People of State of Illinois

Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company

...Two Chinese state-owned banks hold a crucial role in the future of Thames Water, as part of a group of lenders involved in a stand-off over debt at the parent company of Britain’s largest water utility....

April 4, 2024

Pensions industry

Members of Debenhams pension plan to have their benefits restored

...Thousands of members of the pension plan of collapsed retailer Debenhams are to have their retirement benefits restored under a groundbreaking deal for the UK’s nascent “superfund” market....

March 14, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

OutlookPatti Waldmeir

Cicada-geddon: a rare insect event draws fans to the Midwest

...Illinois....

April 15, 2024

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

News updates from the Iowa caucuses: Trump called as winner of state race, DeSantis edges out Haley to finish second

‘No difference’ between Trump and his rivals, says Illinois governor

...Biden was “ready for any one of them”, he added....

January 15, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...The Financial Times’ UK poll tracker combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters ahead of the general election expected this year....

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

UK local elections

UK ‘pothole crisis’ threatens Conservative party ahead of local elections

...For a party that is “proudly pro-car”, in the words of transport secretary Mark Harper, the state of Britain’s roads is a serious problem, reflecting on years of constraints on the local councils charged...

April 16, 2024

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...Judy Niner, founder of Monday to Friday, which matches people with spare rooms to part-time renters says “people coming back to the office are tending to stay for fewer nights — three or even just two nights...

March 31, 2024

ReviewFiction

Caledonian Road — Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-Britain novel

...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....

March 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: Collapsing Sumerians or standing-firm Pharaohs

...Niccolo Caldararo Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, CA, US...

April 12, 2024

Post Office scandal

Evidence of fraud ‘quite compelling’, says Post Office’s ex-managing director

...Alan Cook, who led the state-owned group between 2006 and 2010, on Friday said criminal cases it brought had featured robust evidence but that he was not aware it was leading on prosecutions....

April 12, 2024

Retail & Consumer industry

Reckitt shares plunge after $60mn damages over baby formula

...The jury in an Illinois state court came to the conclusion that one of its formulas for premature babies, Enfamil Premature 24, which is manufactured by Reckitt’s US infant formula business Mead Johnson,...

March 15, 2024

Letter

Letter: Chicago’s skyscrapers are actually well-grounded

...Jean BognerResearch Professor EmeritaDepartment of Earth & Environmental SciencesUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, US Letter in response to this letter: Liverpool’s links with...

February 26, 2024

MTN Group Ltd

South Africa’s MTN to boost investment in generators to combat blackouts

...MTN joins a growing list of companies plugging shortfalls from the state electricity provider Eskom....

April 10, 2024

Letter

Letter: Exhibit A: Appalling state of Russia’s court system

...The scenes at the Russian court (“Four suspects appear in court as Russia mourns concert attack dead”, Report, FT.com March 24) show the appalling state of justice there: beaten and humiliated defendants...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

UK Government

Former UK prime ministers call for reform of ‘centre’ of government

...Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray was among the scores of officials and academics who gave evidence to the IfG commission, according to people familiar with the matter....

March 10, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...There is no shortage of theories: recessions take people from low-quality, high-stress jobs; by freeing up labour, recessions might improve the quality of care in nursing homes; people who lose their jobs...

March 8, 2024

Haiti

Haiti declares state of emergency after mass jailbreak

...Haiti’s government has imposed a 72-hour state of emergency and night curfew after gangs that control swaths of the capital Port-au-Prince over-ran two prisons and freed thousands of inmates....

March 4, 2024

Chinese business & finance

Chinese state-owned bank seeks liquidation of property developer Shimao

...The involvement of a prominent state-owned bank signals a new level of impatience among creditors as a cash crunch for property developers continues to worsen....

April 8, 2024

News in-depthUS society

Illinois to become first US state to abolish cash bail

...That will change on Monday in Illinois, when the state becomes the first in the US to entirely eliminate the use of cash bail....

September 17, 2023

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

US presidential election 2024

‘Trump did this’: abortion ruling hands Biden opening in Arizona

...Lake, who in 2022 described the territorial statute as a “great law”, has also reversed her position, saying on Thursday that the court’s ruling was “out of line with where the people of this state are”....

April 16, 2024

UK housebuilding

State housing schemes in England have ‘materially underdelivered’ since 2020

...State housebuilding schemes in England have “very materially underdelivered” since 2020, according to a review of the government’s housing and regeneration agency, which criticised Whitehall for worsening...

April 8, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Highlights from Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech

...“There are state laws banning the right to choose, criminalising doctors and forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states as well to get the care they need,” Biden said....

March 8, 2024

Turkey-Syria earthquake

Container cities: Turkey’s quake zone one year on

...The quakes killed about 53,000 people in Turkey and drove 6mn people into temporary shelter or to other regions, the interior ministry said....

February 5, 2024

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