MATTHEW T. MORRIS

Cambridge-led coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil fuel financing

...“The treasurers in this group all share a common goal, which is to manage money in a way that doesn’t contribute to the financing of fossil fuel expansion and to find something that aligns with the IEA Net...

February 15, 2024

Liberty Media Corp

Formula One owner closes in on €4bn deal for MotoGP

...“I’d be very surprised if competition regulators didn’t look at it,” he said. “The question is, has the market changed?”...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Strategies for Trading Interest Rate Volatility

Understanding the rate environment and capitalising on fluctuations

UBS Group AG

Activist Cevian places €1.2bn bet on UBS

...“The notion that large companies can’t be changed is not right. There are many levers you can pull . . . we believe that UBS can become significantly more profitable over time.”...

December 19, 2023

UK tax

Inheritance tax shock for thousands of wealthy families

...“Leave it until your 80s, and the risk becomes far greater that you won’t survive the full seven years.” Morris also highlighted the large amount of tax some failed gifts had attracted....

March 14, 2024

Financial & markets regulation

Global bank executives hit out at US capital plans

...I don’t think what has happened [at Credit Suisse was] about [needing] more capital,” he added....

November 30, 2023

Tesla Inc

Tesla shareholders braced for worst results in 7 years

...“Plans for Model 2 will likely get most attention but don’t expect a satisfying answer,” Levy said. The company’s quarterly results are also expected to be underwhelming....

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Transcript

Transcript: Discover what’s in Capital One’s wallet

...Marc FilippinoStephen Morris is the FT’s banking editor. Thanks, Stephen. Stephen MorrisThank you very much....

February 21, 2024

News in-depthTesla Inc

Tesla’s ‘gravity-defying’ powers at risk as EV market slows

...“I honestly don’t know what levers he pulls. There is no new product, and he won’t take further price action.”...

April 5, 2024

InterviewLunch with the FT

Actor Michael Douglas: ‘What roles haven’t I done?’

...“I can’t face East Coast winters any more.” What about Welsh winters? “Well, it’s rain, isn’t it?”...

April 12, 2024

ReviewDance

Edward Scissorhands dance review — Matthew Bourne’s gothic-lite version lacks gloom

...Matthew Bourne’s popular 2005 dance version of Edward Scissorhands, installed at Sadler’s Wells for seven weeks as part of an 18-venue UK tour, gets off to a stirring start....

December 15, 2023

Jacob Rothschild

Jacob Rothschild, British financier, dies aged 87

...He told the newspaper: “I don’t, you know, usually give interviews. So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...

February 26, 2024

Barclays PLC

Barclays chief under pressure to win over sceptics with strategy update

...“We don’t expect revolutionary changes to strategy, but believe Barclays’ evolution under Venkat can reset the medium-term investment case positively.”...

February 17, 2024

UK Budget 2024

‘British Isa’ aims to boost ailing equities

...“At the moment, outflows of funds from UK equities are depressing valuations and mean there aren’t available funds for [initial public offerings],” he added. “These new measures are no panacea.”...

March 6, 2024

Standard Chartered PLC

StanChart chief laments ‘crap’ stock price as profits jump

...“I don’t think there is a Trump overhang [on our shares]. There is a US-China overhang,” Winters said....

February 23, 2024

ReviewAlbums

The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy — ornate debut lands amid hype and controversy

...“And what I’m feeling isn’t lust, it’s envy,” Morris sings in “Beautiful Boy”, a gripping slow-burner about male entitlement. Her accent is cut-glass....

February 1, 2024

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

ReviewNon-Fiction

Smart Money — Alex Duff on the changing fortunes of Brentford Football Club

...They looked beyond results, which were skewed by chance — a ball that rolled in off the post, or didn’t....

March 22, 2024

Goldman Sachs Group

Unrest at Goldman challenges Solomon’s fragile peace

...“It’s a lot of promises to too many people and they can’t follow through on everything,” said one former Goldman investment banker....

February 23, 2024

UK Budget 2024

Rich non-doms ‘dismayed’ by Hunt’s decision to end tax breaks

...McDowell, the property consultant, said: “There’s an enduring love for London . . . but we must be careful we don’t push people off the edge.” Additional reporting by Costas Mourselas...

March 8, 2024

European banks

Rate rises hand European banks a €100bn windfall

...“I don’t think [over] the next decade the gap will be as large. I think there’s opportunities for the Europeans”, he said....

December 29, 2023

Letter

Letter: Casting doubt on artefacts doesn’t need AI forgeries

...Matthew HuntBangkok, Thailand...

February 2, 2024

InterviewFilm

Filmmaker Errol Morris on interviewing le Carré and Rumsfeld — but why he won’t touch Trump

...When Errol Morris was a private detective, he didn’t always introduce himself as such....

October 18, 2023

News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions

Bob Diamond and Rich Ricci are banking on a City revival

...“Maybe we don’t deserve to exist, but if we don’t that means there is no mid-cap public market, and that is terrible for the UK.”...

January 17, 2024

ReviewBiography and memoir

Georgi Gospodinov review — an anatomy of melancholy

...“I continue — don’t laugh at me! — to be afraid to fall asleep,” he writes in the book’s final line....

February 8, 2024

ReviewFiction

Vladivostok Circus — of human distance and balancing acts

...It’s as if she’s pressed right up to the glass but can’t seem to break through....

January 26, 2024

Banks

UBS chair aims for ‘bloodless coup’ with Ermotti succession

...“The easy losses are getting rid of headcount, the sticky ones are allocated in control functions, data, IT,” Kelleher added. “2024 is the first year we don’t have the cover of the ‘easy’ costs.”...

November 28, 2023

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