Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial & markets regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s financial regulators need to learn from Singapore by ditching their “risk-averse culture”, stepping up support for economic growth, and becoming more welcoming to businesses, a House of Lords committee has said. Since … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Anthony Pompliano, one of America’s most prominent crypto influencers, is set to be installed as chief executive of a publicly traded company that is raising $750mn to fund a bitcoin buying spree. Pompliano, a podcast host … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s monthly inflation rate has fallen below 2 per cent for the first time in five years, a boost for libertarian President Javier Milei in his war against the country’s chronic price pressures. Consumer prices … Read more
Credit Suisse may be gone but it is far from forgotten. London’s High Court is the latest venue to unearth failings at the venerable Swiss bank before its emergency takeover in 2023 by arch-rival UBS. London’s Rolls Building is where a $440mn legal battle is being waged between a Credit Suisse investment fund, SoftBank, and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in mobile payments group Chime surged on the company’s debut in New York, underscoring investor optimism for fintech amid a burst of activity in the US initial public offerings market. Chime opened on Nasdaq at … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Since Donald Trump’s re-election — or at least since Liberation Day — the US dollar’s reserve asset status has been litigated among economists and columnists. And it’s hard to argue that its shine has come off. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The FTSE 100 index closed at a record high on Thursday, completing its recovery from a sharp decline earlier in the year sparked by US President Donald Trump’s global trade war. The UK’s main equity … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the UK fintech company Wise announced last week that it would move its primary listing to New York, it sounded like more bad news for the London Stock Exchange. But the decision by its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the trickiest challenges for any honest investor is trying to work out whether they are lucky or smart. Is their successful trading strategy the equivalent of a coin toss coming up heads five … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BlackRock has set an ambitious $400bn fundraising target for its private investment businesses, as executives laid out a plan to almost double the market value of the world’s largest asset manager by 2030. The 2030 … Read more