Altice creditors brace for next showdown with Patrick Drahi
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Altice bondholders have formed an alliance to bolster their position ahead of the next round of restructuring of Patrick Drahi’s heavily indebted telecoms empire, just two months after the billionaire struck a €24bn deal with … Read more
EU urged to force Big Tech to vet financial ads for scams
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Commission faces pressure from several member states to make social media platforms shoulder the burden of fighting online payments scams that defraud people out of billions of euros each year. The initiative led … Read more
Stablecoins should be treated as currency
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs and visiting scholar on financial technology at Georgetown University Law School In 1758, an English mail coach carrying banknotes was robbed. The robber used one … Read more
UK regulator to dilute mortgage lending rules
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK financial watchdog has announced plans to water down its rules on mortgage lending to make it faster and cheaper for people to get home loans, despite consumer groups warning of increased mis-selling … Read more
Are investors making another run at Hong Kong’s dollar peg?
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Asian FX is full of drama these days, but here’s something that has flown under the radar: the Hong Kong dollar has bounced up against its upper dollar limit, forcing the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to … Read more
Geely to take Zeekr private a year after NY float
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Geely is planning to take its electric vehicle unit Zeekr private, only a year after its New York listing as the Chinese auto conglomerate blamed pressures from an “increasingly complex economic environment”. The delisting comes … Read more
The coming Asian FX ‘avalanche’
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. After a frankly insane few days, the Taiwanese dollar has fallen back past the 30-per-US dollar mark again. But SLJ Eurozon’s Stephen Jen reckons that its recent rollercoaster is a harbinger of a wider, violent repricing … Read more
Where will the US economy be at year end?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more
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