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Jonathan Guthrie

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Jonathan Guthrie is an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. The award-winning Lex team analyses businesses and investment trends from London, New York, San Francisco and Seoul. Aside from Lex, Jonathan writes regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

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    LexCompanies
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    Plus, banks, SEC, private equity, mental health apps, AI, Evroc, C3.ai, Apple, Inditex

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    Higher levels of cover would increase implicit subsidies to reckless bankers

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
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    Plus, OpenAI, Lenovo, Meta, Greenhill, Credit Suisse

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    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to scrapping industry break on ‘carried interest’

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
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  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
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    Hunting trophies do not furnish a room

    As a number of countries introduce bans, our columnist reflects on the fate of his inherited stuffed owl, Edwardian ostrich egg and monster pike

  • Monday, 3 April, 2023
    Inside BusinessEuropean banks
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    Plus, UBS, First Republic, Signature Bank, ChatGPT, Maserati, John Lewis

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    Plus, CRH, Arm, Goldman Sachs, Santander, UniCredit, Stripe, Tesla, Stripe

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  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
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    International investors in the UK need not worry that the country has returned to the bad old days of 1978-79

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    Inside BusinessGold
    Why gold is the bright stuff for would-be sanctions busters

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