Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For a brief moment in the late 2010s, Monzo managed the seemingly impossible: it made a bank seem cool. For a certain subset of tech-literate young Britons, pulling out a “hot coral”-coloured Monzo debit card … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private market funds have underperformed large-cap US stocks over commonly measured time horizons for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, as a slowdown in private equity dealmaking activity hampers the sector’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. High-frequency trading firm Tower Research Capital is planning to launch a fund for external investors as it looks to shift beyond the ultrafast strategies that have made it a big player in global stock markets. … 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 Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish has filed for a US initial public offering as the Peter Thiel-backed group seeks to tap surging investor demand for digital assets under the Trump administration. The company confidentially filed … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US and Switzerland have ended a years-long stalemate over sharing information about client investments, a step that will allow Washington greater visibility into assets held in the European banking hub. The agreement comes … 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 US oil production will fall next year for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a government forecast that will cast new doubt on Donald Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda. The Energy … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone Group is preparing to significantly increase its investments across Europe as the private capital group bets economic reforms will revive growth after years of US outperformance. Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of the $1.2tn-in-assets investment group, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. We’ve looked before at how a few great individual stocks explain almost all cumulative wealth gains from equity market investing. Investors with the luck smarts to identify, buy, and hold these stocks did very well. But … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Sovereign bonds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Italian, Spanish and Greek sovereign bonds have emerged as the unlikely winners from this year’s bond market ructions, mounting a “relentless” rally that has narrowed the gap with Germany’s benchmark borrowing costs to nearly the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial & markets regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK financial regulator has said trading can begin later this year on new venues for buying and selling stakes in private companies, as it gave the green light to the much delayed … Read more