Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Goldman Sachs has reported a 36 per cent drop in third-quarter profits, the bank’s eighth straight quarter of falling earnings, as it grappled with losses following its pullback from retail banking and writedowns on its
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. At the time of writing, the US has no ambassador in Egypt. A chargé d’affaires is doing the job while the nominee for the permanent role enters her seventh month in the Surrealist theatre
The Bitcoin (BTC) value proposition continues to be a source of confidence for investors and proponents amid prevailing depressed market conditions in the broader cryptocurrency space. This was a key takeaway from in-depth interviews with Bitcoin developers, advocates, analysts and influential figures during the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 conference. Jameson Lopp, the CEO of Bitcoin custody
Bitcoin (BTC) passing $28,000 hints at bullish sentiment, but reclaiming it for good is essential, analysis says. In an X post on Oct. 17, Yann Allemann and Jan Happel, co-founders of on-chain analytics firm Glassnode, described the $28,000 mark as a “critical milestone” for BTC price. Glassnode: “Keep an eye out” for $28,000 After snap
Kasia Czarska drove 45 minutes on Sunday to vote in the town of Sulejówek on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The 39-year-old public relations manager planned her trip three weeks in advance of the fiercely contested election, studying Poland’s electoral map to work out in which constituency her vote could be of most help in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jordan has warned that the Middle East is at the edge of an “abyss”, as diplomatic activity intensifies to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiralling into a regional conflict. King Abdullah of Jordan delivered his
One of the major lessons learned about the Covid-19 pandemic was the role ventilation played in its spread. In the summer and fall of 2020, the World Health Organization and then the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the deadly virus was largely transmitted through aerosols, not saliva droplets as originally thought, and
The United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is removing dozens of trading pairs in order to improve liquidity on its platform. Coinbase has suspended 80 non-USD trading pairs, including those with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), stablecoins like Tether (USDT) and fiat currencies like the euro. Announcing the news on Oct. 16, Coinbase said that the trading
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s opposition leader Donald Tusk and his Civic Platform party alongside two smaller partners have won a combined 248 of the 460 seats in the next parliament, according to the country’s final election results, giving
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Vladimir Putin has arrived in China for a high-level meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Russian president’s first visit to Beijing since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine last year. The two-day trip comes
Stablecoin TrueUSD (TUSD) announced a potential leak of certain Know Your Customer (KYC) and transaction history data as one of TrueCoin’s third-party vendors got compromised. TrueCoin was the operator of the TUSD stablecoin till July 13, 2023. On Oct. 16, a third-party vendor’s security team informed TrueCoin of “an anomalous account change within [TrueCoin’s] organization
A former Hamas leader said the group was holding 200 to 250 people captive, but was focused on securing the release of thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. Khaled Meshaal, who now heads Hamas’s diaspora office and still holds an important position in its leadership, said during an interview with Qatar-based Al Araby
Blockchain sleuths have zeroed in on a recent transaction from a wallet associated with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, where he transferred $14.9 million worth of USD Coin (USDC) to the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. According to an Oct. 17 post from blockchain analytics firm PeckShield on X, Buterin’s wallet “Vitalik.eth” transferred $14.93 million to Gemini on
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 for research and training at Bellingcat and an assistant professor with the Global Justice Investigations Lab at Utrecht University It has been difficult to avoid the horrific footage in the news
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians abandon their homes in northern Gaza and flee to the coastal strip’s south, alarm is mounting in Egypt that the deepening humanitarian crisis will be thrust across its borders. Egypt, the only country other than Israel to share a frontier with besieged Gaza, is already being urged by the
Asked why he moved to Kfar Aza — a kibbutz so poor in the 1960s that when the food wagon arrived each evening, he had to choose between half a boiled egg or a slice of cheese — 67-year-old Shai Hermesh answered proudly with a single word. “Zionism,” he said. For the next six decades,
US arms manufacturers are preparing to surge weapons supplies to Israel at a time when they are already under pressure to arm Ukraine and replenish depleted Pentagon stocks, a challenge analysts say will add stress to a stretched defence industrial base. Unlike Ukraine, which has been the recipient of hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles,
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Decentralized liquid staking protocol Lido Finance has announced a decision to cease operations on the Solana blockchain following a community vote in Lido’s decentralized autonomous organization. The proposal to sunset Lido on Solana was first put forward by Lido’s peer-to-peer team on Sept. 5, citing unsustainable financials and low fees generated by Lido on Solana.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon has decided to stop DJing at high-profile events following criticism that his hobby created a distraction from his work leading the Wall Street firm, according to people with knowledge
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The terror threat alert in Brussels was raised to its highest level on Monday after two Swedes were killed in a shooting that Belgian authorities said had a potential terrorist motivation. A police spokesperson confirmed