Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in retail trading platform eToro surged on the company’s Wall Street debut as investor optimism sparked by a de-escalation of trade tensions between China and the US spread to the new listings market. EToro … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The official Perkins Verdict on whether the US has acquired a post-Liberation Day “moron risk premium” — no — came in more than a month ago, but that hasn’t stopped people pointing at Britain in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Bank of London is under scrutiny on two fronts from regulators as its auditor warned that there were “material uncertainties” over whether the ailing fintech could continue trading. Regulators at the Bank of England’s … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is founding partner and CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital and former chief executive of Barclays I’m writing this in New York. If I take even a short journey from my desk, I can … Read more
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The furious rally in US assets sparked by the tariff détente between Washington and Beijing has caught big investors off guard, colliding with widespread bets against the dollar and Wall Street stocks. The S&P 500 has rallied 3.3 per cent this week, erasing all of its losses this year, after the US and China agreed … Read more
Brad Setser is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former US Treasury official. Sometime on May 2, a Taiwanese company probably came to the conclusion that it was time to sell a slug of its export proceeds. Like the proverbial butterfly, it caused a financial storm that we’re still not through. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy from a loss-making software company into the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin. The FT unpacks what some investors have dubbed Saylor’s ‘infinite money glitch’, and questions whether … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I shall not look upon his like again,” declares Hamlet, ruminating over the loss of his father at the beginning of the play. Since Warren Buffett announced his retirement from Berkshire Hathaway this month, financial … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Julius Baer has been ordered to pay more than SFr4mn by Switzerland’s financial regulator over anti-money laundering and compliance failings in its handling of high-risk clients. The enforcement decision, contained in a document dated November … Read more