Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK insurance industry has urged ministers to adopt a light-touch regulatory regime for so-called captive insurance companies to encourage hundreds of businesses to bring these subsidiaries onshore and fill a gap in London’s
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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. Big multinational companies will from Monday be subject to a global minimum tax for the first time, as landmark cross-border tax reforms go live, seeking to raise up to $220bn in extra annual revenue. Almost
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Central banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. (adjective/adverb) central bank speak for a sustained period of tight monetary policy, intended to quench inflationary pressures without triggering a recession Alan Greenspan famously said he had “learnt to mumble with great incoherence” after becoming
Last year taught us to worry about clever chatbots, this year we will find out if artificial intelligence is ready for much wider use. Financial Times reporters consider this and other trends affecting businesses from defence contractors to energy majors, luxury and private equity. Technology Trend to watch If the biggest tech story of 2023
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a billion dollars worth of Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drugs procured in Europe have been wasted, according to health data, as tight controls over who can receive the medication left millions of doses unused
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, has announced she will abdicate after 52 years on the throne. The 83-year-old queen, who took over the throne in 1972, will step down on January
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s campaign in Gaza will continue for months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, dashing any hope of a swift end to a war that is already the bloodiest in 75 years of conflict between
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese President Xi Jinping has used his annual new year address to the nation to sound a warning to Taiwan’s voters days ahead of the island’s presidential election, while highlighting his country’s technological
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. (noun) a vague, geographically inept and yet emotionally resonant term for what was once known as the developing world To appreciate the rise to prominence of the term “global south” this year, the best analogy may
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine on Sunday issued nationwide air raid alerts after several people were killed and dozens injured by Russian attacks in the eastern region of Kharkiv, two days after Moscow’s deadliest strikes on Ukrainian cities
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The quest to revive Britain’s leading position in the EU’s €95.5bn Horizon science programme after three years away will face its first big test in January with a deadline to “pump-prime” new applications. Leading UK
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If I told you that I had made 17 new year’s resolutions — everything from doing more work and exercise to spending more time with my family — you’d probably suspect that I was being
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accounting & Consulting services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Accountants enjoying downtime over the holidays know they will return in January to the notorious “busy season”, when audit firms race to sign off on clients’ annual financial statements, as staff work late
At the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce, in the heart of one of America’s politically pivotal swing states, Joe Biden spoke proudly of his record in office — one he hopes will propel him to re-election in 2024. “All this groundbreaking work is producing groundbreaking results: record job creation, historic economic growth,” the president told
When Dave Calhoun took over as Boeing’s chief executive in January 2020, the company was in crisis. Four years later, with his expected successor starting her role as chief operating officer on January 1, the plane maker is in better shape but the fallout from that crisis — and the pandemic that followed — still
For two months, 65-year-old businessman Osama Amro was too nervous to leave the city of Ramallah, the economic heart of the occupied West Bank. In response to Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack, Israel has accompanied its siege of Gaza with a blockade of a different kind in the West Bank — shutting checkpoints between Palestinian
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. (noun) a date that has become so significant because of the killing and destruction associated with it that it needs no elaboration Hours after the dawn raid by Hamas on southern Israel, experts were describing
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US law firms are ending 2023 with pay rises and bonuses as they try to compete with rivals in spite of a slump in demand, though some lawyers face a cut to payouts if they
Record inflows into US money market funds in 2023 have triggered a multibillion-dollar fee bonanza for the asset management industry, which for years treated the product as a loss-leader. US money market fund providers – such as Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab – collectively earned $7.6bn in fees in 2023 as assets passed $6.3tn, according
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has accused Ukrainian forces of launching a deadly attack on a border city just a day after Moscow mounted one of the largest aerial strikes on its neighbour since the start of the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifa has abruptly suspended new global regulations for football agents on the eve of the January transfer window, in the latest legal reverse for an international sporting organisation. Football’s global governing body unveiled new rules