The Ritchie 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

ReviewTelevision

The Gentlemen TV review — Netflix’s Guy Ritchie spin-off offers light lads-and-dads entertainment

...Guy Ritchie’s 2019 crime caper The Gentlemen ended with a winkingly meta — and pretty shameless — pitch for a sequel....

March 6, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Get your thesaurus at the ready: the Guy Ritchie gangster is back

...inquires the chief baddie in one of those early Guy Ritchie films before we all got the joke and moved on....

March 22, 2024

FT Live

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Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

Liz Ritchie

Scots must now navigate an income tax labyrinth

...the border....

April 11, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Busting myths and calls to action — a round-up of environment books

...Ritchie also shows progress has been made on the thornier problem of climate change....

February 12, 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

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

ReviewBusiness books

Business books: what to read this month

...Amanda Chu ‘Not the End of the World’ by Hannah Ritchie How many harvests does the world have left?...

January 30, 2024

ReviewFilm

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant is a sturdy war movie — review

...With Ritchie, even small mercies are welcome. The film is set in the last phase of the US occupation of Afghanistan....

June 1, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The planet’s got 99 problems, but exponential growth isn’t one

...But as Hannah Ritchie notes in her thoughtful new book Not the End of the World, per capita coal emissions in the UK peaked more than 100 years ago....

January 12, 2024

ReviewTelevision

Sexy Beast — unconvincing prequel to Jonathan Glazer’s audacious debut

...For a show about a group of thugs, none of it really packs a punch. ★★☆☆☆ First three episodes on Paramount+ from January 25....

January 26, 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

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

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

Gambling industry

Cut gambling adverts at UK sports games, MPs urge

...Gambling groups pay the Premier League around £65mn a year, according to government figures....

December 21, 2023

Kering SA

Gucci-owner Kering expects first-half profit to shrink by up to 45%

...While the global luxury market has been slowing for the past year after a multiyear pandemic boom, other groups have fared better in the transition....

April 23, 2024

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 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

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

Investments

Directors’ Deals: Mike Ashley explores his options

...The group’s management team looks undeterred, however....

September 29, 2023

LexING Groep NV

ING shows the way to win in European banking Premium

...Bringing the two in line could release €44bn of capital to recycle elsewhere in the group. Even partial success should lift ING’s share price, already at five-year highs....

April 4, 2024

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