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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP chief Bernard Looney resigns over past relationships with colleagues

      Irish executive has led British oil major since 2020

      Bernard Looney
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      ObituaryBrian Winterflood
      Brian Winterflood, champion of small listed companies, 1937-2023

      A charming but exacting ‘jobber’ who brought together risk-takers to invest in future innovators

      A man in a shirt and tie stands in front of a bank of computer screens
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      LetterOne chair Mervyn Davies receives bumper payout after Russian oligarchs’ exit

      City grandee received total of $40mn last year after Russian billionaire shareholders were targeted by UK sanctions

      Mervyn Davies
    • 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

      Simpson’s Tavern has started a crowdfunder after it received a £385,000 bill from its Bermuda-based landlord that could force the centuries-old eatery to shut permanently
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
      Deloitte vice-chair to leave Big Four firm after drunken tirade at Royal Ascot

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

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    • 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

      FT journalist Dan McCrum
    • 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

      British authorities seized the £38mn Phi while it was docked at London’s Canary Wharf on Wednesday
    • 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

      Kemp House in London
    • 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

      HMS Ambush alongside Valiant Jetty at Faslane
    • 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

      Illustration of Jan Marsalek
    • 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

      Jan Marsalek with one of the confidential documents he showed to traders in London
    • 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

      Citizen Lab said phishing attacks by Dark Basin took the form of emails made to look like those from popular services such as YouTube, Dropbox and LinkedIn
    • 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
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      The Zimbabwification of Wall St

      Remember that stocks are a store of value

    • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
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      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

      Targets of operation Palldium photographed in London
    • 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

      A tree shaped by the prevailing winds stands near turbines at the Avangrid Renewables' Baffin Wind Power Project in Sarita, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. In the cut-throat Texas energy market, the construction of coastal wind turbines—some 900 in all—has had a profound impact. It's been terrific for consumers, helping further drive down electricity bills, but horrible for natural gas-fired generators. Photographer: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg
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