Patrick Jenkins

Monday, 30 January, 2023

Inside BusinessBarclays PLC

Barclays, Venkat and the ghost of Edward Bramson

Bank seeks to turn around investor concerns that have driven down its valuation

Monday, 16 January, 2023

Inside BusinessHong Kong

Hong Kong’s financial hub is at a crossroads

Can Asia’s key capital market maintain its international outlook?

Monday, 19 December, 2022

Inside BusinessCity of London

How poor smart kids could help boost the City

Financial sector’s social diversity initiative needs more meat but could be important

Monday, 5 December, 2022

Inside BusinessUK energy

Is Octopus-Bulb a replay of Lloyds-HBOS?

Or has everyone learnt the lessons of 14 years ago?

Monday, 21 November, 2022

Financial services

Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment

The fintech disrupters of the payments sector are no such thing

Monday, 7 November, 2022

Inside BusinessHSBC Holdings PLC

HSBC strains reach breaking point

The bank’s days as the financial embodiment of globalisation are over

Monday, 24 October, 2022

Inside BusinessGilts

The LDI crisis is spurring a seismic shift in the gilt market

Reduced demand from pension funds will change the government bond market

Monday, 3 October, 2022

Inside BusinessPensions crisis

Failure to learn lessons of 2008 caused LDI pension blow-up

There are clear parallels with many of the issues that led to the financial crisis

Friday, 23 September, 2022

Bank bonuses

Kwarteng has sent a powerful message on bankers’ bonuses

Ending the cap was the first concrete sign of a promised deregulatory agenda

Monday, 12 September, 2022

Inside BusinessEnergy sector

Energy crisis should spur regulatory overhaul

Critical infrastructure needs more robust oversight just as banks did after 2008

Monday, 12 September, 2022

Brexit

Brussels offers to reduce Northern Ireland border checks

EU’s Brexit chief ‘encouraged’ by UK intention to seek negotiated settlement on trade

Monday, 29 August, 2022

Inside BusinessFinancial services

Is $110mn man Jake Freeman lucky gambler or conviction investor?

Student bet his whole $27mn on one volatile stock and sold his stake just weeks later

Friday, 19 August, 2022

Lunch with the FT

Starling Bank’s Anne Boden: ‘I was ashamed to be a banker’

The fintech entrepreneur on the culture of the City in the 1980s, confounding expectations in Silicon Valley — and falling out with her co-founder

Monday, 1 August, 2022

Inside BusinessCommercial property

The triple whammy for office real estate

Rising interest rates, remote working and the push for greener buildings suggest a bleak outlook for the commercial property market

Tuesday, 26 July, 2022

Credit Suisse Group AG

Credit Suisse set to name Ulrich Körner as chief executive

Thomas Gottstein departure ends tumultuous period for Swiss bank

Monday, 18 July, 2022

Inside BusinessBank of England

The Bank of England’s bizarre mortgage decision

With interest rates rising, now is not the time to scrap the test of affordability for home loans

Monday, 4 July, 2022

Inside BusinessBanks

Banks cannot escape a gloomy economic outlook

A pause on stress tests by European regulators feels oddly out of sync with a darkening picture

Friday, 24 June, 2022

InterviewCryptocurrencies

SEC chair urges ‘one rule book’ for crypto to avoid gaps in oversight

Gary Gensler seeks to share information with derivatives agency to better regulate digital assets

Monday, 20 June, 2022

Inside BusinessItalian economy

Italy and its banks feel the heat of spooked bond market

Markets are singling out the country as the worst of a bad lot among eurozone nations

Tuesday, 7 June, 2022

Inside BusinessFinancial services

Buy now, pay later must be regulated — now

Industry operators are money lenders and should be treated as such before it blows up in all our faces

Saturday, 4 June, 2022

Insurance

Aviva explores using shareholder money to fund infrastructure projects

Insurance group wants to back early-stage investments with a social purpose

Friday, 27 May, 2022

Lunch with the FT

Aviva’s Amanda Blanc: ‘You prepare for everything. You do not prepare for comments like that’

The insurance chief on fighting back against sexism at her AGM, growing up in a mining community — and how big business can do good

Monday, 16 May, 2022

Inside BusinessESG investing

The new ESG realpolitik and the fossil fuel bonanza

Frankness over the need for oil and gas is required in the transition to a greener future

Friday, 6 May, 2022

Stablecoins

‘Bad things will happen’ if stablecoins are not regulated soon

Top Republican tells FT that Congress should write new rules for fast-growing cryptocurrency

Monday, 25 April, 2022

Inside BusinessInvestor activism

Elon Musk blazes trail for new-model investor activism

Underperforming companies are vulnerable to increasing pressure

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