China’s widening tech crackdown
KKR is expanding its operations to target more takeovers in the UK, ransomware hackers hit more than 1,000 companies in what appears to be one of the largest supply chain attacks to date, and oil pric...
6 Jul 20218min
Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic, our FT audio deep dive into the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. If you enjoyed this episode, click here to subscribe to Tech Tonic. T...
5 Jul 202124min
What the Apple Daily closure means for the free press in Hong Kong
The world’s leading economies have signed up to a plan that looks to force multinational companies to pay a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, economists believe that the Federal Reserv...
2 Jul 202110min
How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown
Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company...
1 Jul 20219min
Inside the secretive private equity firm behind the £6.8bn Asda buyout
Today the UK will set out a plan for a simpler, more “nimble” post-Brexit system of state subsidies, and the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi is anticipating a wave of infrastructure spending as it bets ...
30 Jun 20219min
The frontrunner to replace Angela Merkel talks the CDU and Germany’s economy
A US judge has dismissed two antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, investors are reassessing their conviction in the reflation trade that has captivated Wall Street this year after a hawkish tilt by th...
29 Jun 202110min
The Amazon wage effect
The UK’s financial watchdog has ordered crypto exchange Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain, and Denmark’s media industry is pioneering a new bargaining tactic to try and make Google a...
28 Jun 20218min
Biden strikes infrastructure deal, Bitcoin’s plunge
US President Joe Biden has secured a deal on an infrastructure package worth about $1tn to spend on upgrading roads, bridges and broadband networks over the next eight years, and the US Federal Reserv...
25 Jun 202110min
