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Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability

...Another person who attended a briefing said that the government sought to reassure those present that financial institutions were not going to face unnecessary regulation in the wake of a $2.2bn money laundering...

April 21, 2024

Leo Lewis

Are we at peak K-pop? Goldman doesn’t think so

...In a hefty research note the US investment bank argues that investor sentiment on K-pop is “ripe for a turnaround”....

April 4, 2024

FT Live

Managing Operational Risk in M&A Transactions

Examining the value of business licensing and property tax in the deal cycle

ReviewTheatre

Minority Report, Lyric Hammersmith — timely tale of AI thought police rebooted

...David Haig’s new stage adaptation of Minority Report starts, as does Steven Spielberg’s 2002 action movie, with Philip K Dick’s sci-fi novella....

April 30, 2024

Russia

How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat

...Isis-K launched a suicide attack against the Russian embassy in Kabul in September 2022. “Isis-K has even rolled out a Russian-language propaganda wing,” Webber said....

March 24, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Minority Report and the rise of sci-fi on stage

...“What’s brilliant about the Philip K Dick story is it’s got a psychological conundrum in the centre of it,” says Webster. “But it’s not a philosophical exercise or lecture; it’s a crime thriller....

February 13, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: determined player’s aggressive bid sets challenge to bring home thin contract

...North raised to game, and K♠ was led. The bidding told South that spades were dividing 6-2, so he knew to duck once and then, while setting up diamond tricks, try to keep West off lead....

March 6, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Jayasree K Iyer

There are far too many avoidable deaths in childbirth

...The writer is chief executive of the Access to Medicine Foundation In 1934, Kaveri, a 19-year-old girl in Malaya, died of severe bleeding after giving birth to a baby boy. She was my grandmother....

January 17, 2024

News updates from March 14: Chuck Schumer calls for Netanyahu’s replacement; China hits out at US push to ban TikTok as Steven Mnuchin plots bid

Risers and fallers in Europe

...Encavis: Shares in the German renewable electricity company jumped 26 per cent after private equity firm KKR launched a €2.8bn takeover offer....

March 14, 2024

News in-depthTerrorism

How the Taliban’s return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis

...While President Vladimir Putin sought to implicate Ukraine in last week’s attack, a Moscow court specified that all four main suspects were Tajik citizens, a group that forms a significant component of Isis-K...

March 27, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: aggressive auction leads to ambitious contract requiring expert play

...South cashed A♦ and K♠ and went over to dummy with A♠ to play K♦, throwing a spade from hand. When this held, this is trick 11. For his 12th trick, he led dummy’s fourth diamond....

April 17, 2024

Due Diligence

PE+QE made K&E. Will it last? Premium

...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland & Ellis confronts a dealmaking slowdown The PE dealmaker who’s everywhere right now KKR jumps on a deal Carlyle snubbed QE+PE= K&E Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis has...

December 13, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...If West ducks, declarer loses no diamond trick, and can follow with K♣ and a third club, ruffing the fourth one high in dummy. As it is, West almost certainly rises with K♦, and returns his last club....

March 20, 2024

InterviewHybe

Music label behind BTS seeks to recreate K-pop model in America

...The South Korean music label behind K-pop sensation BTS is trying to export its star “production system” to the US as it accelerates a global acquisition push....

December 24, 2023

News updates from October 19: Jordan pauses US Speaker bid, Canada to pull dozens of diplomats from India

Kakao CIO arrested for alleged stock manipulation during K-pop agency takeover

...South Korean authorities have arrested the chief investment officer of internet group Kakao for allegedly manipulating stock prices during a heated acquisition battle for K-pop agency SM Entertainment....

October 19, 2023

Travel

Back to Georgia, where ‘a guest is a gift from God’

...Ushguli lies in the Svaneti region, in the heart of the Caucasus Mountains, and is one of the highest permanently inhabited settlements in Europe, at 2,100m above sea level....

March 7, 2024

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

Bridge - Card game

Ambitious slam looks set to fail on 4-0 trump break: perfect timing is required

...West led K♥ and declarer’s plan was simple: cash A♦, ruff two low diamonds in dummy, draw trumps, and score up the slam. On the bidding, the distribution suited this plan....

April 3, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Islamist terror returns to Russia

...Isis-K struck Russia’s embassy in Kabul in 2022 and has been “fixated” on Russia for two years, according to the Soufan Center, a think-tank....

March 25, 2024

Bridge - Card game

True skill is demonstrated when luck deserts you

...When this loses, East can cash K♠ and lead Q♦, but declarer has time to win A♦, cash J♣, cross to dummy with J♥, and then play A♣ on which he can discard a diamond loser....

March 27, 2024

Skechers USA Inc

Skechers’ family troubles

...The SEC says Skechers: — Failed, in its 2019 10-K, “to disclose that a person sharing the same household as a director and executive officer of Skechers, in 2018, had received $210,000 in compensation as...

March 8, 2024

Letter

Letter: Snails, not naked clams, are the real superfood

...; 15 per cent protein, less fat than chicken or beef, calcium, iron, selenium plus a garnish of vitamins E, A, K and B12....

April 10, 2024

War in Ukraine

Poland arrests man suspected of aiding Russia in plot to kill Zelenskyy

...if convicted, according to a statement....

April 18, 2024

Inside BusinessAnna Nicolaou

The last of pop’s superstars?

...It is little surprise, then, that Universal recently struck a deal to distribute music from HYBE, the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, for the next decade....

April 11, 2024

Shopping and gifts

21 spring buys that do the rounds

...leather Ursula tote bag, £1,840 Prada cotton fringed skirt with eyelet embroidery, £3,500 JW Anderson leather slingback shoes, £690 Ioana Ciolacu tulle body, £136 Chanel metal and resin earrings, £1,075 A.W.A.K.E...

February 9, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Targets matter: do not let your eye or mind stray from it

...East took A♠, returned 2♠, and South won deceptively with K♠ in hand....

December 27, 2023

FT Magazine

‘We’re all maggots’: an audience with Jim Riswold, the copywriter behind some of Nike’s greatest adverts

...as part of a younger generation of copywriters at W+K....

March 9, 2024

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