Nonfungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea says it is unaware of any evidence pointing to a former employee being involved in the infamous AnubisDAO rug pull in 2021 following new accusations on social media. In an Oct. 6 thread on X (formerly Twitter), the anonymous account NFT Ethics tagged OpenSea, asking it to respond to accusations
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Metro Bank myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Metro Bank has struck a financing deal with investors after a weekend of negotiations that should give the UK challenger bank some breathing space and fill a capital hole that had prompted talks with regulators.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, will on Monday propose planning reforms which she claims will speed up the building of crucial infrastructure to boost Britain’s economic growth rate. Among the proposals that she is expected to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the The FT View myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Not since 1948, the year of its founding, has Israel suffered such a brazen and bloody assault within its own borders. The surprise dawn onslaught by Hamas comprised attacks by land, sea and air,
Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel struck a blow to US President Joe Biden’s efforts to secure a grand bargain that normalises relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as the fighting is set to reshape the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike many of his predecessors, Biden has made no direct effort to foster peace talks
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s conservative opposition won two decisive victories in regional elections on Sunday, while the three parties in chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition saw their share of their vote shrink in both states. But the day’s
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wars unite nations. The shock and horror of the Hamas attacks on Israel have brought a deeply divided country together. It is possible that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, may now form a national
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global economic growth myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Momentum in advanced and emerging markets has slowed towards its weakest levels since the world emerged from the Covid-19 lockdowns, with the US standing as one of the few economic bright spots as rising
The voice on the recording was calm and precise as it delivered a message of horror. “In light of the continuing crimes against our people, in light of the orgy of occupation and its denial of international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and western support, we’ve decided to put an end to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Metro Bank myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. JPMorgan Chase studied a bid for Metro Bank before opting not to proceed, as the UK challenger bank seeks to shore up its balance sheet. The US banking group decided on Saturday night that it
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Credit cards myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A drop in credit card spending is raising concerns about the financial health of the US consumer and the outlook for holiday sales as cardholders face record-high interest charges. The fall in card spending comes
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The last that relatives of paramedic Amit Maan, 22, heard from her was a desperate voice message on Saturday as she tried to take shelter from Hamas militants in the clinic of the Be’eri kibbutz in southern Israel. “Please make it stop, please make it stop . . . where is the army?” Maan pleaded as automatic weapon fire
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Labour Party UK myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned his party not to get “giddy” after its emphatic by-election win in Rutherglen as it maintains a 16-point lead ahead of the Conservatives with a general election
Bitcoin (BTC) kept up renewed pressure on $28,000 into the Oct. 8 weekly close as geopolitical uncertainty entered traders’ radar. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Trader: Bitcoin behavior at resistance “not the best” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price performance avoiding downside volatility over the weekend. The pair recovered from a
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Afghanistan myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Several hundred people have been killed in an earthquake in western Afghanistan, Taliban officials said, one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the isolated country in years. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck an area near Herat,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel faced a “long and difficult war”, as its forces continued to wage gun battles with Palestinian militants on Sunday morning following the unprecedented multipronged attack by Hamas that stunned the
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said that she had spoken to Israeli president Isaac Herzog to convey her “full support”. “I reiterate that Israel has the right to self-defence,” she wrote on Twitter, formerly X. Von der Leyen added that she condemned “in the strongest possible terms, the senseless attack perpetrated against Israel
Bank of America, Barclays and other large banks that got stuck holding billions of dollars of leveraged loans in 2022 are sitting on the sidelines this year even as the buyout market revives. The group has become more reluctant to lead the financing for riskier buyouts, worried that the loans could get stuck on their
Italy’s departing central bank governor has urged prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government to soothe investors’ fears about the country’s debts by reducing its fiscal deficit and tackling reforms needed to boost growth. Ignazio Visco, who steps down at the end of this month after 12 years leading the Bank of Italy, told the Financial Times
If you haven’t heard that financial storyteller extraordinaire Michael Lewis has a new book out, on the rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX founder and alleged fraudster extraordinaire Sam Bankman-Fried, then you probably don’t spend an awful lot of time on the internet. Well done you. Those of you who do will know that