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The CBI’s website is groaning with “thought leadership” articles about corporate culture, inclusion and transparency. Would you like to create a “culture of belonging” at your business, perhaps? Or “improve workforce wellbeing”? Maybe go “further, faster” on the “moral question” of diversity and inclusion? Well, the CBI has your back. Which is more than its

Will Japan abandon its ultra-loose monetary policies now that Kazuo Ueda has replaced Haruhiko Kuroda as governor of the Bank of Japan? The answer, it seems, is “no”. The new governor, a well-known and respected academic economist, stressed that the two pillars of Japan’s current monetary policy — negative interest rates and yield curve control

Over the past three years the global economy has been subjected to an unprecedented series of shocks. After the pandemic struck, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought added disruption. Both contributed to a cost of living crisis, with central banks raising interest rates rapidly to contain runaway inflation. Arguably, the international economic system has displayed remarkable

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son will this week sign off on an agreement with Nasdaq to list chip designer Arm, setting in motion a blockbuster initial public offering as early as this autumn. According to two people familiar with the situation, the Japanese investment group and New York exchange reached a tentative agreement over Arm’s proposed

Who better to walk you through the banking sector’s March madness and offer their thoughts on systemic financial stress than… Credit Suisse? Notes from the bank analysis team at CS have come admirably thick and fast, even after their employer collapsed and was subsequently folded into rival UBS last month. But there’s a rather large Swiss

At least 100 apparently classified documents have been leaked online in the most significant unauthorised release of US intelligence material since the large-scale disclosures by former contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. The documents largely relate to the war in Ukraine, including recent battlefield information, but also include details intercepted by the US from allies including

A top official at the IMF has warned of “acute” risks to the global financial system and said weaker banks face further pressure if central banks continue ratcheting up rates to squash inflation. In an interview with the Financial Times, Tobias Adrian, director of the fund’s monetary and capital markets department, struck a downbeat tone

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s efforts to revitalise the UK economy have not been sufficient to raise it from the foot of the global league table this year, according to forecasts published by the IMF on Tuesday. In its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, the fund predicted that the UK economy would shrink by 0.3 per cent in

The IMF has warned of a “hard landing” for the global economy if persistently troublesome inflation keeps interest rates higher for longer and amplifies financial risks. Although the fund left its overall economic forecasts largely unchanged from January in its latest World Economic Outlook, published on Tuesday, it stressed that signs of resilience alongside lower

Three Aprils ago, Sir Keir Starmer took over a UK Labour party in the electoral and moral pits. He lost his first 18 months to a pandemic that made the role of opposing the Conservative government seem almost unpatriotic. He has the “help” of a shadow cabinet that, as a gathering of talent in one

CBI director-general Tony Danker has been sacked with immediate effect following an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment at the employers’ organisation. He will be replaced by Rain Newton-Smith, the UK lobby group’s former chief economist, who will return as director-general after a brief spell as a managing director for policy at Barclays. The dismissal

European stocks advanced at the opening on Tuesday, as investors took heart from a late rally on Wall Street and looked towards the possibility of more interest rate increases from the European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve. The region-wide Stoxx 600 rose 0.5 per cent, while Germany’s Dax and France’s Cac 40 were up

The writer is a financial journalist and author of ‘More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy’ The recent turmoil in financial markets is a sign of a longer term problem. More than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation has proved to be far from transitory. That has meant government bond yields, while

Low-income countries will face their biggest bills for servicing foreign debts in a quarter of a century this year, putting spending on health and education at risk. Repayments on public debt owed to non-residents for a group of 91 of the world’s poorest countries will take up an average of more than 16 per cent

Yasin Üztürk, an ethnic Uyghur who runs a barber shop in Istanbul, never expected to become the target of a Chinese intelligence operation. Fearful for the safety of his parents back home in China, he avoided political protests and speaking out about rights abuses in Xinjiang. Then he spotted one of his customers surreptitiously photographing

The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts After a decade of radical financial regulatory reform, designed to rid the world of institutions that were “too big to fail”, this time was meant to be different. Alas, not. Not only the big (Credit Suisse) but the medium-sized (SVB) were

One of the things that makes policymaking easier in the modern world is that we know more. We have better information about outcomes, a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t and — thanks to advances in technology — we can use algorithms and machine learning to make better-informed decisions. But better-informed decisions aren’t

Under cloudy skies in Warwickshire last month, a 2,000-tonne boring machine nicknamed “Dorothy” tore through a concrete wall to complete the first in a series of tunnels that will eventually carry high-speed trains under the English countryside. The breakthrough moment provided a much-needed boost for HS2, the controversial high-speed rail project that was originally envisaged

Twitter’s ex-leader Parag Agrawal and two other former executives are suing the Elon Musk-owned social media platform for failing to cover more than $1mn in personal legal expenses, including those related to an investigation by the US Department of Justice. Agrawal, Twitter’s former general counsel Vijaya Gadde and Ned Segal, former chief financial officer, were

Thousands of junior doctors in England will begin an unprecedented four days of strike action on Tuesday, forcing an estimated 350,000 appointments and operations to be cancelled as the NHS focuses on urgent and critical care. Around the country, hospital trusts are scrambling to fill gaps in rotas, deploying consultants, nurses and other health professionals

The biggest blank cheque company in Europe, backed by LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier, is set to be wound up after failing to find a target in the financial services sector. Pegasus Europe has announced that it will cease operations and is preparing to return capital to its investors