On Time Capital

China’s capital markets activity falls to multi-decade lows

...Activity on China’s equity capital markets on the mainland and beyond has slumped to multi-decade lows, highlighting how the loss of momentum in the world’s second-largest economy has weighed on investor...

April 14, 2024

Singapore

Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability

...after large inflows of people and capital from mainland China....

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Future of Business Education: Spotlight on Executive MBA

Enhancing your leadership skills

Goldman Sachs Group

Goldman Sachs moves senior banker to Paris in post-Brexit revamp

...Goldman’s European investment banking operations have been facing a sensitive time, having experienced tumult this year over appointments to a new senior internal committee....

April 22, 2024

Letter

Letter: Defusing UK housing time bomb needs non-trivial intervention

...Defusing the “time bomb” requires non-trivial interventions. May the travails of some water companies be a warning. George Lemos Capital Finance Strategies London EC1, UK...

April 10, 2024

FT Alphaville

Big Ben calls time on Compass

...Of the PhD staff who responded to our survey, and who work in areas that feed into the forecast, only 45% said they spent ‘substantial time’ or ‘moderate time’ each year on the forecast or related analysis...

April 23, 2024

Blackstone Group LP

Blackstone warns that private equity cannot return capital ‘overnight’

...Blackstone has said it will take time for private equity firms, which are sitting on record amounts of unsold assets, to return cash to investors even as the market for mergers and acquisitions comes back...

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Climate Capital Live

The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business

Cryptofinance

Miners double down on bitcoin halving

...Data mining: Crypto venture capital opening the year strong This year the crypto market has welcomed the approval of spot bitcoin exchange traded funds and a fresh all-time high for bitcoin....

April 19, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Time to stop dithering over the EU’s capital markets union

...But the eurogroup’s tentative commitments point in the right direction, accepting “convergence” on rules and calling for national measures to boost capital market investments such as ending the bias against...

March 13, 2024

Paris Olympics

Parisians struggle to cash in on Olympic Games rentals

...Many Parisians intend to flee the city during the games, which start on July 26, as an expected 15mn people visit the capital, according to tourism officials....

April 20, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

The hidden power of index providers

...A frenzy of activity saw almost a quarter of outstanding Tesla shares trade on the final day of the period, by which time its price had increased by 57 per cent....

April 9, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

How to make trains run on time

...For infrastructure as unwieldy and highly utilised as train lines, strategic co-ordination across the supply chain can get things built on time, cost effectively....

April 12, 2024

Commercial property

Office loans ‘living on borrowed time’

...For context, the average sales price for US offices has fallen by 33% since the 2019 peak on a per square foot basis, according to data collected from Real Capital Analytics (RCA)....

March 20, 2024

Europe Express

Why Slovakia’s presidential election is a vote on Robert Fico’s power Premium

...Context: The US capital market is nearly four times the size of the EU’s. That’s an issue as EU countries face strained budgets and huge investment needs, from defence to climate change....

April 5, 2024

Stephen Bush

It’s time to lift the veil on incompetence

...What this means in practice is that, over time, outcomes will be consistently biased against people who can’t devote the time and resources I did to rectifying mistakes....

April 16, 2024

News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies

Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital warns of pressure on revenue

...The group on Wednesday said that earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortisation dropped 25 per cent to £93.7mn after a 2 per cent fall in net revenue....

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Strategies for Trading Interest Rate Volatility

Understanding the rate environment and capitalising on fluctuations

ReviewNon-Fiction

Growth — it’s time for a reckoning

...Later, development economists at the World Bank sustained a “‘fetish’ for investment”, relying on models that saw physical capital — stuff that people could touch — as key for generating development....

April 10, 2024

InterviewConservative Party UK

Tories must stop ‘posturing’ if they are to win UK election, warns Andy Street

...“It’s about getting stuff done,” he told the Financial Times. “It’s not about philosophy and posturing, it’s about getting delivery on the ground.”...

April 22, 2024

Europe Express

How EU leaders fudged a compromise on integration of capital markets Premium

...“There was a time where one or the other profited from special regimes . . . to get a good piece of the cake,” Scholz said....

April 19, 2024

John Wood Group PLC

Activist investor calls on Wood Group to consider New York listing

...John Wood Group, the FTSE 250 engineering services company, should either move its listing to the US or consider a sale, activist investor Sparta Capital Management said on Tuesday....

April 16, 2024

Sovereign bonds

Why RECORD orders for debt sales are not what they seem

...Closer to the issue time, they then look to buy bonds from banks to cover their shorts....

February 7, 2024

xAI

Sequoia commits to backing Musk’s xAI start-up

...take on OpenAI, Meta and Google....

April 26, 2024

Letter

Letter: Time to double down on phasing out fossil fuels

...Several banks have announced curbs on various aspects of financing for oil and gas....

April 11, 2024

BlackRock Inc

BlackRock’s Larry Fink to face vote on splitting chair and CEO role

...Bluebell Capital Partners, which has $120mn in assets, has put a binding resolution on the company’s annual proxy ballot that would amend the corporate bylaws to require an independent board chair....

April 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2bn and sets sights on AI start-ups

...Andreessen Horowitz has raised $7.2bn to invest in tech start-ups including those at the forefront of the generative artificial intelligence revolution, in one of the biggest fundraising efforts by a venture capital...

April 16, 2024

Kim Ghattas

Israel’s ‘don’t reward them’ argument misses a moment of opportunity

...Now is the time for Biden to deploy that capital....

February 20, 2024

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