Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK payments regulator has warned Visa and Mastercard it will take action to tackle a lack of competition and transparency in the card payments market that it said was costing British businesses millions … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investment banks that thought 2025 would bring a windfall of mergers and acquisitions fees have been disappointed so far. Nor are equity and credit traders likely to deliver outsized gains, following a blockbuster 2024. But … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Schroders’ new chief executive said “the business isn’t broken but it needs to do better” as he outlined plans to save hundreds of millions of pounds in costs as part a strategy aimed at restoring … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Seven & i, the Japanese retail giant, is planning to list its 7-Eleven store business in North America and launch a massive share buyback, as it faces a $47bn takeover attempt by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard. … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Canada and the US could imperil North American energy stability if they restrict cross-border electricity and gas supplies in a trade war, an industry watchdog warned. Canada and the US have a “symbiotic … Read more
When Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on December 12, the chants of “USA” from the trading floor epitomised the investor exuberance that had greeted the president-elect’s victory and powered US stocks to a series of record highs. But just a few months later, investors betting that the new … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Exchange traded funds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Latest news on ETFs Visit our ETF Hub to find out more and to explore our in-depth data and comparison tools European investors pulled money from US equity exchange traded funds in February for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a law professor at the American University Washington College of Law Wall Street has long fretted about the disruptive threat from technology to the business of finance. Now with Donald Trump back in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s 10-year borrowing costs rose to a 16-year high on Thursday as Tokyo joined a global bond sell-off sparked by Germany’s decision to spend more on defence. The yield on the 10-year Japanese government bond … Read more
