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Western business, the Kremlin and the war

This collection of articles explores the fallout of the war in Ukraine on Western companies operating in Russia

April 16, 2024

The sixth annual ranking of companies in the region with the highest growth. Health tech businesses thrive post-pandemic even as VC funding drops.

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

Special Report

FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies

This year’s ranking highlights businesses that have achieved rapid revenue rises while grappling with the effects of Covid-19, war, and an energy crisis

March 1, 2024

Fund management

Martin Gilbert faces investor revolt over governance concerns

...However, the company said earlier on Tuesday that McKellar, who joined at the same time as Gilbert, would retire as deputy chair and executive director at the end of the month....

April 17, 2024

News updates from January 19: S&P 500 closes at record high, Ford cuts production of electric truck

Travelers shares surge 7% after insurer doubles quarterly net profit

...Higher investment income on fixed-income returns also contributed to the rise in group profits, the company said on Friday....

January 19, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(The Home-Groan Globalist) — The self-fulfilling prophecy of public sector pensions (Risky Finance) — Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you (WaPo)...

March 25, 2024

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

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

Artificial intelligence

The rise of the chief AI officer

...As boards grapple with the opportunity and risk of generative artificial intelligence, companies are leaning into a new role: the chief AI officer....

April 14, 2024

Gillian Tett

Companies must rethink how they handle cyber risk

...for the company)....

April 18, 2024

Inside BusinessRichard Waters

Question of pay-off from AI hangs over Big Tech earnings

...That question will hang over the tech sector next week as some of the biggest companies report their latest quarterly earnings....

April 18, 2024

Markets InsightSharon Bell

European companies can close the valuation gap

...The shareholder rosters of the biggest European companies show they are largely held by international investors....

April 10, 2024

Stephen Bush

It’s time to lift the veil on incompetence

...This is a company that can’t deliver the basic ask of an aeroplane manufacturer that its planes get from A to B in one piece....

April 16, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Welcome back Premium

...Lex last week laid out the end game for the troubled company, after its nine shareholders said they were ready to write off £5bn and weren’t willing to inject new equity into the company....

April 3, 2024

Americas companies

FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2024

...The least represented sector was aerospace and defence, with just two companies. The vast majority of the companies included were, as before, from the US — 387 of the 500....

April 4, 2024

FT Magazine

How did customer service get so bad?

...So who are the worst offenders? According to the ICS, it’s the energy companies. This tallies with separate data from Which?...

April 18, 2024

News in-depthEU defence

The companies benefiting from Europe’s defence revival

...The company has developed civil and military unmanned aerial systems. Defence procurement will also have to adapt to keep up with the rapid advances offered by more agile technology companies....

February 23, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

US & Canadian companies20 min

Citigroup and the 'financial supermarket' experiment | FT Film

...GILLIAN TETT: There's a cynical view sometimes expressed on Wall Street which is that when a big company gives a top job to a woman, it's often because the company is in trouble....

November 27, 2023

Unhedged podcast17 min listen

The dilemma of the supercompany

...But how should investors view these new giants, and will the returns last forever? Also we short the world-ex-US trade and go long the gerontocracy....

February 15, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

The surprise winner of the US-China chip wars

...Plus, tension between Beijing and Washington over access to technology has prompted many companies to open factories in south-east Asia....

March 13, 2024

UK equities

The hunt for good-value UK stocks

...To gauge quality, scour company reports to find the company’s return on equity (sometimes called return on invested capital)....

March 29, 2024

Live news updates from April 19: Tesla margins narrow, UK inflations stays in double digits

US insurer Travelers suffers widening losses from natural catastrophes

...Travelers tends to report ahead of rivals, setting the tone for the sector, and the update follows a storm-hit 2022....

April 19, 2023

Unhedged podcast15 min listen

The zombie companies

...Today on the show, we take a look at companies on the edge of life and the private equity giants that own some of them. Also we short OpenAI and regrettably go long Covid....

November 21, 2023

Special ReportEurope’s Leading Start-up Hubs

The UK’s support network of hubs helps young companies grow

...“Most of the companies [in hubs] . . ....

March 14, 2024

InterviewMary Perkins

Specsavers founder Mary Perkins: ‘I spent the weekend writing 500 birthday cards’

...It had no external debt and it paid an interim dividend of £15mn to its Guernsey-based parent company during the period, which is reinvested in the wider business, the company said....

April 7, 2024

Letter

Letter: Companies that politicise ESG agenda risk self-harm

...Which company is most likely to survive — the one that can adapt to climate change or the one that cannot?...

April 1, 2024

LexJPMorgan Chase & Co

JPMorgan’s pivot to advertising means all companies are adtechs now Premium

...For good reason: the duopoly of Google and Meta, parent company of Facebook, still rules the $270bn US digital advertising market....

April 4, 2024

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