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Receive free FTX Trading Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest FTX Trading Ltd news every morning. FTX has sued the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, claiming they enriched themselves by siphoning off millions of dollars from the cryptocurrency exchange their son founded. In a court filing late on

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. China should do more to stimulate domestic consumption, European businesses have declared, saying huge investment in electric vehicle capacity has caused “understandable” concern in the EU. The EU last week announced an anti-subsidy

Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. What is the economic future of China? Will it become a high-income economy and so, inevitably, the largest in the world for an extended period, or will it be stuck in the “middle

Receive free UK banks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK banks news every morning. The UK’s top financial regulator has promised further work on bank account closures as a fierce backlash erupted over its initial assessment that politicians were not being denied access to services because of

Receive free Politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Politics news every morning. At least he doesn’t have to podcast. The king’s ransom he made at Bain Capital will ensure that. Whatever disappointments, indignities and mortal threats US politics has visited on Mitt Romney, his retirement needn’t be

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau ignited a firestorm on Monday when he told parliament that authorities were investigating whether “agents” of New Delhi were behind the June killing of a prominent diaspora Sikh activist in a Vancouver suburb. The allegations over the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, if corroborated by evidence, would put the world’s

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Crude oil prices rose in morning trade on Tuesday, stretching investors’ nerves over the impact of inflation as a host of central banks prepare to announce their latest moves on interest rates. Brent crude, the

Receive free Global economic growth updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global economic growth news every morning. Central banks should hold interest rates at their current high levels or raise them further to defeat inflation, the OECD said, despite “increasingly visible” signs of economic strains and protectionism across

Receive free Canada updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Canada news every morning. Canada’s prime minister has said there are “credible allegations” that India’s government was involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia, citing intelligence from national security services. Justin Trudeau on

When bailiffs threatened to change her locks out of the blue, Elizabeth’s first thought was to ring her landlord for help. But it turned out the landlord had not paid his mortgage so the single mother of three was evicted and placed in temporary accommodation by the local council in Oldham, just outside Manchester. “It’s

When Sarah Cardell announced in August that a takeover she had blocked just four months earlier would be investigated afresh, she was at pains to stress that it “was not a green light” for the controversial deal. The head of the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s competition regulator, said the announcement was a response

Receive free UK employment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK employment news every morning. Whenever I do investigative reporting about companies that treat workers badly, there is usually someone who asks, “Why don’t they just leave then? No one is forcing them to work there, are they?”

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to try to get a “much better” Brexit deal for the UK if he wins the general election expected next year. But although the leader of the UK’s opposition Labour party described the deal negotiated by then prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020 as “far too thin”, he has ruled

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Here’s a puzzle for you. The UK’s capital city is one of the world’s most important financial hubs, and yet many Britons find their own money matters are blighted by poor maths. I can’t tell you the amount of times I get the, well, I couldn’t

New Zealand: Prime minister Chris Hipkins squares off against opposition leader Christopher Luxon in the first of three televised debates ahead of a general election on October 14. The ruling Labour Party is sliding in opinion polls. Taiwan: Foxconn tycoon Terry Gou needs to collect about 290,000 voter signatures between today and November 2 to

Receive free Metropolitan Police Service UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Metropolitan Police Service UK news every morning. About 1,600 Metropolitan Police officers and staff are being investigated for alleged violence against women or sexual abuse, figures that expose the historic failure of London’s police force to

Receive free UK labour disputes updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK labour disputes news every morning. Doctors and nurses in England could be forced to work during strikes under government plans to introduce minimum service levels to protect patient safety, health secretary Steve Barclay has announced.   Ministers

Receive free UK financial regulation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK financial regulation news every morning. A review by the chief UK financial regulator has uncovered no evidence that politicians are being denied bank accounts because of their views, according to people briefed on the findings. The

Receive free Post Office Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Post Office Ltd news every morning. Post Office workers wrongfully convicted because of a faulty IT system have been offered £600,000 each in compensation by the UK government, as officials seek to draw a partial line under

Receive free EU trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU trade news every morning. Germany has led condemnation of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia’s unilateral curbs on grain imports from Ukraine, accusing the countries of cherry-picking EU policies and putting their own interests over Ukraine. The remarks by

Receive free Electric vehicles updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Electric vehicles news every morning. The UK car industry has called for tax incentives to help motorists switch to electric vehicles to offset a weakening demand for battery models among private buyers. “Our EV market is emerging from