Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Commodities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The son of one of the Kazakh oligarchs who founded what is now Eurasian Resources Group is seeking to buy out his late father’s partners in a deal that would give Shukhrat Ibragimov a majority stake … Read more
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One thing to start: Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded technology start-ups, is entering insolvency proceedings, weeks after restating its revenues and admitting “problems” under its past leadership. Welcome to Due Diligence, your briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance. This article is an on-site version of the newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump’s administration is debating an executive order that could open the nearly $9tn US retirement market to private capital groups focused on corporate takeovers, property and other high-octane deals. The order would … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For football clubs, financial and on-pitch performance have a strong correlation. For Manchester United, both have been on the way down for a while. At 16th place in the Premier League — with only Tottenham … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A fifth of Shell’s shareholders have cast doubt on its strategy to become the world’s biggest supplier and trader of gas and LNG, questioning whether it makes sense from an economic or climate perspective. Wael … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Is the dominance of the dollar about to fade away? Donald Trump insists that “if we lost the dollar as the world currency . . . that would be the equivalent of losing a war”. Yet he … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Swedish private equity group EQT has offered to inject €220mn to help secure a restructuring deal at one of its two struggling French portfolio companies. EQT, which bought the nursing home group Colisée in a … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Top Republican financial officers from 21 states have urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine if Chinese companies on US stock exchanges should be delisted for failing to protect American investors. The … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Bank of England has introduced a new rule to clamp down on foreign lenders with large amounts of high-value deposits to close “a gap” identified after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm. … Read more