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  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Finematter digital certificates smooth way for circular jewellery economy

    Platform aims to increase transparency on provenance of pieces from smaller makers, boosting resale potential

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Hector Torres
    Advocates for friendshoring have not reckoned with digital trade

    Determining whether bytes originated in a ‘friendly country’ is painstaking work

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Government of Italy
    European Commission attacks Italy’s support for cash transactions

    Brussels warns prime minister Giorgia Meloni not to undermine tax evasion fight

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Investors withdraw record levels of coins from crypto exchanges

    Traders rush for exits alarmed at safety of their assets after FTX filed for bankruptcy

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    Italian economy
    Meloni pushes back on Italy’s shift into digital payments age

    Brussels may resist plan to give businesses the right to demand cash for low-value transactions

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Rana Foroohar
    Digital trade must not become a zero-sum game

    The danger for policymakers is that information has a tendency to be monopolised

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Special ReportNext Tech Growth Markets
    FT-Omdia Digital Economies Index: tomorrow’s top tech growth markets

    Vietnam heads this year’s list of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    What FTX’s collapse means for crypto

    The crypto exchange’s swift descent into bankruptcy shocked the financial industry. FT reporters explain what went wrong, and what it all means

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Sam Bankman-Fried apologises for FTX crisis

    Crypto exchange’s chief admits venue did not have funds to meet surge in withdrawals

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Edward Stringer
    Putin knows that undersea cables are the west’s Achilles heel

    Moscow has invested in subsurface naval capabilities that hold the world’s internet infrastructure at risk

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Who killed the social media ad boom?

    A decade of breakneck growth has ground to a halt and there are plenty of suspects beyond the slowing global economy

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Greg Peters
    Hitting content providers with internet tolls would damage the web ecosystem

    Entertainment is not a cost that ISPs have to bear — it generates the demand they need for growth

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    The stubborn persistence of paper in a digital world

    People still like doing business face to face

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    EU weighs paying for Musk’s donated Starlink internet service in Ukraine

    Member states suggest formalising SpaceX contract after billionaire threatened to end the service

  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    Telecoms
    Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth

    Rising prices of critical components cast shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centres

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    Call for entries: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023

    Apply for a place in the fifth annual FT ranking, compiled with Statista

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Special ReportUpskilling
    Fast-changing world creates training challenge

    New industries will require new knowhow — but shortfalls in more basic skills also need to be remedied

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Pilita Clark
    A new wave of tech work is too baffling for too many

    If you don’t know your XaaS from your UX and UI, you are not alone and that’s a problem

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    News in-depthTechnology regulation
    Big Tech pulls out all the stops to halt ‘self-preferencing’ antitrust bill

    Lobbying by the likes of Amazon and Alphabet ramps up as Congress prepares to vote on landmark legislation

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    Eswar Prasad
    DeFi’s promise of democratising finance remains a distant reality

    Decentralised finance risks concentrating economic power and exacerbating existing inequities

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special Report
    The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

    The FT’s third annual ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate. Plus: US medtech takes the top spot; Calgary tech scene rivals energy sector; ecommerce giant aims to ‘democratise finance’; why LatAm risks squandering pandemic gains

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Michael Stott
    LatAm will squander pandemic gains without digital infrastructure push

    The Covid tech boom could turn out to be a statistical blip

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    MercadoLibre aims to ‘democratise finance’ with payments app

    MercadoPago has become one of the most lucrative parts of the Latin American ecommerce giant’s business

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Healthcare joins leading pack of the Americas’ high-growth companies

    While tech still features prominently on the latest annual FT ranking, pharmaceuticals and health account for half the top 10

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Media
    Advertising gig platform Talenthouse to list in Zurich

    London-based company says demand for digital content is spurring growth

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