Rial to be changed to the toman after five decades of inflation

Sterling under pressure from US-China angst and renewed Brexit concerns

Analysts fear unintended consequences of central bank’s vast foreign-currency holdings

Country’s finance minister seeks to reassure investors on impact of Covid-19

Ankara’s banking regulator acts after currency slides below level reached in 2018 crisis

Schools can spread infection, but long absences mean gaps in learning

Programmes should be flexible and help workers move to in-demand sectors

Investors are looking to the future, but should beware of over-optimism

Regulators must ensure that lenders’ defences are sufficiently robust

Near-unconditional cash transfers are the most efficient form of relief

Economic woes go well beyond the coronavirus crisis

New workers could suffer the scarring effects of lockdown for decades

Airline’s biggest shareholder calls for CFO’s exit over failure to scrap £4.5bn Airbus order 

Founder urges FCA to act as he presses airline to cancel multibillion pound Airbus order

Potential adversaries could seek to exploit vulnerabilities triggered by pandemic, warn analysts

Oil and gas company in Texas given approval to use unmanned aircraft to inspect vital infrastructure

Aircraft maker’s chief executive says focus will be on rebuilding balance sheet post-pandemic

Airline calls shareholder vote on directors in latest escalation of dispute

Big-name investors such as Elliott and Caxton act on concerns over debasement of money

Banning computers from ‘lock-ups’ forces rethink on how markets respond

Paper released by UK regulators homes in on tactic known as latency arbitrage

Watchdog also offers concession on post-Brexit share trading

Christian Noyer believes projects available to consumers are a way off yet

Industry bodies had been lobbying for longer postponement over fears of hit to bond markets

Acquisition allows group to build bigger share of the $6.6tn-a-day market

London bourse’s transformative acquisition is facing more scrutiny than expected

Platforms report soaring activity after coronavirus outbreak spooks investors

UK interdealer broker forecasts low single-digit revenue growth for the year

Industry associations demand detail to manage risk of trading from home

Dutch bank was forced to close out positions at substantial loss

Watchdogs put 12-month extension on new margin requirements, citing coronavirus threat

US benchmark S&P 500 can drop a maximum 7 per cent before first protection kicks in

Shares in brokerage firm drop overnight after it discloses payments to clearing houses

Business being bought from Blackstone-led consortium has lost ground to Bloomberg

Arca in San Francisco and Box in Chicago will throw open their doors on Monday

Hedge fund calls for court investigation into 2018 transfer of MyTheresa

Charity Commission intervened over £350,000 of payments to Duke of York’s private secretary

iPhone maker says it will make county-by-county assessments as states start to ease lockdowns

Tweaked timepieces popular with public but some original makers cry foul

Tim Hayward helps the FT's Daniel Garrahan turn his kitchen into a Parisian bistro

Tetra Pak’s innovation overtook the glass bottle but it needs to be improved

The need to raise donations led MIT’s Media Lab to a terrible misjudgment

The US is in danger of lurching from lax oversight of vaping to banning it unwisely

Energy companies facing climate protests need to limit the wasteful use of their products

LVMH’s $14.5bn bid for Tiffany shows power passing from gem miners to luxury marketers

Fortunes are created by technology and globalisation, as well as talent and enterprise

Bernard Arnault’s company is the modern incarnation of La Samaritaine and Neiman Marcus

The video app loved by teenagers is powered by artificial intelligence and protectionism

In 16 years of columns on business, the only constant has been disruptive innovation

From high-tech to hygge, our homes changed at top speed in the 2010s — what will the 2020s bring?