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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. European competition authorities are focusing more on companies in the consumer sector as inflation heightens the risk of uncompetitive behaviour. in 2022, 17 unannounced inspections — dawn raids — were targeted by competition

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is deputy leader of the UK Labour party Boris Johnson once said: “Fuck business.” And that’s exactly what he did. Since then, his successors as Conservative prime minister have followed suit. The impact

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A nearly 5 per cent rise for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises Index over the past week has stoked expectations for a catch-up rally when mainland stock exchanges return from their 10-day Lunar New

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin A growing number of senior Nato officials are warning of a direct military confrontation between Europe and Russia in the not-so-distant future. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A senior banker has alleged that Morgan Stanley manufactured his job title to dupe European regulators into believing the bank had moved top staff to Frankfurt to comply with post-Brexit rules. The banker joined Morgan

Svetlana, a Russian literary scholar, knew she was risking arrest when she emerged from the Moscow metro to join hundreds of others drawn to the Solovetsky Stone to mark the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “I will never forget how I hid flowers under my jacket, exiting the metro station that was surrounded by

Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan will next week attempt to fulfil a promise his predecessor made to shareholders eight years ago: that a future with the UK bank is a bright one. The lender, the last European player of any size on Wall Street, will on Tuesday deliver its first major update on strategy since

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Alexei Navalny’s family have accused Russian authorities of hiding his body to cover up what they say is a state-sponsored murder, as the authorities began to arrest people attending spontaneous memorial gatherings. Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nato members are undermining their own security by holding back on critical weapon deliveries to Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Saturday, hours after his generals ordered a retreat from the eastern town of Avdiivka. 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Concerns in Europe that Donald Trump might disengage the US from Nato would become “much less relevant” if all countries in the alliance hit their defence spending targets, said Grant Shapps, Britain’s defence secretary. Trump

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Evergrande’s liquidators are preparing for a potential lawsuit against PwC, which audited the now-collapsed Chinese property group for over a decade, in a move that could lead to the Big Four accounting firm facing a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sequoia Capital is seeking to oust its former leader Michael Moritz as chair of the fintech Klarna, an extraordinary move that reflects the venture capital group’s mounting discontent over the governance of what was once

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump and several business associates to pay a total of $364mn in penalties for persistent fraud committed by the real estate empire that brought the former US president

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said long-term defence agreements struck with Germany and France heralded a “new security architecture for Ukraine and new opportunities”. Zelenskyy signed 10-year bilateral defence accords with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2020, Alexei Navalny somehow survived being poisoned — almost certainly by Russian security agents — with a military-grade nerve agent. Now, after years of mistreatment in custody, Russia’s prison service says he has died

Hours after learning her husband Alexei Navalny had probably died in a remote Russian penal colony, Yulia Navalnaya made an unplanned appearance at the Munich Security Conference to tell western leaders who she held responsible. “If this is true, I want Putin and all of his entourage, Putin’s friends and his government to know they

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak sought to dampen the anger of his internal Tory party critics over two resounding by-election defeats on Friday by insisting that “midterm elections are always difficult” for incumbent governments. But Conservative insiders were

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Goldman Sachs paid chief executive David Solomon $31mn for 2023, up 24 per cent annually despite the Wall Street investment bank reporting its lowest profits in four years.  Last year was the most challenging so

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition activist who has been the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin’s regime for much of the past decade, has died in a remote Arctic penal colony aged 47, according to prison authorities. A firebrand campaigner for what he called the “beautiful Russia of the future”, Navalny’s detailed investigations exposing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Adrian Montague has quit as chair of Thames Water’s parent company after less than a year, as the utility faces a regulatory investigation over its decision to pay shareholders a dividend. Montague, an experienced

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Egypt is building a walled enclosure along its border with Gaza, according to satellite images and activists, as Israel warned it would expand its offensive into the city of Rafah where 1.5mn displaced Palestinians have