Patrick Jenkins

Friday, 17 March, 2023

The best books of the week

Blue Blood — inside the house of Cazenove

Robert Pickering’s book is a fascinating account of the triumphs and travails of a storied financial institution

Monday, 13 March, 2023

Kenneth C. Griffin

US capitalism is ‘breaking down before our eyes’, says Ken Griffin

Citadel founder argues that refusing to bail out SVB depositors in full would be ‘great lesson in moral hazard’

Monday, 13 March, 2023

Inside BusinessExecutive Pay

Alpha males plus poor governance equals big pay deals

Recent events at UniCredit echo those at Barclays a decade ago

Monday, 27 February, 2023

Inside BusinessExchange traded funds

The inherent flaws of corporate bond ETFs

The investment vehicles present a worrying systemic vulnerability

Tuesday, 21 February, 2023

Vanguard Group Inc

Vanguard chief defends decision to pull asset manager out of climate alliance

Champion of low-cost trackers warns against expecting superior returns from ESG funds and alternative strategies

Monday, 13 February, 2023

Inside BusinessCredit Suisse Group AG

Six numbers that show why Credit Suisse has little leeway

Disappointing results leave no more room for accidents as it carries out restructuring

Monday, 30 January, 2023

Inside BusinessBarclays PLC

Barclays, Venkat and the ghost of Edward Bramson

Bank seeks to turn around investor concerns that have driven down its valuation

Monday, 16 January, 2023

Inside BusinessHong Kong

Hong Kong’s financial hub is at a crossroads

Can Asia’s key capital market maintain its international outlook?

Monday, 19 December, 2022

Inside BusinessCity of London

How poor smart kids could help boost the City

Financial sector’s social diversity initiative needs more meat but could be important

Monday, 5 December, 2022

Inside BusinessUK energy

Is Octopus-Bulb a replay of Lloyds-HBOS?

Or has everyone learnt the lessons of 14 years ago?

Monday, 21 November, 2022

Financial services

Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment

The fintech disrupters of the payments sector are no such thing

Monday, 7 November, 2022

Inside BusinessHSBC Holdings PLC

HSBC strains reach breaking point

The bank’s days as the financial embodiment of globalisation are over

Monday, 24 October, 2022

Inside BusinessGilts

The LDI crisis is spurring a seismic shift in the gilt market

Reduced demand from pension funds will change the government bond market

Monday, 3 October, 2022

Inside BusinessPensions crisis

Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up

There are clear parallels with many of the issues that led to the financial crisis

Friday, 23 September, 2022

Bank bonuses

Kwarteng has sent a powerful message on bankers’ bonuses

Ending the cap was the first concrete sign of a promised deregulatory agenda

Monday, 12 September, 2022

Inside BusinessEnergy sector

Energy crisis should spur regulatory overhaul

Critical infrastructure needs more robust oversight just as banks did after 2008

Monday, 12 September, 2022

Brexit

Brussels offers to reduce Northern Ireland border checks

EU’s Brexit chief ‘encouraged’ by UK intention to seek negotiated settlement on trade

Monday, 29 August, 2022

Inside BusinessFinancial services

Is $110mn man Jake Freeman lucky gambler or conviction investor?

Student bet his whole $27mn on one volatile stock and sold his stake just weeks later

Friday, 19 August, 2022

Lunch with the FT

Starling Bank’s Anne Boden: ‘I was ashamed to be a banker’

The fintech entrepreneur on the culture of the City in the 1980s, confounding expectations in Silicon Valley — and falling out with her co-founder

Monday, 1 August, 2022

Inside BusinessCommercial property

The triple whammy for office real estate

Rising interest rates, remote working and the push for greener buildings suggest a bleak outlook for the commercial property market

Tuesday, 26 July, 2022

Credit Suisse Group AG

Credit Suisse set to name Ulrich Körner as chief executive

Thomas Gottstein departure ends tumultuous period for Swiss bank

Monday, 18 July, 2022

Inside BusinessBank of England

The Bank of England’s bizarre mortgage decision

With interest rates rising, now is not the time to scrap the test of affordability for home loans

Monday, 4 July, 2022

Inside BusinessBanks

Banks cannot escape a gloomy economic outlook

A pause on stress tests by European regulators feels oddly out of sync with a darkening picture

Friday, 24 June, 2022

InterviewCryptocurrencies

SEC chair urges ‘one rule book’ for crypto to avoid gaps in oversight

Gary Gensler seeks to share information with derivatives agency to better regulate digital assets

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