The Evolution 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

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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

FT Asset Management

Paul Marshall’s evolution from financier to media baron

...Costs remain stubbornly high, the share price has fallen by a third and underperformed the FTSE 350 asset managers’ benchmark since Bird’s appointment, and the group has twice been ejected from the blue-chip...

March 11, 2024

News in-depthXiaomi Corp

The Steve Jobs of China turns car salesman in Xiaomi’s EV evolution

...The group’s rapid transition from EV wannabe to mass production has been aided by the rise of a mature supply chain in China for the electric car industry....

April 5, 2024

FT SeriesMilan design special 2024

Finns are furious about the makeover of their favourite homeware brand

...The new logo, they said, harks back to one of the first logotypes employed by the brand from the 1800s, long before the iconic little red “i”....

March 30, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

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

Schneider Electric SE

Schneider Electric weighs deal for software maker Bentley Systems

...“It is a surprise to us that Schneider is exploring an acquisition of this scale . . . given it appears to be at odds with the messaging of “evolution not revolution” since the CEO transition,” Berenberg...

April 19, 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

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(CFR) — This is the end (Reformed Broker) — Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT (GitHub) — The new quest to control evolution (Quanta) — Paris Hilton is in her domestic goddess era (Eater) — The...

November 30, 2023

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

Anjana Ahuja

The explosive evolutionary tactics of snakes

...”, or a relatively sudden, unexplained shift in the rate of snake evolution that began more than 100mn years ago and is still ongoing....

April 3, 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

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Letter

Letter: Snake steak

...Anjana Ahuja, in her interesting column on snakes’ evolution (Opinion, April 3), discusses in particular the python’s potential as low fat, high protein, efficiently produced food....

April 8, 2024

Shell PLC

Shell revises climate targets as it plans to keep gas business growing

...The group also dropped its 2035 target....

March 14, 2024

Six films to watch this week

Fantastic Machine film review — screen history from the Lumières to YouTube erotica and Isis bloopers

...Tracing the evolution of the moving image, Swedish-Danish documentary Fantastic Machine begins with those founding fathers of photographic motion, Eadweard Muybridge, Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers...

April 18, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(X) — Convergent evolution toward the joint-stock company (NBER) — Clauses & Controversies with Mitu Gulati & Mark Weidemaier (Apple Podcasts) — Why is the United Nations in such disarray?...

November 7, 2023

Currencies

The evolution of original sin

...One of the great (almost) untold positive global development stories of the past decade is the amelioration of “original sin”....

August 4, 2023

Moral Money

‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium

...Blended capital flows fell to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the most recent estimates by research group Convergence....

April 12, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

...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 27, 2024

Believe

Believe looks to take music group private less than 3 years since IPO

...However the strength of its operational performance has not been reflected in the share price evolution,” said Ladegaillerie in a statement....

February 12, 2024

FT Magazine

The Opus Dei diaries

...It was started in 2020 by former members and recently expanded to the English-speaking world through a Reddit group, called Opus Dei Exposed. The group has hundreds of members....

March 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2bn and sets sights on AI start-ups

...capital firm in years.The Silicon Valley-based group, led by veteran tech investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, announced on Tuesday that it has raised the money to be split across a number of new...

April 16, 2024

Search Results

Viewing results 1‒25 of 400423

Viewing results 1‒25 of 400423

Related links