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  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    City of London
    No more sausages: how a financial dispute brought down a City institution

    It is the ultimate irony that Simpson’s Tavern has fallen victim to the capriciousness of market forces

  • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
    Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
    Deloitte vice-chair to leave Big Four firm after drunken tirade at Royal Ascot

    Stephen Cahill made sexist, racist and bullying remarks, say eyewitnesses

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Wirecard AG
    Coming to a screen near you, the Wirecard scandal

    Netflix documentary charts the story of how an FT reporter took down a huge German company

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    UK foreign policy
    Russian-owned superyacht seized in London is owned by Motiv Telecom founder

    Vitaly Vasilievich Kochetkov owns small mobile network in Urals region but is not an individual on UK sanctions list

  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    Financial fraud
    UK taxman seizes £26.5m furlough funds from ‘entrepreneur’

    Judge describes sums involved as ‘eye watering’ as he grants HMRC forfeiture order

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    Markets
    Did FT Alphaville unwittingly fuel the GameStop madness?

    For r/WallStreetBets, inspiration was found in ageing pink pixels.

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    Aerospace & Defence
    Babcock braced for big asset writedown

    New chief executive expected to draw line under previous management

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Pontin's
    Mark Carney banned from Pontins

    “Several guests are unwelcome at Pontins”. (And they all happen to have Irish surnames.)

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Markets
    The Worshipful Company of Stoners

    Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons DL will be spinning in his grave.

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Prime property
    The Vulgarati return

    This time, outside of Zone 1.

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    From payments to armaments: the double life of Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek

    A suspect in one of Germany’s biggest financial frauds talked of assembling a Libyan militia and bragged of adventures with Russian troops

  • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
    Wirecard AG
    Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek touted Russian nerve gas documents

    Vanished chief operating officer of fraud-hit payments group hinted at secret service links

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    FT SeriesThe new social contract
    ‘It’s a matter of fairness’: squeezing more tax from multinationals

    The cost of the coronavirus crisis means governments want to reduce tax avoidance by business

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    European companies
    The Deutsche/Wirecard tap

    One consequence of Markus Braun’s downfall.

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    The fund managers who kept faith with Wirecard

    Tim Albrecht of DWS and Alexander Darwall of Devon Equity Management made outsized bets despite fraud warnings

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
    Cyber Security
    Hackers for hire ‘targeted hundreds of institutions’

    Researchers found 28,000 web pages set up to steal passwords from elected officials, lawyers and journalists

  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    Mining
    A lost struggle to mine Afghan gold

    Venture set up by investment banker Ian Hannam runs out of funds

  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
    FT AlphavilleFT Alphaville
    The Zimbabwification of Wall St

    Remember that stocks are a store of value

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
    FT AlphavilleWorld
    A clown spy bust?

    Re-upping some pictures of an odd couple snapped with a strange piece of kit, pointed at (now former) FT HQ...

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Wirecard critics targeted in London spy operation

    Former Libyan intelligence chief oversaw surveillance of investors including Crispin Odey

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
    FT AlphavilleHouse of Wirecard
    Initiating coverage of SocGen’s Richard-Maxime Beaudoux: “SELL”

    Wirecard analysis is defamatory and wrong

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    US utility groups Avangrid and PPL in $67bn-plus merger talks

    Connecticut and Pennsylvania-based companies in discussions over possible combination

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    FT AlphavilleGambling industry
    Is 'self-regulation' in the gambling sector hopelessly naive?

    'Trust us not to harm you,' say Flutter et al.

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Flutter Entertainment PLC
    Backdoor to Betfair: how to win £2,000 with no compliance checks

    Overseas gamblers can use loosely regulated partner sites to access UK platform

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
    FT AlphavilleNasa
    Has the world's media just fallen for an April Fools' hoax?

    We will find out at 2pm London time.

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