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    Robert Smith

    Capital Markets Correspondent

    Robert Smith writes about corporate debt and distress for the FT. He has been at the forefront of several of the FT’s high-profile financial investigations, winning acclaim for his role in exposing former prime minister David Cameron’s dubious lobbying efforts for Greensill Capital in 2021.

    Robert has won numerous awards for his reporting, including Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards and the Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Frasers Group
      Frasers tries to pull Morgan Stanley boss into margin call legal fight

      Sports Direct owner seeks testimony from James Gorman as it gears up for High Court battle with investment bank

      James Gorman
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Dominic Raab and other Tory MPs prepare for life after parliament

      With the Labour party 18 points ahead in the polls many Conservatives are weighing up their career prospects

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Lex Greensill
      Lex Greensill and the coconut ‘army’

      There they are, all standing in a row

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Lex Greensill
      Lex Greensill’s family backs sustainable coconut waste start-up

      Shareholding is financier’s first known investment since collapse of Greensill Capital

      Lex Greensill
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Sanjeev Gupta
      Gupta claims Greensill assured him loan documents ‘are irrelevant’

      Witness statements by metals magnate say verbal agreements underpinned billions in financing from firm

      Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill charged ‘excessive’ fee to arrange NHS project financing

      Collapsed firm’s insurer claims it deliberately avoided disclosing the £10.4mn structuring charge

      A logo displayed on the offices of Greensill Capital in the Daresbury Park business estate near Warrington
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      News in-depthAltice Europe NV
      Altice fraud arrests throw spotlight on Drahi’s elusive right-hand man

      Co-founder and key troubleshooter Armando Pereira was kept away from investors

      Montage of Altice logo, Armando Pereira and Patrick Drahi
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Telecoms
      Altice co-founder placed under house arrest in Portugal in corruption probe

      Armando Pereira suspected of being involved in scheme to rig telecoms and media group’s local procurement processes

      Armando Pereira, Altice co-founder
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Lars Windhorst discloses multimillion loss on sale of Berlin football club

      Private equity group 777 bought the struggling team for a fraction of the financier’s original €374mn investment

      Hertha Berlin players during a football match in May
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Person in the News
      The humbling of Casino chief Jean-Charles Naouri

      The French retail tycoon is about to be wiped out as part of a bailout of his cash-strapped empire

      Montage including photo of Jean-Charles Naouri
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Lars Windhorst hit with €150mn freezing order

      German financier is trying to fend off litigation from a number of aggrieved creditors

      Lars Windhorst
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      AT&T Inc
      AT&T’s $13bn pile of puzzling payables

      Ceci n’est pas une supply-chain finance programme

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Indebted financier Lars Windhorst denies living ‘billionaire lifestyle’

      German struggles to answer questions about net worth and solvency at London court

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Insurance
      Assured Guaranty has more than $10bn exposure to troubled UK water companies

      US insurer could end up on the hook in the case of defaults or missed interest payments

      A water engineer, dressed in a helmet and high-visibility clothing, uses a listening stick while shining a torch down a hole in a pavement in London
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Sanjeev Gupta
      Gupta’s landlord and lender push to wind up trading firm 

      Belgravia property owner and US investment firm pursue industrialist through courts

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Nigel Farage
      Nigel Farage downgraded from Coutts to NatWest

      Former Brexit party leader says he is victim of political persecution but ‘Queen’s bank’ has strict criteria

      Nigel Farage
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
      Billionaires Křetínský and Niel compete for Casino

      Two competing groups offer cash injections as French supermarket races to restructure debts

      A customer walks with her trolley in a Casino Hyperfrais hypermarket
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      German financier Lars Windhorst found in contempt of court

      London high court judge finds financier deliberately missed hearing in case brought by creditor

      Lars Windhorst
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      ExplainerThames Water PLC
      Why Thames Water is under growing strain

      Cost of utility’s £16bn debt has surpassed price increases it has been able to pass on to consumers

      A Thames Water tender
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
      Casino shares tumble on debt-to-equity conversion plan

      French food retailer warns that shareholders will be ‘massively’ diluted

      A Casino hypermarket in France
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden
      Swedish landlord SBB hit with accounting probe

      Investigation adds to challenges for company considering break-up or sale as debt refinancing looms

      The SBB headquarters in Stockholm
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      European banks
      UBS faces hit of millions of dollars over Credit Suisse’s Archegos failings

      Findings over failings at Swiss bank related to dealings with family office set to be published soon by global regulators

      People outside Archegos’s offices
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Greensill Capital
      Marsh sued for $143mn over Greensill insurance

      US group White Oak argues broker failed to pass on crucial information about collapsed firm’s cover

      Greensill offices in UK
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Cineworld Group PLC
      Cineworld bosses secure near $35mn exit payout

      CEO Mooky Greidinger and his brother Israel to receive most of the cash after group emerges from Chapter 11

      Mooky Greidinger
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Odey Asset Management LLP
      JPMorgan cuts ties with Odey Asset Management

      Move comes as firm’s subsidiary Brook Asset Management blocks withdrawals from one of its funds

      Crispin Odey
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