FT News in Focus

Europe’s top five investment banks are now making less than half as much revenue as the top five US operators, which beat their European rivals on almost every financial measure last year. Patrick Jen...

9 Mar 20162min

Three years after the UK government began slashing welfare benefits, Financial Times reporters looked at the impact of the cuts on some of the poorest parts of the country. Barney Thompson discusses t...

9 Mar 20168min

Harnessing the electronic signals of the human nervous system to treat diseases has been described as the next great frontier in medical science. Andrew Ward discusses the possiblities and risks with...

8 Mar 20167min

Women activists played a prominent role in Iran's recent parliamentary elections, campaigning on social media and urging women to come out and vote. Minou Khaleghi, one of 14 newly-elected women MPs,...

7 Mar 20164min

The US economy added an unexpected 242,000 jobs in February, exceeding economists' forecasts significantly and easing market concerns of a recession. But clouds remain over a lack of wage rises. The F...

4 Mar 20167min

EU leaders are preparing for an emergency summit against a grim backdrop: desperate scenes at the Greece-Macedonia border, where crowds of migrants are being beaten back from storming a fence with sal...

2 Mar 20163min

Deutsche Börse is seeking to merge with the London Stock Exchange, potentially creating an important bridge between the London and Frankfurt financial centres. But it is not the only prospective bidde...

1 Mar 20165min

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who heads Poland's Law and Justice Party, is leading a conservative counter-revolution that some see as anti-democractic. Henry Foy, the FT's Warsaw correspondent, was granted a ...

26 Feb 20169min