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UBS reports first quarterly profit since Credit Suisse takeover

...Chief financial officer Todd Tuckner told analysts on Tuesday that the bank had eliminated 2,000 jobs in the first quarter, meaning the combined bank’s headcount had shrunk by 19,000 since the takeover....

May 7, 2024

Lex PopuliInvestments

Dodgy data: what not to trust

...Poor data undermines trust and skews forecasting — as several central banks, including the Bank of England, discovered when it came to inflation....

April 25, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Moira O'Neill

Investment trusts troubles present an opportunity

...trust companies.”...

May 11, 2024

Reddit Inc

Reddit beats expectations in first results as a public company

...However Jen Wong, Reddit’s chief operating officer, cautioned on the call that the company had less “visibility” into how the second half of the year would pan out, noting that the US election in November...

May 7, 2024

The Week Ahead

Opening arguments begin in Trump trial

...monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....

April 21, 2024

Alphabet Inc

Alphabet surges past $2tn valuation as search giant announces first dividend

...The first-quarter dividend of 20 cents a share is worth almost $2.5bn....

April 26, 2024

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Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Should I open a bank account with my partner?

...The assets held in overseas trusts will not pass under your aunt’s will so you would need to consider the trust documents or contact the trustees to establish who are the beneficiaries of any trust assets...

March 13, 2024

US financial regulation

Probe finds misogynistic ‘boys club’ culture at US bank regulator

...The report said that given the duration of Gruenberg’s time at the top, as well as allegations about his temper, “may hinder his ability to establish trust and confidence in leading meaningful culture change...

May 7, 2024

Elliott Management Corp

Elliott builds stake in Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust

...investors’ appetite for the high-growth companies the trust made its name backing....

March 22, 2024

Walt Disney Co

Disney shares fall 9.5% despite first profit in core streaming business

...The company also raised its adjusted earnings target for the full year....

May 7, 2024

The best books of the week

The First Cold War — when Russia and Britain were at odds

...Arthur Conolly, an East India Company officer and explorer, is generally credited with inventing the term “the Great Game”....

May 9, 2024

US banks

Loan growth stalls at largest US banks

...The largest US banks lent billions of dollars less in the first quarter, in a sign that corporate borrowers are paying down debt as interest rates hover at historically high levels....

April 16, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...American studies of public attitudes to science began in 1957, when the Russians launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite....

March 27, 2024

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC

Scottish Mortgage launches £1bn buyback to prop up share price

...Since then, it has suffered from a sell-off in growth companies prompted by aggressive interest rate rises from central banks to fight inflation....

March 15, 2024

Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank tie-in gives More Telecom a boost

...French telecoms company Orange shocked the market in 2016 when it bought a majority stake in a bank, to muscle in on Europe’s financial sector....

April 3, 2024

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The Impact Of Gen AI On The Legal Sector

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Letter

Letter: Harvest the low-hanging fruit to ease housing crisis

...Carroll Reeve Lavenham Community Land Trust, Lavenham, Suffolk, UK...

April 12, 2024

Artificial intelligence

TikTok to automatically label AI-generated user content in global first

...Tech companies argue their efforts represented the first step towards tackling the problem....

May 9, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

What should the Bank of Japan do with its huge stock portfolio?

...The writer is an FT contributing editor The Bank of Japan has, over 14 years, acquired exchange traded funds containing stocks equivalent to about 7 per cent of listed Japanese companies....

May 7, 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

Blockbuster M&A deals more than double in first quarter

...Blockbuster deals more than doubled in the first quarter of this year, signalling a nascent recovery in the mergers and acquisitions market following a lengthy drought....

March 28, 2024

Private investing

Investment trust purchases down 28% in 2023

...Purchases totalled £948mn last year, down 28 per cent from 2022’s record high of £1.3bn, according to data from the Association of Investment Companies, a trust industry body....

February 23, 2024

Deutsche Bank AG

Trading helps lift Deutsche Bank to highest quarterly profit in 11 years

...Trading and investment banking helped lift Deutsche Bank to its highest quarterly profits in 11 years in the first three months of 2024, as global dealmaking started to pick up after a two-year long slump...

April 25, 2024

Scottish economy

Scotland’s new deputy first minister vows to cut burdens on business

...Kate Forbes, Scotland’s new deputy first minister, has pledged to reduce the burdens on business to help attract new investment after meeting with senior executives on her first day in the job....

May 9, 2024

Mortgages

UK mortgage demand returns to growth in first quarter

...The index, which tracks the proportion of lenders reporting an increase in demand for home loans versus those reporting a decrease, rose to 35.9 in the first quarter, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly...

April 11, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Rap beefs heat up on two albums from Future and Metro Boomin

...The spur for the cattiness is Lamar’s lively cameo on the first of the albums from Future and Metro Boomin. The song he appears on, “Like That”, is currently topping the US singles chart....

April 17, 2024

Anjli Raval

Beware the rise of the everything adviser

...There are more stakeholders to placate but there are fewer people you can trust to resolve problems....

March 25, 2024

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