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Receive free DWS Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest DWS Group news every morning. DWS has agreed to pay a total of $25mn to settle two separate enforcement actions brought by the US securities regulator stemming from investigations into a greenwashing scandal that has dogged the asset

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Airbus is preparing to shake up its senior leadership and appoint a dedicated head of its flagship civil aircraft business as Europe’s aerospace and defence champion seeks to tackle operational issues and geopolitical challenges.  Under

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. The writer is the author of several books on the City and Wall Street A hundred years ago, the UK had more than a dozen stock exchanges. London was the biggest but Aberdeen, Cardiff, Leeds

Receive free Outlook updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Outlook news every morning. The writer is a former FT intern The journey of the first overhead-powered electric tramway in Europe began in 1891 with “exclamations of delight” and ended in frustration. A hundred or so aldermen, councillors and

Receive free EU trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU trade news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our Trade Secrets newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Monday Welcome to Trade Secrets. I got some pushback

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. European stocks followed Asia lower on Monday, as fears over the health of China’s property sector aggravated investors’ concerns that global economic growth was slowing. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.3 per cent at

Receive free Artificial intelligence updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Artificial intelligence news every morning. Amazon plans to invest up to $4bn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, as the big tech group steps up its rivalry with Microsoft, Google and Nvidia to persuade AI companies to use its

Western companies are slowly insulating their China operations from the mounting tensions over trade and geopolitics between Beijing and the west, as governments call for increased “de-risking”. The notion, which has replaced the radical “decoupling” as a diplomatic buzzword this year, is a sign that the west is seeking a less antagonistic approach to managing

Receive free Global Insight updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global Insight news every morning. Russia and Ukraine are both supposed to hold presidential elections next March. Autocratic Russia will go ahead. But for democratic Ukraine, under constant threat of Russian attack and constrained by martial law, it

Receive free Pensions industry updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Pensions industry news every morning. The writer is a former global head of asset allocation at a fund manager A year ago soaring bond yields and a collapsing currency threatened to bring down the British financial system. Fixed

When Deloitte cautioned staff earlier this month that it planned to cut about 800 jobs in the UK, it blamed slowing growth and economic uncertainty. The warning only added to a sense of gloom about the prospects of the Big Four accountancy firms, three of which are planning at least some job losses and redeployments.

Receive free Global trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global trade news every morning. One of the most important lessons from the 2008 global financial crisis was that financial models don’t always work. The idea that you could throw thousands of variables into an algorithmic black box,

Receive free Chinese business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese business & finance news every morning. A senior Nomura banker has been banned from leaving mainland China, a move connected to a long-running investigation into the country’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan, according to people

Receive free EU-China relations updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU-China relations news every morning. Relations between China and the EU are “at a crossroads” and the two sides could “drift apart” because of Beijing’s support for Russia over Ukraine and “discriminatory” trade rules, one of Brussels’ most

Receive free British Business Bank Plc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest British Business Bank Plc news every morning. The British Business Bank fell to a £135mn loss after tax in its most recent financial year as its investments were hit by a decline in tech company valuations.

Lego has abandoned its highest-profile effort to ditch oil-based plastics from its bricks after finding that its new material led to higher carbon emissions, in a sign of the complex trade-offs companies face in their search for sustainability. The world’s largest toymaker announced two years ago that it had tested a prototype brick made of

Receive free Russian business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Russian business & finance news every morning. Russia has succeeded in avoiding G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, a shift in trade flows that will boost the Kremlin’s revenues as crude rises towards $100

Receive free Artificial intelligence updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Artificial intelligence news every morning. Artificial intelligence poses a “bracing test” to the multilateral system, the UK government has warned, as it seeks to align countries including China behind its vision for regulating the technology’s “societal-scale” risks. Speaking

Receive free US economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US economy news every morning. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International The American economy is estimated to have grown at a rate of 3 per cent or more this quarter, a pace as blistering as it was

Receive free Confederation of British Industry updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Confederation of British Industry news every morning. The CBI has secured its short-term future with fresh funding to help plug a financial shortfall after dozens of members quit the UK’s largest business lobby group in April

Receive free HS2 updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest HS2 news every morning. Rishi Sunak is facing a renewed backlash from Conservative and Labour politicians, business executives and university leaders after the government refused to rule out scrapping Britain’s beleaguered High-Speed Rail 2 project beyond Birmingham. Speculation about