The Bank of Versailles

ReviewFilm

Jeanne du Barry film review — Maïwenn stars and Johnny Depp murmurs in vague Versailles drama

...Still, as befits a tale of social climbing, the movie is notably quick to get to Versailles. (It is otherwise not in a hurry at all.)...

April 18, 2024

FT Magazine

Maïwenn on the nuances of playing Jeanne du Barry to Johnny Depp’s Louis XV

...While shooting Jeanne du Barry, much of which took place at the Palace of Versailles, Maïwenn occasionally found herself struggling with Depp’s constant suggestions about how each scene should be played....

April 6, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

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UK economy

Are the Bank of England’s external rate-setters pointless?

...Well, the Bank of England did exactly what everyone roughly expected it to do....

May 9, 2024

News updates from April 2: Biden speaks with Xi, Fed’s Mester raises long-term rate outlook

What to watch in Europe today

...US secretary of state Antony Blinken meets French foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné in Paris and armed forces minister Sébastien Lecornu in Versailles....

April 2, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

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

...It is enough to defray the cost of policy normalisation of its monetary policy, offsetting the cost of interest on reserves held at the bank on a policy rate up to at least 0.25 per cent....

May 7, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

The murky moves behind the yen

...Apple’s revenue fell 4 per cent in the first three months of 2024, Japan apparently intervened several times this week to support the yen, and US regulators have accused the former boss of the largest US...

May 3, 2024

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Markets

How divided is the Bank of England’s policy committee?

...The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates steady at a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent on Thursday but traders will be on the lookout for signs of a possible cut next month....

May 5, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

It’s central bank week!

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 18, 2024

UK economy

Bracing for the Bank of England’s forecasting review

...Meanwhile, the Bank of England MPC consists of nine policy makers and a common staff....

April 5, 2024

HTSI

Look sharp in the season’s best pointy shoes

...After years of bulbous footwear dominating the catwalk, the pointy shoe is staging a comeback....

May 8, 2024

News in-depthBank of England

Ben Bernanke’s brutal verdict on the Bank of England

...Ben Bernanke was brutally honest about the failings of the Bank of England’s economic modelling when he published a long-awaited review of its forecasting processes on Friday....

April 12, 2024

Banks

The $1tn ‘hold-to-maturity’ sleight-of-accounting

...Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset declines, banks used accounting reclassification to diminish the impact of interest rate increases on book capital....

April 3, 2024

Global Economy

When will the Bank of Japan next raise interest rates?

...The Bank of Japan is likely to hold off from raising interest rates next week but investors expect the central bank to outline its response to rising inflationary pressures caused by the yen’s decline....

April 21, 2024

Letter

Letter: Why the sure-footed Swiss central bank has cut rates

...despite the strength of price pressures in the US....

April 30, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bank of Japan’s tricky path to normalisation

...But on Tuesday, after eight years in the negative, the Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda pulled it off in smooth style....

March 20, 2024

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Special ReportRisk Management: Financial Institutions

Crisis management: the last line of defence

...The most recent examples of risk management failures in financial institutions are the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse last year....

May 2, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...

March 20, 2024

Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen

Life as a chef in the West Bank right now

...Chef Fadi Kattan does something that usually isn’t done in the West Bank of Palestine: he cooks seasonal, locally sourced dishes for a dining experience meant to rival the world’s best restaurants....

May 6, 2024

Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins

Raiffeisen has been a rogue operator in Russia for too long

...They now trade at about 30 per cent of book value, towards the bottom of the bank’s European peer group....

May 13, 2024

News updates from March 4: US Supreme Court rules Trump can remain on Colorado ballot; aviation regulator finds compliance issues at Boeing

France becomes first nation in world to add abortion rights to constitution

...A large majority of France’s two parliamentary chambers took the historic vote on Monday at the palace of Versailles to add to the constitution a specific article that guarantees the “freedom . . . of women...

March 4, 2024

Bank of Japan

Will the Bank of Japan finally raise interest rates?

...Kate Duguid Will the Bank of England hint at interest rate cuts?...

March 17, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bernanke review is only a starting point

...Few central banks have emerged from the past three years of inflation fighting with the same credibility they had before. The Bank of England has had a particularly hard time....

April 12, 2024

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

The bank argument on the Basel III endgame is bunk

...In the wake of three of the largest bank failures in US history a year ago, the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are all pushing...

March 23, 2024

Travel

43 holidays to take in 2024

...The ride runs April 21-28, costing €7,000 per person; georgescottrides.com Opera at Versailles Built for Louis XV in the grounds of Versailles, the Opéra Royal is a jewel box of a theatre, where the programme...

December 30, 2023

Central banks

What happens when a central bank runs out of money?

...Macro types simply love to chat about the prospect of central banks running out of money....

April 8, 2024

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