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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heightened regulatory scrutiny of deals where insurers offload some of their risk to private equity-owned companies is “welcome” to ensure the transactions do not create problems for the industry, the outgoing chief executive of insurer

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the European economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Europe will not be able to afford its generous welfare state provision and increased investment in defence and in tackling climate change unless the region fixes a persistent decline in growth, the European Central Bank’s

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world From heavy artillery to fighter jets, each shift by the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with more potent weaponry has traced a similar path. Months of soul-searching about possible Russian escalation are followed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US will bear the brunt of any attempt by president-elect Donald Trump to decouple economically from China, a senior Beijing adviser has warned, citing the reliance on low-cost Chinese parts of American manufacturers including

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-editor of the newly-released ‘Turbulence in the Eastern Mediterranean: Geopolitical, Security and Energy Dynamics’ With the world understandably focused on the

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under growing pressure to drop his resistance to sending German-made cruise missiles to Ukraine after the US allowed Kyiv limited use of its weapons for strikes inside Russia. US President Joe Biden has authorised Ukraine to launch limited strikes into Russia’s Kursk region using US-made long-range missiles, a major policy

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a software engineer and author of ‘Popping the Crypto Bubble’ Remember when cryptocurrency was supposed to disrupt and replace finance? Well, history had other plans. As bitcoin surges past $85,000, doubling in price

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world We all know the slogan. But Donald Trump will not make America great again by waging war on his domestic enemies. Instead Trump’s vengeance campaign threatens the real foundations of American greatness. The

Meal replacement company Huel has reported a surge in profits as its customer base grows beyond the time-pressed “tech bros” of the UK brand’s early years and expands its product range into chewable food. Huel’s pre-tax profit for the year to July 31 almost tripled compared with the year before, rising 194 per cent to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An octogenarian oil trader has been given a 17-and-a-half-year jail sentence in Singapore for defrauding HSBC, in a long-running case that sent shockwaves through the city-state’s commodity trading sector. Lim Oon Kuin, known as OK

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank is debating whether to publish sensitive research showing capital requirements for big EU lenders would rise by a double-digit percentage if they had the same rules as large Wall Street rivals.

US business leaders are warning that Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented workers could create mass labour shortages, closing restaurants, crippling farms and small businesses, and raising prices. Food producers, manufacturers and hotels were hiring lawyers to audit the legal status of their workers, said Amy Peck, an immigration attorney who represents employers

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of the UK’s Government Legal Department is pushing for more of a “revolving door” with industry, as US law firms in London spur large salary increases, putting extra pressure on public sector hiring.

Emma Reynolds, UK pensions minister, has left the door open to forcing pension schemes to invest more in British assets if reforms fail to drive savings into domestic infrastructure and companies.  The government announced this week it would create a series of “megafunds” to steer more of the UK’s £1.3tn defined contribution and local authority pension industry

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is chair of Rockefeller International. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Capitalism’  Having turned the vote his way in just about every corner of the 50 states, Donald Trump’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Optimists express confidence that the “special relationship” between the US and UK will survive even Donald Trump’s most anarchic instincts. Perhaps. But our governing values and fortunes are now an ocean apart at least in

About 150 miles south-east of the US city of New Orleans, Shell’s newest oil platform looms above the choppy waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Dubbed Vito, the structure embodies a new approach to offshore drilling both for the company — and the industry at large. “Vito represents the future of Shell in the Gulf

Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy recently told employees that a new plan requiring them to be in the office five days a week did not amount to a “backdoor lay-off”. Yet his reported comments at a company-wide meeting last week did not rebut a previous suggestion from a senior manager that staff who fail to

Donald Trump’s election as US president is already threatening international initiatives on climate change and taxation, as diplomats from the world’s richest nations struggle to maintain a shaky consensus on the eve of a G20 summit in Brazil. Argentina and its President Javier Milei, a close ally of Trump, threatened to block a joint communiqué