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    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      City of London
      No more sausages: how a financial dispute brought down a City institution

      It is the ultimate irony that Simpson’s Tavern has fallen victim to the capriciousness of market forces

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Deloitte LLP
      Deloitte vice-chair to leave Big Four firm after drunken tirade at Royal Ascot

      Stephen Cahill made sexist, racist and bullying remarks, say eyewitnesses

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      Coming to a screen near you, the Wirecard scandal

      Netflix documentary charts the story of how an FT reporter took down a huge German company

    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
      UK foreign policy
      Russian-owned superyacht seized in London is owned by Motiv Telecom founder

      Vitaly Vasilievich Kochetkov owns small mobile network in Urals region but is not an individual on UK sanctions list

    • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
      Financial fraud
      UK taxman seizes £26.5m furlough funds from ‘entrepreneur’

      Judge describes sums involved as ‘eye watering’ as he grants HMRC forfeiture order

    • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
      Markets
      Did FT Alphaville unwittingly fuel the GameStop madness?

      For r/WallStreetBets, inspiration was found in ageing pink pixels.

    • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
      Aerospace & Defence
      Babcock braced for big asset writedown

      New chief executive expected to draw line under previous management

    • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
      Pontin's
      Mark Carney banned from Pontins

      “Several guests are unwelcome at Pontins”. (And they all happen to have Irish surnames.)

    • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
      Markets
      The Worshipful Company of Stoners

      Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons DL will be spinning in his grave.

    • Monday, 7 December, 2020
      Prime property
      The Vulgarati return

      This time, outside of Zone 1.

    • Friday, 10 July, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      From payments to armaments: the double life of Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek

      A suspect in one of Germany’s biggest financial frauds talked of assembling a Libyan militia and bragged of adventures with Russian troops

    • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek touted Russian nerve gas documents

      Vanished chief operating officer of fraud-hit payments group hinted at secret service links

    • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
      FT SeriesThe new social contract
      ‘It’s a matter of fairness’: squeezing more tax from multinationals

      The cost of the coronavirus crisis means governments want to reduce tax avoidance by business

    • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
      European companies
      The Deutsche/Wirecard tap

      One consequence of Markus Braun’s downfall.

    • Friday, 19 June, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      The fund managers who kept faith with Wirecard

      Tim Albrecht of DWS and Alexander Darwall of Devon Equity Management made outsized bets despite fraud warnings

    • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
      Cyber Security
      Hackers for hire ‘targeted hundreds of institutions’

      Researchers found 28,000 web pages set up to steal passwords from elected officials, lawyers and journalists

    • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
      Mining
      A lost struggle to mine Afghan gold

      Venture set up by investment banker Ian Hannam runs out of funds

    • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
      FT AlphavilleFT Alphaville
      The Zimbabwification of Wall St

      Remember that stocks are a store of value

    • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
      FT AlphavilleWorld
      A clown spy bust?

      Re-upping some pictures of an odd couple snapped with a strange piece of kit, pointed at (now former) FT HQ...

    • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard critics targeted in London spy operation

      Former Libyan intelligence chief oversaw surveillance of investors including Crispin Odey

    • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
      FT AlphavilleHouse of Wirecard
      Initiating coverage of SocGen’s Richard-Maxime Beaudoux: “SELL”

      Wirecard analysis is defamatory and wrong

    • Friday, 11 October, 2019
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      US utility groups Avangrid and PPL in $67bn-plus merger talks

      Connecticut and Pennsylvania-based companies in discussions over possible combination

    • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
      FT AlphavilleGambling industry
      Is 'self-regulation' in the gambling sector hopelessly naive?

      'Trust us not to harm you,' say Flutter et al.

    • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
      Flutter Entertainment PLC
      Backdoor to Betfair: how to win £2,000 with no compliance checks

      Overseas gamblers can use loosely regulated partner sites to access UK platform

    • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
      FT AlphavilleNasa
      Has the world's media just fallen for an April Fools' hoax?

      We will find out at 2pm London time.

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