Bank of the Mountains, Inc.

April 11, 2024

Grant Thornton’s retired partners demand bigger payout from private equity sale

...Grant Thornton is the seventh-largest accounting firm in the US with $2.4bn in annual revenue. The sale of a majority stake to New Mountain represents the biggest private equity deal in the sector....

March 29, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthBayer AG

Bill Anderson: the Texan wrestling with Bayer’s mountain of pain

...Facing the loss of exclusivity of some of its best-selling drugs, boxed in by its own bureaucracy, stifled by a heavy debt burden and hounded by costly litigation after the takeover of US seed producer Monsanto...

March 8, 2024

Grant Thornton LLP

Grant Thornton US sells majority stake to private equity

...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...

March 15, 2024

Letter

Letter: Mountain climbers were tougher then

...the British climber who died near the summit of Everest in 1924....

April 12, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Martha Wainwright’s Montreal

...You can see all the way to the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondacks of New York State; you can also count the Leonard Cohen murals....

February 23, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Travel

In the mountains of eastern Turkey, Don McCullin seeks the solace of stone

...Nights are cold in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of south-eastern Turkey, even at the tail-end of summer....

January 19, 2024

Letter

Letter: Why we’re doomed

...Charlie Cump Mountain View, CA, US...

March 13, 2024

Travel

High and dry: exploring Tunisia’s Dahar mountains

...Between this plain and the desert beyond are the Dahar mountains, inhabited by the Amazigh, the indigenous people of north Africa sometimes referred to as the Berbers....

November 25, 2023

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

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

Google LLC

Google streamlines structure to speed up AI efforts

...The reshuffle comes ahead of Google’s first-quarter earnings on 25 April and its annual I/O developer conference on 14 and 15 May at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....

April 18, 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

Chinese equities

Are we making a mountain out of a snowball?

...JPMorgan estimates that among mainstream brokers, the contracts should account for “no more than mid-teens of overall OTC derivatives businesses”, and that the few private banks to sell the products are...

January 23, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

News updates from March 12: US inflation rises to 3.2%; White House warns Israel against ‘smashing into Rafah’

Starling Bank hires Ovo’s Raman Bhatia as chief executive

...Starling Bank has poached energy supplier Ovo’s chief executive Raman Bhatia to lead the London-based neobank following the departure of founder Anne Boden....

March 12, 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

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...

March 20, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Inside the battle for America’s West

...Oliver Roeder But to build 2,000 miles of fresh railroad through the desert and the mountains, you need money....

April 17, 2024

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

The bank argument on the Basel III endgame is bunk

...In the wake of three of the largest bank failures in US history a year ago, the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are all pushing...

March 23, 2024

Bank of Japan

Will the Bank of Japan finally raise interest rates?

...Kate Duguid Will the Bank of England hint at interest rate cuts?...

March 17, 2024

FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich

The Dolder Grand: James Bond meets ‘The Magic Mountain’ . . .

...The Magic Mountain meets James Bond, with an occasional sprinkling of Walt Disney. The hotel is an excellent place for a longer stay in the city....

February 26, 2024

Travel

Krone Säumerei: haute cuisine in the high mountains

...The alcoves around the blissfully comfortable Hüsler Nest beds are lined in larch, from which the bespoke furniture is also made. (Every window has a built-in seat; most have a mountain view.)...

October 26, 2023

Instant InsightRobin Harding

The big test is yet to come for the Bank of Japan

...In its decision, the central bank proudly notes the prospect “that the price stability target of 2 per cent would be achieved in a sustainable and stable manner”....

March 19, 2024

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