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April 2, 2024

US buyout firm CD&R hires former Tesco chief Dave Lewis

...Leahy said that in recent years CD&R had “never really been able to do a consumer deal”, adding: “They’ve all been retail deals and also we’ve never really done a leisure or consumer services deal.”...

January 15, 2024

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InterviewArtificial intelligence

BCG says AI consulting will supply 20% of revenues this year

...They worked quicker and work was of a higher quality....

April 23, 2024

LexIntuit Inc

AI boom can even work on your taxes Premium

...Smaller rival H&R Block trades on a multiple of only 12 times. But this premium has more to do with bog-standard accounting than cutting-edge tech....

April 22, 2024

FT Wealth Management

Advisers tailor their services as women grow richer

...Rebecca Gooch, global head of insights for Deloitte Private, a division of the Big Four consultancy group, says: “Women can gravitate towards investments and services that resonate with their values, ensure...

April 26, 2024

LexApple Inc

Apple’s buyback bonanza could be casualty of antitrust crackdown Premium

...Over the past 10 years the size of its buyback scheme dwarfs both its R&D spend and the buyback schemes from peers, adding up to a total of $658bn, according to data from S&P Global....

March 27, 2024

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Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Mergers & Acquisitions

CD&R’s Morrisons sells petrol forecourts to sister company MFG for £2.5bn

...CD&R bought MFG for £500mn nearly a decade ago....

January 30, 2024

Sovereign bonds

Longevity killed the R-star

...R* star is a fun concept (and a fun but now sadly limited-edition T-shirt as well)....

November 30, 2023

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Where is the Fed’s interest rate heading? Premium

...These models do not even agree with past versions of themselves, partly because the main determinant of R-star in the model is the potential growth rate — itself a made up number....

April 23, 2024

HM Revenue & Customs

HMRC undermining innovation by failing to award R&D tax credits, say start-ups

...R&D tax credits are designed to support companies that work on cutting-edge projects and form a crucial part of a wider government pledge to make Britain a “tech superpower” by 2030....

April 1, 2024

Letter

Letter: US air strikes show limits of Middle East deterrence

...Daniel R DePetris Fellow, Defense Priorities (a Washington DC Think-Tank) New Rochelle, NY, US...

February 9, 2024

Chinese espionage

Germany accuses couple of spying for China

...The first such project was a study on “state of the art machine parts”, which play a crucial role in the operation of modern combat ship propulsion systems....

April 22, 2024

News updates from April 12: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76

Risers and fallers in Europe

...Société Générale: Shares in the French financial services group rose 4.5 per cent after it announced a deal with Saham Group to sell Société Générale Marocaine de Banques and La Marocaine Vie in a transaction...

April 12, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Erika de Casier: Still album review — softly sung R&B that holds centre stage

...Meanwhile, the songs transpose R&B’s focus on sex and romantic drama to a sleekly drawn landscape of office work, grey Copenhagen skies, faces on screens and bodies in beds....

February 21, 2024

Letter

Letter: Indonesia’s new leader can build on Jokowi’s progress

...Finally, Indonesia remains heavily dependent on the import of goods and services....

February 23, 2024

FT Live

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Igniting a new era of innovation and investment

News in-depthPolitical espionage

Case of alleged Russian spy offers a glimpse of shadowy world of intelligence

...It was during a London visit in April that he was asked to meet members of the UK and US security services....

February 10, 2024

Financial services

How’s the PE Winter looking?

...That’s around a quarter of an Nvidia or a single SPDR S&P 500 ETF. Things have changed....

April 25, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Usher: Coming Home album review — classic R&B marooned in the past

...Apparently it will pay tribute to the history of R&B, which is promising: Usher is a formidable song-and-dance man. He has also hinted at a tribute to his hometown Atlanta’s strip clubs....

February 9, 2024

John Gapper

Convenience stores should make more of themselves

...In the remotest parts of Japan, there is usually a vending machine, and a friendly shop....

February 16, 2024

InterviewAccountancy

RSM rules out radical changes to accounting partnership model

...Becker cited RSM’s own history as a reason for not wanting to follow suit. For 12 years until 2011, the firm — then known as RSM McGladrey — was part of the publicly listed tax preparer H&R Block....

January 3, 2024

LexBasic resources

Nippon Steel/US Steel: Japan Inc must recall lessons of history Premium

...A Japanese foray into US dealmaking four decades ago raised the hackles of locals and proved financially disappointing for the incomers. The former is already true of Nippon Steel’s offer....

December 18, 2023

Barclays PLC

Barclays to buy most of Tesco’s banking business for £600mn

...Barclays has agreed to buy the bulk of Tesco’s banking business in a £600mn deal, as UK supermarket chains accelerate their retreat from an ill-fated expansion into financial services....

February 9, 2024

Inside BusinessRichard Waters

Apple’s slow-burn approach to products

...Spending on R&D reached nearly 8 per cent of revenue last year, up from just over 2 per cent a decade ago....

January 25, 2024

LexTP ICAP

Brexit isn’t working for this City broker Premium

...The fact is that a large chunk of the company’s core brokerage services remains under pressure. Business has picked up with interest rate rises....

March 21, 2024

Apple Inc

Apple removes WhatsApp from China store under pressure from Beijing

...Threads, a Twitter-like offshoot of the Instagram photo and video platform, was the fourth most downloaded service in app stores worldwide in December, according to Appfigures....

April 19, 2024

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