The Bennett Group

Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide

...The investment by the Messina Group, founded in 2013 by former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, values Mandelson’s firm Global Counsel at about £30mn, said people close to the transaction....

April 17, 2024

Goldman Sachs Group

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

...Dirk Lievens, who is head of Goldman’s financial institutions group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, moved to Paris last month to be closer to the company’s continental European clients, including...

April 22, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthEnterprise software

The unstoppable rise of Fortnox: Swedish software group attracts short sellers

...At stake is the company’s market capitalisation which was $4.6bn on Tuesday, a 23 times multiple of forecast sales that has made it one of the world’s most highly valued software groups, more expensive on...

March 27, 2024

Bain Capital

Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner

...Since 2016, Lavine and Connaughton, 58, have been co-managing partners of the group, overseeing its day-to-day operations....

March 27, 2024

Letter

Letter: Groups that stay in Russia risk complicity in Putin’s war crimes

...Bennett Freeman Co-founder, B4Ukraine and Former Senior Vice President, Calvert Investments Washington, DC, US...

February 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: Let’s raise tax for all high earners, not just those with children

...The high-income child benefit charge should be abolished in the forthcoming Budget. Fran Bennett Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK...

February 29, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

Rare earths

The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy

...That would also solve another strategic problem for the US, Bennett said....

April 21, 2024

Visual Arts

Urban Aboriginal art takes centre stage at the 2024 Sydney Biennale

...The prize “relit the fire for us”, as Albert puts it: they have grown the group and been instrumental in getting the Indonesian artist-activist group Taring Padi to show their work at Griffith University...

April 22, 2024

Letter

Letter: It’s our growth-dependent economies that got us here

...If you knock down a wall with a sledge hammer, that is not the tool you use to rebuild it. Natalie Bennett House of Lords, London SW1, UK...

January 19, 2024

HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more

How to strut it à la Saltburn

...When Butler later won a Bafta, Bennett was the first person he thanked. We kept in touch....

February 20, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(Home Economics) — It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at Floyd Bennett Field (Curbed) — The last family-run political machine in America (Economist) — Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’...

December 22, 2023

HTSI

HTSI editor’s letter: the art of sound

...Dance is another theme throughout the issue – we meet the painters who are trying to capture the kinetic energy of movement on the canvas, as well as the choreographers Polly Bennett and Léo Walk....

February 24, 2024

Frieze LA 2024

Los Angeles’ artist-run spaces offer bold ideas and mutual help in a precarious market

...timeshare.group...

February 24, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Big is still beautiful Premium

...Still, if you want proof that the bleating about London has gone too far, take a look at Wood Group....

April 17, 2024

Oil & Gas industry

World’s most indebted oil group hits out at critics

...The company’s pool of investors for the bonds has dwindled, and much of the group’s longer dated paper remains firmly in distressed territory, below a widely recognised threshold of 70 cents on the dollar...

April 18, 2024

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HTSI

24 ways to live like a Frenchman

...doverstreetmarket.com Japanese stainless-steel coffee drip kettle, £95, japanhouselondon.uk APC leather Josh coin purse, €225 Vintage leather and chrome tubular chair, c1960, €1,195, vntg.com EB Meyrowitz The...

March 20, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Trump’s candidate won big in Ohio and Democrats are celebrating

...“It is hard to say it is not a good idea given the track record,” added Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, the centrist Democratic think-tank....

March 23, 2024

Management consulting

Former Tory leader William Hague joins corporate intelligence group Hakluyt

...and private equity groups....

April 18, 2024

Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

Women continue to lead the way in the ETF industry

...But the frankest account of why a women’s membership group was needed in the ETF industry — and why it helps to have men in the room — comes from Ross, an industry veteran who was behind the SPDR launch....

March 25, 2024

Embracer Group

Debt-strapped European games group Embracer plans 3-way split

...Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends, which holds film and gaming rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books as well as the Tomb Raider franchise, will remain part of the existing Embracer group....

April 22, 2024

Drug prices

Rare genetic disease therapy becomes world’s most expensive drug at $4.25mn

...Orchard, a UK-based biotech that was recently bought by Japanese pharmaceutical group Kyowa Kirin, argued that the lack of other treatments for MLD justified the price....

March 20, 2024

LexASML Holding NV

ASML’s poor quarter is not a good reason to fret about its future Premium

...This makes for uncomfortable reading, especially given the group’s strong share price run. Indeed, its stock fell about 6 per cent on Wednesday....

April 17, 2024

Iran

Iran executes four people on charges of spying for Israel

...Iran is a longtime supporter of Hamas in Gaza, and backs militant groups across the region that have launched attacks against Israel and US forces in the region since the Palestinian group launched its October...

December 29, 2023

Mondelez International Inc

Mondelez chief says investors do not ‘morally care’ if groups stay in Russia

...Additional reporting by Brooke Masters in New York Letters in response to this article: Groups that stay in Russia risk complicity in Putin’s war crimes / From Bennett Freeman, Co-founder, B4Ukraine...

February 22, 2024

Roche Holding AG

Roche cuts drug pipeline in effort to revitalise business

...Western pharma groups are seeking to diversify production for the US market away from Chinese contract manufacturers, in response to draft US legislation that would prevent some Chinese companies from receiving...

April 24, 2024

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