businesses, from petrol stations to power plants, in a shift that increases their hold over complex global supply chains. Leading private trading houses Trafigura, Vitol, Gunvor and Mercuria have collectively earned more than $57bn in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Circle Internet, the US group behind the world’s second-largest stablecoin, has filed to list in New York, the first major cryptocurrency company to try for an initial public offering since President Donald Trump ushered in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank’s asset manager DWS has been fined €25mn by German prosecutors over a greenwashing scandal following long-running investigations by authorities in the US and Germany. DWS, which is 80 per cent owned by the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Bank of England has fined the prominent English financier Jay Hambro for his conduct while a director of Wyelands Bank, the British lender owned by Sanjeev Gupta that collapsed in a scandal. The BoE’s Prudential … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigeria’s president has replaced the board of the country’s state-owned oil company and put a former Shell executive in charge, as Africa’s largest crude producer tries to revive output and attract investment. President Bola Tinubu … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Monday was the end of the quarter, and you know what that means! That’s right: Trillions of dollars will be slightly rejigged because of an arbitrary date in an arbitrary calendar according to arbitrary rules … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Talks to allow US accountants to practise in the UK and vice versa have stalled following disputes including over how to judge the quality of American audit training. Accounting profession leaders on both sides of the … Read more
Launch of the TOV ‘invest Jewishly’ ETF puts activism to the test
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University On March 23, Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu — who has twice defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party in municipal elections — was formally … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Investors are on edge ahead of Donald Trump’s plan to hit imports to the US with new tariffs “immediately” on Wednesday, sharply escalating a trade war that has already rattled markets and trading … Read more