Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence

UK expected to take gradual approach to lifting restrictions after Monday

Finance minister says bail-in may be needed amid severe economic and financial turmoil

Wall Street banks that advised on record IPO snub oil group with tepid ratings

77-year-old entrepreneur BR Shetty ‘looking to buy out Emirati partners’

Decision to drive down crude price after Russia row will hit revenue

City investor will back ailing groups looking to raise capital but warns of difficult decisions

Shelagh McLeod’s film is a small, warm drama of space and family

Postal group says strike ballot had ‘irregularities’ making it ‘null and void’

Treasury secretary enters war against Covid-19 with handicaps, but he’s all America has got

A key legacy of the self-described socialist has been to shift the Democratic party to the left

Gideon Rachman discusses the fraught process of selecting a new leadership team in Europe and the impact these choices will have on integration, Eastern Europe and the Brexit negotiations, with Jim Brunsden and Ben Hall

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Simon Kuper on how a new generation of CEOs has a different approach to life at the top

Experienced and adaptable bosses are more effective than rigid commanders

Pergolas to pythons: prisoners joined volunteers to create this wildlife haven

EU hosts online pledging event but €7.5bn target for vaccines, testing and treatment will only be first step

Mistrust is rising over how to implement Brexit

Indian entrepreneur claims a small group of executives were involved at the hospital group

Successful leadership depends on context, collaboration and character

Ross McEwan to step down from top job at end of October

Managers matter but it is hard to gauge what individuals contribute

Brussels opens in-depth investigation into Hyundai Heavy and Daewoo Shipbuilding merger

Warnings of disruptions heighten focus on China’s outsized role in global sourcing

Municipal authorities encourage cycling amid fears networks cannot cope with social distancing

Eric Clapton’s collaborator Duane Allman helped transform the song into a bravura rock showpiece

With swaggering reggae beats to modern Maghrebi, the near-original line-up reunites for a new studio album

Political sensitivities could be outweighed by workers’ construction expertise

Taipei says foreign visitors will be allowed to enter once a vaccine is discovered

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!

Good TV deserves a snack upgrade

Britain failed to take advantage of island status, warns panel, as it calls for more transparency

Pandemic has added to pressure on companies already facing tough financial conditions

Fears of food shortages as coronavirus forces facilities to shut and US cases top 1m

Patrick Jenkins discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's latest insider trading case and what it tells us about how market abuses are being tackled, why HSBC is on the defensive in China, and why Credit Suisse is suing the UK tax authorities.With special guest Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight for the Financial Conduct Authority.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, and James Kynge, global China editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Deutsche Bank's radical overhaul, Andrea Orcel's lawsuit against Santander and Ireland's plans to expand Dublin as a financial centre. With special guest Michael D'Arcy, Irish financial services minister.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt financial correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss what Citigroup's results tell us about the US bank earnings season, Standard Chartered chief Bill Winters' defiant response to investor criticism of his pay packet, and how banks are tackling the problem of money laundering, With special guest Brandon Daniels of Exiger 

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Robert Armstrong, US banking editor, David Crow, banking editor, and Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the outlook for the UK mortgage market, the reform of India's state-owned banks and leadership changes at UBS. With special guest Darren Cook, Mortgage Analytics Manager at Moneyfacts.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Benjamin Parkin, Mumbai correspondent, Alice Ross, wealth correspondent, and Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Facebook's recent talks with the world's central bankers on its plans for a digital currency, whether the UK's challenger banks can maintain their astonishing rate of expansion, and a potential scandal at JPMorgan as three of its metals traders are charged with market manipulation. With special guest Tom Merry, managing director at Accenture Strategy.

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ECB prepared to cut rates again, says its chief economist

Swedbank admits to money-laundering failings

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Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Mehreen Khan, Brussels correspondent, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss push-payment fraud in the UK and who should compensate the victims, why Deutsche Bank is coming under pressure from investors to appoint a new investment banking chief, and why JPMorgan Chase in the US has been selling off loans from its balance sheet. With special guests: Stephen Jones, chief executive of the banking association UK Finance and Rushanara Ali, Labour MP and member of the UK Treasury Select Committee.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Robert Armstrong, US financial editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss whether regulators are easing up on bank capital rules, tough times for UK peer-to-peer lenders, and why Goldman Sachs is planning to bring wealth management to the masses. With special guest Harald Benink, professor of banking and finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the pressure Barclays has come under to curb fossil fuel financing, a radical plan to overhaul regional banking in Japan, and the latest US bank results. With special guest Christian Wilson from ShareAction. 

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Robin Harding, Tokyo bureau chief, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon.  

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Most mosques shuttered and gatherings banned as Islamic world prepares for holy month

Islamic republic eases coronavirus restrictions in effort to boost struggling economy

Financial Action Task Force said Gulf state not doing enough to stem dirty financial flows

Elite university comes under fire for taking $9m in assistance while having a huge endowment

Over decades the Republican party has reconfigured itself into the party of the white and the South

Postmodernism defined itself against the stifling clarity and seriousness Modernism. It put style before drab functionality. It embraced pop culture and garish colour. But it got a bad rep. “PoMo” was called vacuous and kitsch, and in the 1980s it became associated with corporate culture and consumerism. Now this controversial cultural movement is the subject of a major exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990". Neville Hawcock talks to Glenn Adamson, co-curator of the show, and to FT columnists Edwin Heathcote and Peter Aspden. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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As King’s College, London, devotes an exhibition to its charismatic alumnus, the FT’s arts writer reflects on the artist and film-maker’s earliest inspirations  

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Greek culture taught the rest of us how to live ‑ and it’s not time to write off that particular debt yet, says Peter Aspden  

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Amy Walker on how a saccharine love song was transformed by Otis Redding into a provocative and impassioned soul classic. Credits: Baierle Records, Cool Note, 104pro Media, Daxa production, Digital Remasterings, ABKCO Music & Records Inc., Rhino Atlantic, Universal Island Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC/Shawn Carter  

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