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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. Against the odds, Hong Kong is back challenging for the top of the listing league tables this year. That’s a sharp reversal from the stalled pipeline and investor exodus of just two years ago. It … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A decade ago, I asked officials at the New York Federal Reserve if I could peek at their gold reserves. They refused point blank. The reason? Fed officials have long taken pride in having the … Read more

I had wanted to live in London all my life. My childhood was a rural one, spent in Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, and I longed for the ambition and possibilities of the city. As a young writer I made it as far as Oxford before falling in love with a Scot and making a … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. People say nothing funny ever happens on LinkedIn and in my experience, people are right. But the other day, a colleague showed me a post on the site from a man named Chris who said … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The unusual thing about last week’s New York Democratic mayoral primary wasn’t who voters chose, but how they did it. The party employs a ranked choice system: select five candidates in order, and if your … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ultimately, there is only one constitutional reason someone is prime minister. They are there because they can command a majority in the House of Commons. No longer do they fall the moment they lose a … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer may have hoped for a more enthusiastic reaction to the long-awaited launch of his government’s industrial strategy on Monday. But it has been overtaken by other events this week, … Read more

Thirty-odd years ago, when I first entered the world of financial services, investment platforms were very much in their infancy. According to some definitions, they didn’t even exist.  Today millions of individuals in the UK invest online. Some do so through platforms that allow them to work alongside their financial advisers, others through platforms that … Read more

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