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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The thing about zealots, conspiracists, monomaniacs and cranks is their initial reasonableness. Few of them start off a conversation with their most extreme opinion. Their tactic is to establish common ground first, as a

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hackers stole about $1.5bn in crypto tokens from Bybit, in a heist the digital asset exchange described as the biggest theft to hit the industry. Ethereum coins were been taken from Bybit’s offline or “cold” wallet,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The first 30 days of Donald Trump’s second round in the White House have been a whirlwind of executive orders, lawsuits and controversy. Since his inauguration on January 20, the president has fired

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has been buffeted by a scandal over his promotion of a memecoin that soared in value before collapsing, triggering impeachment calls and lawsuits. Milei promoted a cryptocurrency called $LIBRA on

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The EU must be involved in negotiations with Russia over the end of the Ukraine war in order to map out Europe’s future security architecture, the bloc’s president has said. The call comes

Western capitals are braced for a potentially decisive week for European security, as the US and Russia begin talks to end the war in Ukraine and European leaders hold an emergency meeting to respond to the fast-moving negotiations taking place without them. Europe’s most powerful leaders will gather in Paris on Monday for crisis talks

As US vice-president JD Vance this week asserted that Europe itself — more than Russia or China — had turned into a threat to democratic values, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius grew visibly irritated. “This is unacceptable,” he was heard blurting out from the audience. The European leaders, generals and intelligence chiefs gathered at the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK ministers are exploring further scaling back legislation aimed at reforming the audit market as they seek to ease regulation on businesses in a push to boost economic growth. Ministers overseeing the Audit Reform and Corporate

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arm plans to launch its own chip this year after securing Meta as one of its first customers, in a radical change to the SoftBank-owned group’s business model of licensing its blueprints to the likes

European officials fear they will have to bear the cost of postwar security and reconstruction as they reel from being cut out of US-Russia peace negotiations on Ukraine. Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that their delegations would “start negotiations immediately” to end the war, blindsiding European capitals. More

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wall Street banks are close to selling $3bn worth of loans backing Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, offloading another mammoth portion of a debt deal that has lingered on their balance sheets for more than

Holding bitcoin is cool again. President Donald Trump has vowed to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”, words that have helped supercharge the token’s price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Wall Street banks and money managers are preparing to jump in. Investors hope Trump will turn the often-derided token into a mainstream financial asset

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A benchmark for Chinese technology stocks has risen more than 20 per cent in the past month, entering a bull market as investors pile into the country’s internet companies following DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence breakthrough. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Trump trade” bets on a stronger dollar and higher bond yields have backfired so far this year, as investors take a more bearish view on the economic fallout from the new US administration’s global trade

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump says he will impose tariffs of 25 per cent on all steel and aluminium imports into the US, threatening to unleash turmoil in commodity markets and ignite trade wars across the

EH Seo was born and raised in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan, but never doubted she would study and work elsewhere. “Not only my parents, but everyone’s parents wanted their kids to move to Seoul,” said Seo, 32, who left South Korea’s second-largest city straight after high school and now works in the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US President Donald Trump has temporarily paused measures to close a tariff exemption on low-cost shipments from China while officials figure out how to tax the millions of packages that arrive in the US every

Palantir is profiting from a “revolving door” of executives and officials passing between the $264bn data intelligence company and high level positions in Washington and Westminster, creating an influence network who have guided its extraordinary growth.The US group, whose billionaire chair Peter Thiel has been a key backer of Donald Trump, has enjoyed an astonishing

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump announced Nippon Steel had abandoned its plan to buy US Steel but would “invest heavily” in the iconic Pittsburgh producer. At a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

Donald Trump’s new cryptocurrency has sparked a flood of imitators, leading to warnings that investors risk being duped. More than 700 copycat and spam coins have been sent to Trump’s digital wallet by people apparently seeking to suggest their creations have his endorsement, according to a Financial Times analysis. It comes after the president and