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Cristina Junqueira says the meeting that persuaded her to abandon a career with big corporate names and join an insurgent effort to revolutionise banking was an easy sell. The person making the pitch was David Vélez, a Colombian then working in venture capital, who wanted her to join him as co-founder of a new Brazilian … Read more
This article is an on-site version of the India Business Briefing newsletter. To receive it in your inbox regularly, sign up if you’re a premium subscriber, or upgrade your subscription here. Good morning from Hong Kong, where the FT’s Asia journalists are in a two-day editorial planning huddle. There’s so much to be excited about! (My … Read more
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it remained unclear whether its touchdown was smooth enough to perform its intended work, or if it toppled over in the process, potentially limiting … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors have poured into low-risk money market funds as they seek a refuge from recent tumult on Wall Street sparked by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sending the industry’s assets under management to $7tn. More … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to dismiss its complaint against Silver Point Capital, a credit hedge fund it accused in December of lax controls around protocols for non-public information. The final dismissal … Read more
Rum, a diamond-shaped island off the western coast of Scotland, is home to 40 people. Most of the island — 40 square miles of mountains, peatland and heath — is a national nature reserve, with residents mainly nestled around Kinloch Bay to the east. What the Isle of Rum lacks is artificial illumination. There are … Read more
Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? The company’s second lander, named Athena, launched on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on an arcing path to … Read more
Starship — the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — is back on a launch mount in South Texas and ready for its eighth test flight. On Monday night, SpaceX flight controllers halted their countdown with about 30 seconds to go, and then decided several minutes later that they … Read more
Matt West is investing for his three young children so they’ll have money to use as house deposits when they’re older. He tops up their junior Isas, which he holds on platform Hargreaves Lansdown, with regular monthly direct debits, plus any money the children get for Christmas. “I’ve tried to look at investments that will … Read more
