Stablecoins reconsidered

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. The S&P 500 rallied yesterday, as investors rejoiced over Donald Trump backing down, for now, from higher tariffs … Read more

The quiet power of friendship

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is group chief executive of Nesta, a UK innovation charity When my father was orphaned after fleeing on foot from Myanmar (then Burma) to Chennai during the second world war, he had to … Read more

In cyber attacks, humans can be the weakest link

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Social engineering used to refer to large-scale campaigns to alter the attitudes or behaviour of a population. These days, cyber specialists use it to mean something else: manipulating individuals into performing actions or divulging information … Read more

the ball is in Europe’s court

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former supervisory board member of the European Central Bank and a senior fellow at Bocconi University Paul Volcker’s famous judgment against financial innovation sounds exaggerated today. In late 2009, the former … Read more