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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Large institutional investors are studying options to shed stakes in illiquid private equity funds after the rout in global financial markets pummelled their portfolios, according to top private capital advisers. The calls by pensions and … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK-based market maker XTX has reported a 54 per cent rise in profits in 2024, driven by positive investor sentiment about the economy and enthusiasm about generative AI. Filings last week to UK regulators and a … Read more
The US is closing on a deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo that would see American companies take more control of critical mineral assets in return for greater backing for the embattled Kinshasa government. President Donald Trump’s newly appointed Africa adviser Massad Boulos said he had seen the outlines of the deal and had … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 300 arm’s-length bodies will be considered for abolition or merger under UK government plans to cut waste and restore ministerial control over swaths of policy areas. Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden has written … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors’ focus is unlikely to waver in the coming week from Donald Trump’s trade war. After the US president’s blitz of tariffs sparked a global sell-off this week — in a rout that intensified when … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Digital currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. “It is imperative for the ECB to introduce a digital euro”, said Philip Lane, the European Central Bank’s chief economist, in a recent speech. Earlier last month Paschal Donohoe, president of the Eurogroup of finance … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The boss of London-listed Seplat wants to “demystify” Nigeria for international investors after completing a tortured billion-dollar deal with ExxonMobil that has transformed the company into one of country’s biggest oil producers. Two years ago … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff blitz has sparked the biggest sell-off in the US junk bond market since 2020, signalling growing angst among investors that an economic slowdown will hit corporate America. The premium investors … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venezuela’s authoritarian socialist government is cracking down on the use of black market dollars as it seeks to protect the embattled bolívar currency in the face of US sanctions and “secondary” tariffs. The parallel exchange … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s first commercial pension “superfund” is planning to pour more than £3bn into private markets over the next three years, in a boost to chancellor Rachel Reeves’ attempts to increase investment in the economy. … Read more