BUSINESS

Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

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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. The UK government’s plan to curb legal migration was in preparation long before the breakthrough of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in English local elections on May 1. But the language used at its launch … Read more

Don’t make Isas a great British failure 

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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. Sweeping reforms to Isas are in the chancellor’s crosshairs, with the Treasury expected to launch a consultation on the future of tax-free savings and investment accounts. Yippee, said absolutely no one, apart from lobbyists at … Read more

Even with AI, junior bankers still need the grind

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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. The writer is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America and is now a managing director at Seda Experts The rise of artificial intelligence in investment banking has ushered in … Read more

Gen Z are changing what it means to be a ‘reader’

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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. Is reading in decline, again? Could this be the last generation of book lovers? Multiple news stories have reported concerns that Gen Z, the shorthand term for post-millennials born after 1997, aren’t reading for pleasure, … Read more

Trump’s patience with Netanyahu is running out

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and an FT contributing editor President Donald Trump lands on Tuesday in a region that speaks his language: the Gulf. There will be talk of trillions … Read more