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China International Capital Corp Ltd
Investment bank CICC wants to be ‘bridge’ for Chinese companies in south-east Asia
...The most active Chinese investment bank in offshore dealmaking, CICC reported revenues of Rmb18.6bn ($2.6bn) in the first half of 2023, a 5 per cent increase on a year earlier....
March 18, 2024
Bank of America Corp
Bank of America profits fall on loan losses
...The bank wrote off $1.5bn worth of loans in the first quarter, with $500mn of that tied to the struggling office market....
April 16, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthNikkei Asia
Majority of south-east Asians favour China over US, survey finds
...Last year south-east Asia’s largest economy opened the region’s first high-speed railway, which was jointly built with China....
April 10, 2024
Mortgages
UK mortgage demand returns to growth in first quarter
...The index, which tracks the proportion of lenders reporting an increase in demand for home loans versus those reporting a decrease, rose to 35.9 in the first quarter, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly...
April 11, 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
Letter
Letter: Not my idea of redistribution
...But why don’t banks pass on the benefits to their customers? Professor Bruce Lloyd London South Bank UniversityLondon SE1O, UK...
March 1, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
Should I open a bank account with my partner?
...Laura Phillips, legal director at law firm Kingsley Napley, says a good first step would be to investigate the preparation and execution of your aunt’s will....
March 13, 2024
News in-depthBank of England
Ben Bernanke’s brutal verdict on the Bank of England
...“It would have been clear, transparent and similar to the procedures of the central banks in the US, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand and South Africa,” Dales said....
April 12, 2024
The best books of the week
Reading Genesis — Marilynne Robinson’s new insights on the first book of the Bible
...Of the opening line of Genesis (“In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth”), she comments, “When I think there was a day when a human hand first wrote those words, I am filled with awe.”...
April 11, 2024
David Pilling
The bullish case for South Africa
...economist at Standard Bank, who also thinks South Africa may surprise on the upside....
March 11, 2024
News in-depthSouth Korea Politics & Policy
South Korean first lady’s $2,000 Dior handbag triggers graft accusations
...A political furore over a luxury handbag gifted to South Korea’s first lady caused a rupture at the top of the country’s ruling party this week, drawing accusations of abuse of power less than three months...
January 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: Avoid flawed history when calling for slave reparations
...Richard DaleAuthor, ‘The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble’Emeritus Professor, Southampton University, UK...
March 12, 2024
News in-depthSouth African politics
‘Wrecking ball’ ex-president Jacob Zuma upends South Africa election
...the electoral calculus in a vote that threatens to overturn President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC majority for the first time in three decades....
April 15, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The Bernanke review is only a starting point
...Few central banks have emerged from the past three years of inflation fighting with the same credibility they had before. The Bank of England has had a particularly hard time....
April 12, 2024
InterviewAirlines
South African Airways seeks new investor and listing after aborted deal, chief says
...He added that the carrier last year made its first profit since 2011. “You can’t have an airline run entirely by the government....
March 20, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
The Big Read
The pensioners and babies behind a new era of climate lawsuits
...south of the country, whose crops have been affected by an unusually extreme cold snap this year....
April 12, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
It’s central bank week!
...Plus, after years of negative news surrounding South Africa, there are grounds for medium-term optimism....
March 18, 2024
South Korean business & finance
South Korea says banks ‘mis-sold’ China-linked derivatives
...The FSS said the government would reform the equity-linked securities sales system, criticising a lack of internal controls among banks, which included Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank....
March 11, 2024
UK economy
Bracing for the Bank of England’s forecasting review
...On the first point, MainFT reports Bailey said the changes coming will include “entail increased investment in the bank’s IT systems”....
April 5, 2024
South African economy
South Africa central bank chief signals caution on rate cuts
...South African Reserve Bank chief Lesetja Kganyago told the Financial Times in an interview that “the job of taming inflation is not yet done” in Africa’s most industrial economy, despite central bank peers...
February 18, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
The magisterial remastering of the Grand Palais
...The effect was contentious from day one. An early critic compared it to “an enormous whale stranded pitifully on the banks of the Seine”....
March 20, 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
News updates from April 3: Iger defeats Peltz in Disney proxy war; Eurozone inflation falls to 2.4%
S&P 500 notches first gain of the second quarter
...The S&P 500 notched its first gain of the week, recovering from a back-to-back decline, as traders took in new data that indicated a softening US economy....
April 3, 2024
News updates from April 4: British billionaire avoids prison for insider trading; Italy seizes assets in EU fund fraud case
S&P 500 notches first gain of the second quarter
...The S&P 500 notched its first gain of the week, recovering from a back-to-back decline, as traders took in new data that indicated a softening US economy....
April 3, 2024
Semiconductors
Nvidia supplier to set up pilot plant in Malaysia
...“Kinsus’s bid in Malaysia has strong symbolic meaning, as it is the first Taiwanese substrate supplier trying to build a presence in south-east Asia,” she said....
January 23, 2024

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