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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For years, Nigeria has been not so much a sleeping giant as a comatose one. Home to nearly one in five sub-Saharan Africans, its market of 230mn people should be an engine of continental growth. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wise, the London-listed fintech group, has taken some time to grow into its name. Since its 2021 direct listing, it has had a rollercoaster ride of interest rate shocks and regulatory mis-steps. But the company … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an adviser on Islamic finance, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and millennium fellow at the Atlantic Council The global sukuk market for Islamic finance faces a pivotal moment. A new framework from the … Read more
I first became suspicious of fee increases when the school bought a drone. This was one of the costs the headmaster used to justify an 8 per cent increase in a year when inflation was running at a quarter of that. In his letter to parents the head explained that a sophisticated drone was essential … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world That was quite the shock. Wednesday’s ruling from the Court of International Trade saying Donald Trump had wrongly used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap tariffs at will on trading partners … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The slogan “take back control” taps into something deep in the British electorate — or so politicians seem to believe, since it continues to pop up in speeches almost a decade after it was first … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Government bond markets should be seen, but not felt. These giant pools of capital are meant to move slowly. Japan, home to one of the biggest and usually most boring of all, is bucking that … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a market for sweeping economic analyses, generally predicting that the sky is about to fall on our heads. Thomas Malthus arguably started it with his 18th-century prediction that population growth would always run … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence chatbots, cloud storage platforms and financial systems all depend on data centres that operate round the clock. These facilities underpin the digital economy where even brief interruptions can have far-reaching consequences. That means … Read more
