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Cyber Security
UK trade unions hit by spate of cyber attacks
...Two UK trade unions have fallen victim to cyber attacks within the past month, as hackers seek to target valuable data about their staff and tens of thousands of members....
April 10, 2024
Britain after Brexit
A ghost of Brexit past returns to haunt Labour Premium content
...“We have set out clear red lines on the future of our relationship with the European Union: no return to the single market, the customs union or return to freedom of movement,” he told Peter Foster, your...
April 11, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Katie Martin
Who’s going to win the next financial plumbing test? The US, of course
...All this involves a vast network of achingly tedious but crucial plumbing that generally troubles only the tens of thousands of people directly employed in the field or serious markets anoraks....
March 20, 2024
UK local elections
UK ‘pothole crisis’ threatens Conservative party ahead of local elections
...For Labour the craters are a sign of a country falling apart and the opposition party is making the issue a key part of its campaign ahead of local elections on May 2 and a general election expected later...
April 16, 2024
InterviewGlobal trade
Green trade rules are ‘biased’, says Indian minister
...India’s commerce minister has said that trade policy has no role in fighting climate change, dealing a blow to hopes of tackling global warming through trade deals....
February 29, 2024
Inside BusinessKana Inagaki
Are Japan’s managers ready for the revival of trade unions?
...And those clashes may no longer be confined to outside of Japan. Back in the 1970s, the country’s trade unions also used to strike terror into the hearts of corporate managers....
February 28, 2024
FT Live
Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers
Wednesday, 12 June237 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
House & Home
What does ‘local’ actually mean?
...Independent business owners seem to understand the trade-offs of buying local better than some of their more zealously locavore customers and, as a result, tend to be more pragmatic....
March 30, 2024
Soumaya Keynes
A second dose of Trump on trade would differ from the first
...And retaliation seems inevitable, particularly now the European Commission has new powers to hit back outside of the World Trade Organization’s hobbled system of solving disputes....
February 23, 2024
News in-depthAustralia
Australian strikes hit 8-year high as unions make up for ‘lost time’
...The Labor party’s historically close ties with the union — the party was set up by trade unions and many affiliate directly with the party — has left it with little room to manoeuvre, some claim....
February 7, 2024
Trade Secrets
The case for the WTO. (No, really.) Premium content
...This may be an improbable thought for my regular readers, but people sometimes tell me I’ve got a downer on the World Trade Organization. A WTO grouch, they call me....
February 26, 2024
Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
The political lessons from Australia’s defiance of China
...For its part, Australia dropped a World Trade Organization case against Beijing over the wine tariffs. Both sides portrayed the outcome as a mutually beneficial de-escalation of tensions....
April 4, 2024
UK local government finance
English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets
...Local authorities are preparing to sell off hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of land and buildings as a long-term funding squeeze shows no sign of being alleviated by the chancellor’s Budget on March...
February 28, 2024
Rana Foroohar
The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul
...As the World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial meeting starts on Monday, I suspect the conversation around trade will continue to be small and technocratic....
February 25, 2024
John Clarke
The art of the deal? Ten steps to a successful trade negotiation
...The writer was one of the EU’s top trade negotiators and a former head of the EU delegation to the World Trade Organization and UN As well as bringing significant elections around the world, 2024 will be...
March 6, 2024
Letter
Letter: A false dichotomy: trade unions versus productivity
...As one Danish trade union leader noted in 2007: “Security is no longer to hold on desperately to the same job throughout your life....
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
Britain after Brexit
New import charges crystallise cost of Brexit Premium content
...The reaction of a broad swath of trade lobby groups was unanimous: unvarnished anger....
April 4, 2024
Electric vehicles
Chinese-made EVs set to take 25% of European market this year
...A quarter of electric vehicles sold in the EU this year will be made in China, as the country’s new entrants continue to take sales from local rivals, according to analysis from policy group Transport &...
March 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: Financial literacy is key to fighting the ‘finfluencers’
...John HunterCo-Head of Financial Learning,UK Shareholders Association, Orpington, Kent, UK...
April 15, 2024
UK government spending
Only 10% of UK levelling up funds spent, say MPs
...Three quarters of more than 800 council applications to the first round of the Levelling Up Fund were rejected, with each bid costing an average of £30,000, according to the Local Government Association,...
March 15, 2024
Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
The US can lead on trade despite storms of criticism over Gaza
...Washington’s weakness in trade diplomacy — also reflected in the World Trade Organization, where it is single-handedly preventing the institution’s dispute settlement system from working properly — is a...
February 8, 2024
Letter
Letter: A defence of actively managed mutual funds
...In a 2019 paper titled “Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Active Management: A Review of the Past 20 Years of Academic Literature on Actively Managed Mutual Funds”, Martijn Cremers, Jon A Fulkerson...
March 22, 2024
Special ReportFT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies
‘Resilience’ of Belgian economy supports local start-ups
...Anthony de Bruyn, marketing director, says it has won public sector contracts and local angel investors include the city of Antwerp and the Flemish government....
March 25, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
Swamp Notes: The play for union power
...Union workers used to be a reliable pillar of the Democratic party’s voting coalition. Then Donald Trump arrived on the scene....
March 16, 2024
Valdis Dombrovskis
Reform the WTO to make it fit for the 21st century
...The writer is EU commissioner for trade Global trade has been a key driver of prosperity and poverty reduction over the past few decades and the World Trade Organization has been at the heart of this....
February 22, 2024
Letter
Letter: WTO and steel sector align carbon counting
...At the behest of the industry, we took the steel sector as a starting point in tackling the trade conundrum of counting carbon....
February 16, 2024

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