The Vertical 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

Entain PLC

Entain examines possible sale of overseas gambling brands

...At the group’s fourth-quarter results, Gibson said the committee had “commenced a review of Entain’s markets, brands and verticals” with an aim “to help focus the organisation, improve competitive positions...

March 14, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

Aerospace & Defence

Hydrogen-electric aircraft start-up secures UK Infrastructure Bank backing

...The Bristol-based group, founded by entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick and is developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, told shareholders in a third-quarter update that it remained...

November 27, 2023

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

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

Investments

Momo goes vertical

...Edward Cole is head of multi-strategy equities at Man Group. In physics, the more momentum an object has, the harder it is to stop....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

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

Boeing Co

Boeing in talks to acquire fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems

...It shipped Maxes with first improperly installed fittings on the vertical stabiliser, then four months later incorrectly drilled holes in the rear pressure bulkhead....

March 1, 2024

Aerospace & Defence

Chinese flying taxi sector claims global lead thanks to regulatory support

...aviation groups such as Boeing and Airbus....

April 22, 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

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

ReviewDance

Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

...She collapses after each tickling stroke, then rewinds to vertical — an unsettling sequence that gives a cartoonish sense of violence without consequences....

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Investments

Directors’ Deals: YouGov founder’s family sells off stock

...benefits of scale and vertical integration....

February 16, 2024

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

Special ReportFuture of AI

Media groups look to AI tools to cut costs and complement storytelling

...and Google have been one of the factors in a global decline in revenues at newspaper groups....

March 26, 2024

News in-depthNews in-depth3 min

Tough times for vertical farming | FT Food Revolution

...But despite significant hype and $4bn investment in vertical farming over the past five years the sector is struggling. Layoffs and bankruptcies are blighting the industry....

July 18, 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

Boeing Co

Boeing’s Alaska Airlines blowout puts focus on Spirit AeroSystems

...It was spun out of Boeing in 2005 as the US group looked to shift fixed costs of its manufacturing facilities and labour to the variable cost of procuring parts from a supplier....

January 8, 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

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

News in-depthColombia

‘Armed groups, coca crops and death’: how prices crashed for cocaine’s raw material

...The think-tank also suggested the coca market was still adjusting to the fallout from the demobilisation of the Farc guerrilla group in 2017....

September 22, 2023

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