Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Not long ago, we lived in one of the most peaceful eras in modern history. 2005 saw the fewest recorded deaths in armed conflict since the second world war, according to the Uppsala … Read more
After decades of being labelled risk-averse technology laggards, corporate legal departments are emerging as enthusiastic early adopters of artificial intelligence. Legal services — often information-dense, analytical and procedural — are fertile ground for the AI-powered automation of tasks including drafting contracts and providing initial legal opinions, experts say. For in-house legal teams considering AI legal … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity-backed software group Visma has chosen London over Amsterdam for the planned initial public offering of the €19bn software company next year, scoring a rare win for the UK’s beleaguered stock market. British buyout … Read more
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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. As more companies order their workers back to the office, queues at coffee shops in London are definitely getting longer. With most of the capital’s chains charging around £4 a cup, it’s also an expensive … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The author is Professor of Sustainable Finance at Vlerick Business School in Brussels Sergio Ermotti, chief executive of UBS, is facing a dilemma as he considers his bank’s future in a network created to drive … 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 US companies are maintaining climate commitments while trimming their messaging about it, as they walk a tightrope between competing pressures on the environment, research shows. An exclusive analysis shared with the Financial … Read more
The push to decarbonise European steelmaking suffered a fresh blow last week as ArcelorMittal turned down more than €1bn in public subsidies to convert its German plants to run on greener hydrogen. The company blamed the prohibitively high cost of energy, just as Swedish steel producer SSAB also admitted to delays at its flagship low-emission … 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 At least the Soviet Union only produced one “Sputnik moment”, when the launch of its orbiting satellite in 1957 administered a galvanising shock to the US scientific and defence establishment. America’s current superpower … Read more
