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April 23, 2024

InterviewArtificial intelligence

BCG says AI consulting will supply 20% of revenues this year

...They worked quicker and work was of a higher quality....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

UK housebuilding

UK sends Canary Wharf landlord first cladding bill under new powers

...Michael Gove has launched a legal action to force the landlord of a Canary Wharf apartment complex to pay £20.5mn towards building safety works, as the UK government increases efforts to pursue the owners...

March 28, 2024

Flutter Entertainment PLC

Flutter ditches plan to hire Deloitte after move to US listing

...Flutter did not say whether Deloitte would be paid for work it had done in 2023 in preparation for taking over the audit....

April 7, 2024

Royal Mail

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

...The plans would reduce the burden of the universal service obligation, which forces the company to deliver items everywhere in the UK for the same price....

April 17, 2024

Workplace pensions

Germany to create €200bn fund to support strained pension system

Plan aimed at stabilising retirement scheme as ‘baby boomer’ generation exits work force

March 5, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Personal Finance

Crypto miners poised to dig a little deeper

...Miners will have to work twice as hard for the same money as the number of bitcoin rewards drops from 6.25 to 3.125 — or put another way, all else being equal, production costs will double to about $50,000...

March 15, 2024

LexBanks

Financial services: bank runs stoke accounting debate Premium

...Why not, some mused, force banks to mark everything to market and be done with it? Seductive as it sounds, this may not be the best solution. Banks are in the business of maturity “transformation”....

December 26, 2023

UK banks

FCA proposes rules to force banks to safeguard cash services

...The reforms would also require lenders to guarantee they would not close cash points until additional services were made available in those areas....

December 7, 2023

Investment research

Sorry, rebundling research isn’t going to work

...“It works in practice, but does it work in theory?” No one knows who first uttered this quip, but it has been applied to scientists, economists and politicians....

April 15, 2024

Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers

Practice of law: best examples in legal work

...The seven sets of case studies showcased here and overleaf feature examples of the most innovative work and legal services that law firms have provided for their clients in North America....

December 5, 2023

EY

EY’s Wirecard audits marred by ‘repeated grave’ violations, says watchdog

Big Four firm botched audit work and quality control over several years, Apas concludes in multiyear investigation

April 19, 2024

Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian

The conflicting forces at work in the global economy

...Additionally, there’s a growing recognition that old-style stimulus is not just less feasible but also less desirable now that we operate in a world of insufficiently flexible supply of goods and services...

January 29, 2024

News in-depthShipping

Surge in maritime violence boosts demand for private security forces

...“We only provide that service to a very select clientele now,” Johnson said of the armed guards....

April 21, 2024

Work & Careers

Can bureaucracy be refashioned as a force for good?

...For Landry, the mission is still a work in progress. But it is one that is growing....

December 27, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers

Business of law: best examples in legal work

...They feature leading examples of law firms changing how they manage their own people, and how they are reinventing services and delivery models....

December 5, 2023

EU defence

Germany considers revival of national service in ‘landmark’ military reforms

...Germany has unveiled the most sweeping military reforms since the cold war, including the possible revival of national service, as part of efforts to better prepare its armed forces to defend Nato territory...

April 4, 2024

EY

CVC expresses interest in EY’s Italian consulting arm

...So-called Project Everest was abandoned after more than a year of work that cost $600mn....

April 18, 2024

Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants

Companies pull back on sustainability advice as demand shifts

...Second, technology that can enable the sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements now in force....

February 29, 2024

Anjli Raval

Beware the rise of the everything adviser

...It follows a broader trend in professional services....

March 25, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Netanyahu admits Israeli forces killed aid workers

...“Aid workers, and those doing humanitarian work, and indeed all innocent civilians, need to be provided with protection.”...

April 2, 2024

Chinese business & finance

China’s ‘red circle’ law firms rush to tap other markets

...Chinese firms were increasingly competing for capital markets work such as initial public offerings in Hong Kong, one of the lawyers said....

April 18, 2024

Investing in funds

Why ETFs work better in illiquid markets

...Pressures from these investor runs could force funds to sell assets quickly, which would further depress valuations....

February 7, 2024

Northern Ireland

More lives lost than saved in N Ireland due to UK’s ‘Stakeknife’ agent, says report

...Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service last month decided not to prosecute 12 individuals reported by Operation Kenova....

March 8, 2024

Business travel

AmexGBT buys rival CWT for $570mn in bet on business travel

...Patrick Andersen, CWT’s chief executive, said: that “joining forces with AmexGBT helps accelerate our vision of a tech-enabled future for business travel”....

March 25, 2024

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