Pilita Clark’s picks for summer reading about the environment
US retail banks cut their branch networks and trimmed headcount in the first half of the year, and Brussels' historic attempt to tackle climate change faces a wall of opposition from governments in th...
16 Jul 202110min
Artist Damien Hirst issues his own ‘Currency’
The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, sought to ease concerns in Congress about the Federal Reserve’s response to surging inflation, the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse last w...
15 Jul 20218min
The index of everything
Visa and Mastercard have left open key gateways between Binance and the financial system despite rising regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency, the pace of US consumer price increases accelerated u...
14 Jul 20219min
The European Central Bank focuses on climate change
David Cameron was paid a salary of more than $1m by Greensill Capital, the finance company whose dramatic collapse exposed the former UK prime minister’s extensive lobbying efforts, and US banks will ...
13 Jul 20219min
EU’s Andreas Schwab responds to White House criticism of EU tech regulation
The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant is causing concern about Europe’s economic recovery, and the number of start-ups valued above $1bn grew rapidly in the second quarter. Plus, the FT’s ...
12 Jul 20219min
Martin Wolf's summer reading list
The UK’s advertising watchdog says it will clamp down on misleading marketing for crypto investments, and stock markets dropped on Thursday on rising concerns about prospects for the global economy. P...
9 Jul 202111min
A wave of private equity buyouts in the UK prompts concern
Former president Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, as well as their respective chief executives, in lawsuits alleging “unlawful censorship” of Americans, the new Delta vari...
8 Jul 20219min
What did Didi’s bankers know before the IPO?
Didi lost a fifth of its market value after Chinese regulators announced an investigation into the ride-hailing app that last week raised more than $4bn in a New York IPO, the Opec impasse highlights ...
7 Jul 20218min
