American Bank of the North

April 19, 2024

The investment bank being dubbed ‘Goldman North’ Premium

...Its uptown location and growing number of Goldman Sachs alumni has even earned the firm the nickname “Goldman North.” Another Evercore banker put it differently: It’s “Goldman without the bullshit”....

March 13, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Evercore

How M&A boutique Evercore became ‘Goldman North’

...Still, Weinberg’s arrival from downtown rival Goldman in 2016 validated Evercore’s model — and marked a new era of ascendancy that has earned the uptown firm the nickname “Goldman North”....

March 13, 2024

Rana Foroohar

The great American transport crisis tells us something

...But the Jones Act, a 1920 law, requires any maritime vehicle transporting goods between two American ports to be built, owned and crewed in the US for security reasons....

April 7, 2024

Inter-American Development Bank

Latin American development bank to ramp up lending after reforms

...The Inter-American Development Bank on Sunday won board approval for the moves at its annual meeting in the Dominican Republic, including sweeping changes under which it will focus on fewer, bigger loans...

March 10, 2024

ObituaryFinancial services

James Robinson III, American Express executive, 1935-2024

...That’s when he got a call from James Robinson III, who was then the chief executive of American Express and the biggest power broker on Wall Street....

March 21, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

FT Swamp Notes

Tyler Cowen: Why we will learn to love AI Premium

...Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which argued that the age of disruptive technology was over, came out around the same time....

April 19, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Dogland — behind the scenes at the Westminster Dog Show

...Making space for a dog, according to Tomlinson, is one of the main factors motivating first-time American homebuyers....

April 3, 2024

Holcim Group

Switzerland’s Holcim plans to spin off US cement business

...Under the plan laid out on Sunday, Holcim will complete a “full capital market separation” of its North American business, with the final structure of the spin-off due to be finalised later this year and...

January 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: How to end the influence of money in US elections

...did not extend American citizenship to people of Black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens) and the 19th amendment...

March 8, 2024

Shipping

CMA CGM and Air France-KLM abandon air cargo alliance

...French shipping group CMA CGM and carrier Air France-KLM are scrapping an air cargo partnership after struggling to get US approval to operate North American routes and deliver on the project’s promise in...

January 16, 2024

News in-depthParaguay

The ex-leader, the bribery claims and the threat to Paraguay’s star economy

...“Peña . . . presents a very good, professional image of Paraguay,” said Mariano Ortiz, senior economist at investment bank BancTrust....

March 3, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

It’s central bank week!

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 18, 2024

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...By the mid-1800s, the US bracketed the landmass called North America....

April 13, 2024

Janan Ganesh

Welcome to the era of the non-state actor

...On current evidence, the winner of the post-American world isn’t China. It is the non-state actor....

January 30, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

UK economy

Bracing for the Bank of England’s forecasting review

...Meanwhile, the Bank of England MPC consists of nine policy makers and a common staff....

April 5, 2024

US equities

From Mongolian football to the ‘Pasta Prince of LA’

...” that owns other clubs in North Macedonia, Italy and Mozambique....

March 8, 2024

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Why are American roads so dangerous?

...So committed are Americans to their cars that 63 per cent of people choose to drive for trips of less than a mile, compared with 16 per cent in the UK....

April 19, 2024

ReviewFiction

Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars — a polyphonic saga of Native American experience

...The inheritance of grief illuminates Wandering Stars — the burden and balm of personal histories, and the fact of white Americans’ genocide against the country’s own people....

March 21, 2024

Letter

Letter: Bank of England financial stability is an issue too

...In light of the Bernanke review of the economic forecasting methods that support monetary policy at the Bank of England, there would appear to be a strong case for a parallel independent review of the analytical...

April 17, 2024

Banks

The $1tn ‘hold-to-maturity’ sleight-of-accounting

...Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset declines, banks used accounting reclassification to diminish the impact of interest rate increases on book capital....

April 3, 2024

The Trump machine

The uneasy truce between Donald Trump and Fox News

...faction of Americans who view Fox News as too moderate....

April 4, 2024

Fiction

James by Percival Everett — a master at the peak of his powers

...From the satirical depiction of the mythic American frontier in God’s Country (1994) to a trenchant critique of the publishing industry’s institutional racism in 2001’s Erasure (recently adapted as the Oscar-winning...

April 3, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bank of Japan’s tricky path to normalisation

...But on Tuesday, after eight years in the negative, the Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda pulled it off in smooth style....

March 20, 2024

News in-depthBank of England

Ben Bernanke’s brutal verdict on the Bank of England

...Ben Bernanke was brutally honest about the failings of the Bank of England’s economic modelling when he published a long-awaited review of its forecasting processes on Friday....

April 12, 2024

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