Leaders under pressure: Pascal Soriot 1/4
Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the Anglo-Swedish drugs company AstraZeneca, tells Andrew Hill about his 2014 battle to head off a hostile takeover bid from Pfizer of the US. Hosted on Acast. See ac...
27 Dec 201613min
Factory revival brings hope to Cumbria town
It was a familiar story: a small town, a big factory, overseas owners and job cuts, another tear in the social fabric of an English community. Except that in Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, ...
23 Dec 20165min
Megadeals of 2016
For the world's largest and most influential companies, 2016 brought plenty of megadeals, controversies, crises and some big cross border investments. Matthew Vincent discusses the most notable of th...
21 Dec 20168min
Berlin terror attack shocks Germany
A terror attack on a Christmas market in Berlin has shocked Germany and seems likely to add to pressure on Angela Merkel, the chancellor, over her decision to welcome so many refugees from the Middle ...
20 Dec 20164min
Lloyds boosts UK credit card business with MBNA deal
LLoyds Bank has struck a £1.9bn deal to buy credit card company MBNA from a subsidiary of Bank of America, in its first acquisition since a taxpayer-funded rescue more than seven years ago. Patrick Je...
20 Dec 20165min
Congo teeters on the brink
Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was credited with helping broker the end of the country's bloody civil war in 2003. But after two terms in office, his refusal to step dow...
19 Dec 20167min
Regulators crack down on shoddy auditing
Deloitte’s Brazilian arm was fined a record $8m this month for falsifying reports and providing false testimony during an investigation into the audits of a low-cost airline. This case and others like...
15 Dec 20166min
Boeing's landmark aircraft deal with Iran
Boeing has signed a $16.6bn deal with Iran’s national carrier in the first major deal between a US company and Iran since the 1979 revolution. Matthew Vincent asks Peggy Hollinger, FT industry editor,...
14 Dec 20168min
