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Fund management
Martin Gilbert faces investor revolt over governance concerns
...Glass Lewis has also urged investors to vote against Gilbert because of the board’s lack of gender diversity, noting that AssetCo is “one of the few remaining UK public companies with an all-male board”....
April 17, 2024
Greensill Capital
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
...The findings of the probe are not yet public. Lex Greensill faces the possibility of being disqualified as a company director for up to 15 years....
March 5, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The myth of victimless tax rises
...Debates on the details of the UK tax system are welcome, but the tweaks both parties have been jostling over are piddling compared to the scale of the public finance challenges facing the future government...
April 17, 2024
Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel
...Now, a public inquiry into the scandal is gaining momentum as it takes evidence from senior Post Office executives, government ministers and figures from Fujitsu, ahead of its conclusion this summer....
April 23, 2024
Working It
Secrets of perfect panel moderation
...Office Therapy The problem: My line manager is refusing to let me take part in a company-wide volunteer programme with local community groups....
April 17, 2024
Nuclear energy
UK nuclear watchdog takes Sellafield operator to court over alleged IT breaches
...The review by the National Audit Office is continuing....
March 28, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The surprising public health benefit of unemployment
...They examine the impact of the great recession of 2007-09 on death rates in different parts of the US, some of which suffered sharper increases in unemployment than others....
March 8, 2024
Working from home
The banks on the frontline of the remote working battle
...At the other end of the scale, staff at the UK’s NatWest are expected to work in the office just twice a month, with 95 per cent adopting a hybrid approach and staff coming into the office on average once...
March 4, 2024
Correction
Correction: Office for Budget Responsibility
...The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that freezing fuel duty in the long run would cost the Treasury £6.3bn by the end of the decade, not more than £8bn as wrongly state in an article on...
March 19, 2024
Camilla Cavendish
The UK has an accountability problem — just look at the Post Office
...But we have seen the same pattern in other tragedies where public or quasi-public bodies either fail to join the dots or actively conspire in cover-ups....
January 13, 2024
Kalin Anev Janse
Celebrate that European safe assets have joined the €1tn club
...As this June’s elections loom, the question of how to finance European public goods is becoming unavoidable. In the past, we have seen that a joint response has yielded positive results....
March 25, 2024
Letter
Letter: Don’t keep voters in the dark over Big Tech’s role
...Peter CalowProfessor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, US...
April 15, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Office politics — how to play the game
...And actually, some of the rituals I’m thinking of our own office — you know, the tea run....
February 27, 2024
John Thornhill
The bitter technological lesson of the Post Office scandal
...It has rightly triggered public fury and forced the government into fresh action. To date, only 93 of the more than 700 people convicted in the affair have seen their convictions overturned....
January 11, 2024
Post Office Ltd
Post Office chief executive ‘exonerated’ of misconduct after review
...The investigation became public in February after Henry Staunton, chair of the Post Office between 2022 and 2024, told MPs that Read was the focus of a HR complaint that included allegations that the chief...
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Working It
New workers’ rights incoming
...Now we have to be in the office on certain days. Our manager is aware but has their own office so they don’t get the full “effect”....
March 25, 2024
Stephen Bush
Why won’t the Tories talk about their success in education?
...Their political position wouldn’t be transformed if they talked more about the public policy success of their time in office, but at the margin it would surely be less self-destructive than their preferred...
March 6, 2024
Post Office scandal
Post Office scandal victims call for the ‘truth’ as next phase of inquiry begins
...The next phase of the UK Post Office Horizon public inquiry will resume this week, marking the penultimate chapter of an independent probe into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice....
April 8, 2024
FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade
The surprising resilience of the Russian economy
...Putin’s own top economic officials have warned a surge in public spending comes at the risk of a major overheating of the economy in the near future....
February 2, 2024
UK immigration
Sunak’s Rwanda asylum scheme could cost UK £580mn, watchdog warns
...The report by the National Audit Office was commissioned after two powerful committees of MPs — public accounts and home affairs — demanded greater clarity about the full costs of the Rwanda policy, which...
March 1, 2024
Jo Ellison
Amy Winehouse and the bankruptcy of the biopic
...This week, we have also seen the spectre of George Michael rising from the dead: the singer, who died in 2016, will resume “live public performances” next year, according to records filed at Companies House...
January 19, 2024
News in-depthPost Office scandal
Former judiciary chief warns on Post Office mass exoneration
...of disclosure and could lead to the Post Office opposing hundreds of appeals....
April 5, 2024
Post Office scandal
UK Post Office sought to double chief executive’s pay package
...Staunton was sacked from his post last month amid increased scrutiny of the business’s governance, after a flurry of public interest in the Horizon scandal and the treatment of its victims....
February 28, 2024
News updates from April 9: OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models; EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbine companies
Public inquiry will push ahead despite late disclosure of documents by Post Office
...Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the public inquiry, said witnesses would be recalled if required after it emerged that tens of thousands of documents had been disclosed late by the Post Office in recent months...
April 9, 2024
News updates from April 17: UK inflation falls less than expected; Boeing engineer says safety concerns are ignored
Post Office chief cleared of misconduct after review
...Post Office chief executive officer Nick Read has been “exonerated of all the misconduct allegations” against him following an external investigation, according to the company, after a public spat with the...
April 17, 2024

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