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Thames Water
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
Singapore
Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability
...investigation, the largest in the city-state’s history....
April 21, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Chinese society
Netflix adaptation of sci-fi novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’ sparks anger in China
...Politically, the Chinese party-state has “never been comfortable with unfettered access to western cultural products”, said Josh Stenberg, associate professor of Chinese studies at the University of Sydney...
March 29, 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 23, 2024
Thames Water
Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation
...cent of their money....
April 18, 2024
Chinese society
China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’
...The curse of 35 is a source of major anxiety for tech workers....
April 23, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Russian court orders seizure of $440mn from JPMorgan
...Last summer, a Russian court froze about $36mn worth of assets owned by Goldman following a lawsuit by state-owned bank Otkritie....
April 24, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel
...state over the weekend....
April 18, 2024
Post Office Ltd
Ex-Post Office chair accused of using ‘offensive’ term about job candidate
...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....
April 18, 2024
US Election Countdown
Opening salvos in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial
...And today, the president will visit Trump’s adopted home state of Florida, one week before its new six-week abortion ban goes into effect....
April 23, 2024
Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes
...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....
April 23, 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
FT readers respond
FT readers respond: UK ‘pothole crisis’
...For others, Britain’s pockmarked roads symbolise a broader problem — a chronic mismanagement of public funds....
April 24, 2024
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
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 Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
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
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
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
Investing in funds
State Street’s SSGA warns investors on additional costs of T+1
...However, the board of the State Street Global Advisors Luxembourg Sicav, an open-ended investment fund structure, told investors earlier this month that it will not reduce the settlement cycle of its funds...
April 17, 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
Letter
Letter: Collapsing Sumerians or standing-firm Pharaohs
...Niccolo Caldararo Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, CA, US...
April 12, 2024
UK Government
Former UK prime ministers call for reform of ‘centre’ of government
...The report from the Institute for Government think-tank said the machinery of state around the prime minister was “weak” and “not capable” of fulfilling its role and holding Whitehall accountable for delivery...
March 10, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state
...He must end the rampant theft of oil in which state officials are implicated....
March 12, 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
Travelista
Six cool California hotels to book now
...state’s most beloved beach towns....
February 25, 2024

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