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. The Chinese shadow bank at the heart of concerns over missed payments to customers has lent money to several of the country’s struggling property developers, according to a Financial
Receive free Social affairs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Social affairs news every morning. The internet is moving from an age of prurience to one of protection. A sudden rush of age-verification laws designed to stop children from accessing explicit content is about to change the way
Receive free Parenting and families updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Parenting and families news every morning. I don’t remember exactly when the thought struck me but at some point this year I realised that if employers did an audit to see how many of their staff were
Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their
In March, Tim Cook was among the first batch of foreign executives to land in Beijing to court high-level officials after the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions, with Apple’s chief lauding how the company and China had grown together in a “symbiotic relationship”. Six months on, that relationship is under strain. Apple is facing new competitive
Top Stories This Week Paxos confirms it’s responsible for paying a $500K Bitcoin transaction fee The Bitcoin miner who received 19.8 BTC in fees from blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos has returned the funds following Paxos’ claim that it made a mistake in paying over $500,000 in transfer fees. On Sept. 10, Paxos paid the six-figure
Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Arm’s $5bn initial public offering this week was the most expensive in fees for five years, earning a $84mn windfall for the professional services firms that advised it, including Deloitte. The SoftBank-backed chip
Receive free European Investment Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest European Investment Bank news every morning. Germany’s ruling coalition is split over who to support in the race for the leadership of the bloc’s biggest lender, as EU finance ministers discussed the issue on Saturday. Chancellor Olaf
It might seem obvious that you’d want to work with a broker who has high standards when you’re selling your home or commercial property. Certainly, there are various requirements that salespeople must have to operate in the market. However, it can be important to check for signs that the broker will act ethically throughout the
In this article CTLT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rows of glass vials in a biologics laboratory in Sweden. Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg Bloomberg Creative | Bloomberg Creative Photos | Getty Images Company: Catalent (CTLT) Business: Catalent develops and manufactures solutions for drugs, protein-based biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products worldwide. The
EmirMemedovski | E+ | Getty Images This August, two years into their relationship, Yumi Temple and her boyfriend, Daniel, moved into their first apartment together, in Denver. It was Temple’s first time living with another person, outside of family, and she quickly learned there was a lot to navigate. The couple decided to see a
Receive free Daniel Křetínský updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Daniel Křetínský news every morning. Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský has entered the auction to acquire the UK’s Telegraph Media Group, joining bidders including Daily Mail and General Trust, people close to the process said. Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon
Receive free UK society updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK society news every morning. A longstanding dispute over membership of one of London’s most exclusive clubs has reignited after a lawyer who said that women could be excluded from the Garrick Club changed his mind. The gentlemen’s
Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu told a China-Africa security forum in Beijing last month that the world was entering a new period of “instability”. Just over two weeks later, officials and experts outside China are raising questions about the durability of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s cabinet, after Li became the second high-profile minister to disappear
Receive free SoftBank Group Corp updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest SoftBank Group Corp news every morning. SoftBank is on the hunt for deals in artificial intelligence, including a potential investment in OpenAI, after the blockbuster listing of UK chip designer Arm bolstered Masayoshi Son’s multibillion-dollar war chest.
Receive free Indian election updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian election news every morning. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his party are seizing on a publicity boost from hosting the G20 summit last weekend to kick off a busy campaign season that will culminate with national
Receive free Rugby updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Rugby news every morning. France’s sports minister is so eager to “reconcile” with England fans irritated by poor organisation at Rugby World Cup games that she will attend their next match on Sunday to monitor security, transport and even
Receive free UK infrastructure updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK infrastructure news every morning. As the UK reeled from revelations of unsafe bubbly concrete in schools this month, construction experts who had gathered in Prague to celebrate the material were frantically gleaning details of the scandal engulfing
Let’s make this clear up front. I don’t know any personal secrets about Bernard Looney and in an ideal world none of us would want to. The BP chief executive quit this week after admitting he had failed to fully disclose his past relationships with work colleagues. His resignation came after the oil company received
Yesterday I attended a fascinating real estate investors’ conference for hedge funds, lenders and owners. The talk of the conference was the almost complete inability of landlords (other than owners of tier 1 properties), to get any financing at all, except at exorbitant rates around 15% which is more than double the current financing that
Receive free Keir Starmer updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Keir Starmer news every morning. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour party leader, will pledge on Saturday to boost Britain’s standing in the world and repair “the smouldering cinders of the bridges the Tories have burnt”, as he seeks