Ally Bank v. Webster et al

April 4, 2023

From Iraqi oilfields to Tory HQ: how Nadhim Zahawi mixed business and politics

...One grandfather had been governor of the central bank, his signature appearing on Iraq’s banknotes. Aged nine, he watched his father Hareth flee Baghdad....

January 24, 2023

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

ReviewBusiness books

Can Big Tech be tamed? And can we trust those doing the taming?

...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...

September 2, 2021

FT Swamp Notes

The reckless legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu Premium

...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....

May 21, 2021

FTfmJohn Dizard

What is the true value of Burford’s $773m claim against YPF?

...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...

May 1, 2020

Equities

Markets Now - Thursday 14th May 2020

...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....

May 14, 2020

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Equities

Markets Now - Thursday 9th April 2020

...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....

April 9, 2020

FTfmHarvey Sawikin

US sanctions stymie Russian corporate progress

...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....

June 6, 2018

Cordelia Jenkins

Opinion today: How corruption went global

...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....

June 19, 2018

beyondbricsEmerging market investing

Investing in Russia: the good, the bad and the ESG

...I guess it will need an increased ESG focus on Russia and sanctions, or a more active move by the US Treasury et al to question Russian index inclusion and bring a more fundamental re-assessment of Russian...

May 24, 2018

FTfmJohn Dizard

London may be key to ‘hot’ euro-yuan rival to the US dollar

...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....

January 7, 2018

News in-depthDue Diligence

Fox v Sinclair for Tribune Media Premium

...(NYT) Why would a bank pay $400,000 for an Obama speech?...

May 2, 2017

Europe Express

Portugal’s comeback is the eurozone’s socialist success story

...Don’t bank on the German elections A senior official in Germany’s liberal FDP tells The Telegraph his party won’t make life any easier for David Davis et al if they get into government with Angela Merkel...

September 19, 2017

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

The age of innocence

...In our new ally Russia, a thrusting young technocrat named Putin was putting the drunkenness and violence of the Yeltsin years to bed....

September 4, 2015

ReviewFirstFT

Greek talks collapse, Philae awakes, Neymar v Marta

...Omar al-Bashir was in Johannesburg to attend the African Union summit....

June 15, 2015

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

There really isn’t such thing as a policy independent exchange rate anyway

...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...

August 18, 2015

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

A circuit breaker for the Wunderbund?

...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....

May 7, 2015

FT AlphavilleSujeet Indap

Beta max

...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...

June 19, 2015

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

This isn’t the Chinese capital account liberalisation you’re looking for

...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....

July 17, 2015

Westminster blogJim Pickard

Douglas Alexander in the words of his colleagues

...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....

March 5, 2015

beyondbricsOil

Guest post: can Russia ride out cheap oil and the falling rouble?

...The list is fairly long, extending to Russia, Nigeria, Venezuela, et al – all are seeing market weakness reflective of this....

December 1, 2014

Gavyn Davies

The Great Moderation, Version 2.0

...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...

April 13, 2014

Life & Arts

Best books of 2014

...… Nora Webster, by Colm Toíbín, Viking, RRP£18.99 Nora Webster, newly widowed, attempts to shield her two youngest children from her rawest emotions, as well as from well-meaning neighbours....

November 28, 2014

FT AlphavilleEU energy

The 6am London Cut

...(Financial Times) EU proposals for Libor et al to be unveiled today: “[B]enchmarks that are deemed to be “critical” would be overseen by a college of national supervisors led by the Paris-based European...

September 18, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

Argentina’s pari passu upset — redux

...al, and without the stay in place....

August 23, 2013

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