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Jeremy Hunt bets on creating a $1tn ‘British Microsoft’

...The UK’s leading tech company, chip designer Arm, was bought by Japan’s SoftBank in 2016 in a deal welcomed by the prime minister at the time Theresa May....

May 13, 2024

Property sector

Kazakh oligarch Timur Kulibayev sells Mayfair mansion for £35mn

...Forty-one Upper Grosvenor Street has been empty for a large part of that, drawing the ire of homelessness campaigners lamenting largely absentee foreign owners hidden behind offshore companies....

May 9, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Executive Pay

More FTSE 100 groups asking investors to back executive pay rises, says Deloitte

...But the company suffered a revolt as almost 36 per cent of shareholders voted against the plans to boost his maximum payout for 2024 to £18.7mn....

April 15, 2024

Schroders PLC

Schroders launches search for successor to chief executive Harrison

...Each of the company’s non-voting shares — a quarter of the total in issue — were converted into an ordinary share carrying voting rights....

April 24, 2024

Royal Mail

Royal Mail owner rejects £4.5bn takeover bid from Czech billionaire Křetínský

...The dispute, which included 18 days of strikes, helped to erode the company’s share of the vital parcel delivery market....

April 17, 2024

Labour Party UK

Tickets for Labour conference ‘business day’ sold out in hours

...The party said some FTSE 100 companies that had not previously attended had registered for the event....

April 26, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Executive Pay

Smith & Nephew investors urged to oppose ‘excessive’ pay rise for boss

...The company employs 18,000 people in about 100 countries....

April 11, 2024

Flutter Entertainment PLC

Flutter ditches plan to hire Deloitte after move to US listing

...The company cancelled its secondary listing on Euronext Dublin in January in favour of admitting its shares to trading in New York, freeing the company from EU rotation requirements, as such rules do not...

April 7, 2024

P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries boss took six-figure bonus after sacking of UK-based crew

...UK ministers committed to “taking action against company leaders who break the law” after the shipping company laid off 800 sailors in 2022 without giving any notice or conducting the usual consultation....

May 7, 2024

News in-depthUK Budget 2024

SMEs eye Budget boost as they battle rising costs and labour shortages

...“We employ a consultancy to do our R&D claims for us because we haven’t got the time to fight the claims,” he said....

March 5, 2024

Letter

Letter: EU competitiveness needs single market to live up to its name

...Kieran O’Keeffe Executive Director, Europe Unlocked, Brussels, Belgium...

April 26, 2024

Moira O'Neill

Investment trusts troubles present an opportunity

...Moira O’Neill is a freelance money and investment writer. X: @MoiraONeill, Instagram @MoiraOnMoney, email: moira.o’neill@ft.com...

May 11, 2024

James Lewis

FCA bans Lars Windhorst’s longtime broker James Lewis

...The incident in which Lewis “risked misleading” a company’s auditor is one of two breaches flagged by the FCA....

May 7, 2024

News updates from May 8: US pauses weapons shipment to Israel, Uber’s earnings hit by legal costs

UK minister slams FCA ‘name and shame’ proposals

...His comments came after UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt last month warned the Financial Conduct Authority against its plan to name and shame companies under investigation....

May 8, 2024

UK financial regulation

FCA surprised by criticism over ‘name and shame’ proposal, says chair

...The boss of the UK’s financial regulator has admitted the watchdog is surprised by the strength of criticism directed at its proposal to more regularly “name and shame” companies that are under investigation...

May 8, 2024

FT Live

The Impact Of Gen AI On The Legal Sector

How are law firms leveraging technology to transform services and operations?

Letter

Letter: Recessions do not rest on the shoulders of one man

...Maria O’Donovan Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland...

February 21, 2024

News updates from May 8: US pauses weapons shipment to Israel, Uber’s earnings hit by legal costs

FCA board surprised by stern reaction to ‘name and shame’ proposal, admits chair

...The chair of the Financial Conduct Authority has admitted the regulator’s board was surprised by the strength of criticism directed at its proposal to more regularly “name and shame” companies that are under...

May 8, 2024

BHP Group Ltd

BHP told to hand over executives’ employment details in Brazil dam disaster litigation

...manager at the company....

April 18, 2024

Letter

Letter: China, Ireland and the state company economy

...The Irish state invested in state companies; for example in Érin Foods which was a food processing company under Lt General Michael J Costello. Micheál O’CathailDún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland...

May 6, 2024

Fund management

Woodford was German, just for one day

...Here are some of the other domains the company registered at the same time: … But anyway, what’s in a name?...

April 18, 2024

Companies House UK

‘Erroneous’ filings highlight flaws in Companies House data

...The paperwork was submitted without the knowledge of the companies or lenders affected, according to people with knowledge of the matter....

March 4, 2024

Management consulting

Former Tory leader William Hague joins corporate intelligence group Hakluyt

...Exchange, the company behind the New York Stock Exchange Companies pay Hakluyt to gather intelligence on corporate, regulatory and geopolitical issues to assist in their decision-making in areas such as...

April 18, 2024

HM Revenue & Customs

HMRC undermining innovation by failing to award R&D tax credits, say start-ups

...HMRC had previously sent Morey a rejection letter referring to R&D claims for projects that did not relate to the company, he added. “My perception is the whole thing is a mess . . ....

April 1, 2024

Moira O'Neill

Don’t let your pension run out of money

...Moira O’Neill is a freelance money and investment writer. X: @MoiraONeill, Instagram @MoiraOnMoney, email: moira.o’neill@ft.com...

April 19, 2024

Executive Pay

Ex-Smiths chief set for pay bump after quitting UK conglomerate for smaller US group

...The planned retention package was linked to a target of doubling the company’s share price over a number of years, the people said....

April 22, 2024

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