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Luckin Coffee investigated by top Chinese regulator

Concern in Beijing that accounting scandal could damage other overseas listings




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Largest US meat company warns food supply chain is breaking

Tyson chairman flags shortages as slaughterhouses and processing plants are forced to shut




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PepsiCo’s food and drink combo serves it well in lockdown snacking surge

Sales rise but company warns revenues will decline as bar and restaurant closures hit beverages




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Illycaffè expects coronavirus hit to revenues despite online boost

Lockdowns and restrictions set to halt Italian coffee maker’s 17-year growth trajectory




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Locked-down consumers turn back to processed foods

Kellogg and Kraft Heinz see chance to win back customers who had shifted to healthier brands




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US meat inspectors given new role looking after people

Agency overseeing slaughterhouse reopenings has previously said worker safety is not its job




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John Tyson laments breakdown of meat system his family pioneered

Tyson Foods chief warns of supply shortages that critics blame on concentrated production line




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Opposition rises to exit package for ex-McDonald’s chief

Steve Easterbrook lost his job after relationship with colleague but kept stock options




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Tyson Foods warns of sales declines and rising costs

Largest US meat company forecasts further upheaval in months ahead




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Beyond Meat’s profit-driven pricing power

Even without scale, the fake meat industry is challenging the economics of its blood and guts rivals.




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UBS's 'Swinegate', Deutsche's bad bank and Facebook's digital currency

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss UBS's cultural faux pas in China, Deutsche Bank's plan to set up a 'bad bank' and Facebook's bid to shake up the payments world. With special guest Jan Kvarnström, bank restructuring expert.  


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Don Weinland, Beijing financial correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent and Elaine Moore, deputy head of Lex. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Lloyds' offshore banking problem, Facebook's Libra and US stress tests

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Lloyds Bank and its offshore banking problems, the latest on the regulatory tests facing Facebook's Libra initiative, and how banks have fared in this year's US Fed stress tests.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Hannah Murphy, technology correspondent, and Kiran Stacey, US regulatory correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon


 

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UK PPI scandal, Goldman moves and Eurofi lobbying

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the huge cost of the UK's PPI mis-selling scandal, the latest personnel changes at Goldman Sachs and growing unease about the role of Eurofi in shaping Europe's financial sector policy. With special guest Dominic Lindley, director of policy at the New City Agenda.


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

 

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Facebook's Libra, UK digital banks and JPMorgan metals traders charged

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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RBS's new chief, Swiss hiring spat and who advised WeWork?

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss RBS as Alison Rose, the first woman to lead one of the UK’s top banks, takes the helm, Iqbal Khan and the hiring spat between Credit Suisse and UBS, and the role of US investment banks in the failed WeWork IPO. With special guest John Cronin of Goodbody stockbrokers in Dublin.


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

 

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Credit Suisse scandal, Wells Fargo's new chief and ECB interest rate policy

David Crow and guests discuss the scandal that has engulfed Credit Suisse, including the apparent suicide of a security consultant involved in a corporate espionage operation for the bank, US bank Wells Fargo's new chief executive, and the merits of the European Central Bank's interest rate policy. With special guest Jean Pierre Mustier, president of the European Banking Federation and chief executive of Italian bank UniCredit.


Contributors: David Crow, Banking editor, Sam Jones, correspondent in Zurich, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Patrick Jenkins, financial editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Barclays trial, climate initiative and Fed regulatory reprieve

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the retrial of former Barclays bankers over the bank's arrangements with Qatar at the height of the financial crisis, the poor level of support among banks for a climate change initiative backed by Bank of England governor Mark Carney, and the Fed's decision to drop the introduction of tougher liquidity rules for foreign banks. With special guest, Erkin Nosinov, a director at BCS Consulting.


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

 

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StanChart pay row, Citigroup on Brexit and Facebook's Libra

David Crow and guests discuss Standard Chartered chief Bill Winters' 'voluntary' pay cut after a dispute over his pension allowance, Citigroup's confidence in the City of London regardless of the outcome of Brexit, and gathering clouds for Facebook's much hyped digital currency, Libra. With special guest David Livingstone, chief executive of Citigroup in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


Contributors: David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Payment fraud, DBank leadership and JPMorgan loans

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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Google eyes Citigroup for new banking venture

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Google's move towards banking that could see it team up with Citigroup, why Australia's big four are facing difficult times and what's in the report on TSB's software failure last year. With special guest Masha Cilliers, Specialist Payments Partner at Be.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Tim Bradshaw, global tech correspondent, Robert Armstrong, chief editorial writer, Jamie Smyth, Australia correspondent and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producers: Persis Love and Aimee Keane.

 

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Outlook for German banks

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the health of German banks in the wake of bearish comments from Moody's and the Bundesbank, Unicredit's potential share buyback and why European banks appear to be retrenching in the US. With special guest Magdalena Stoklosa head of European banks research at Morgan Stanley.


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

 

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Bank capital rules, peer-to-peer lenders and Goldman for the masses

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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UK stress tests, racism at JPMorgan and predictions for 2020

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss what the latest stress tests tell us about the health of UK banks, racism in US banking after recent revelations about the treatment of black customers at JPMorgan Chase, and predictions for the year ahead. With special guest Laurie Mayers, associate managing director at Moody's.


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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Barclays under fire on climate

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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Davos News, Bank of America outlook and JPMorgan's shift towards Paris

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the latest from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the outlook for Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase's decision to buy a second office in Paris. With special guest Brian Moynihan, chief executive of Bank of America. 


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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European banks' game of thrones

Matthew Vincent and colleagues discuss the hunt for new chief executives among Europe's top banks and JPMorgan's plans to launch a digital bank in the UK. With special guest Sir Mike Rake, former CBI president, and former deputy chairman of Barclays.


Contributors: Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking editor, and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Introducing Behind the Money: Barclays and the legal fight over a 'controlling mind'

Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.


A costly investigation into the conduct of senior Barclays bankers during the 2008 financial crisis has raised questions about what it means to prosecute allegations of corporate crime, and whether Britain’s fraud laws need overhauling. The FT's Caroline Binham and Jane Croft report.

 

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Behind the Money: Ford, GM and the corporate dash for cash

Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.


When credit markets seized up earlier in March, more than 130 companies rushed to their lenders to draw down at least $124bn of emergency credit lines to shore up cash, with Ford and General Motors drawing among the largest amounts. We look at how the auto industry is preparing for the economic uncertainty that lies ahead. With the FT's Peter Campbell and Gillian Tett.

 

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Iraq warns over threat to public sector pay from oil price collapse

Prime minister designate says government could be unable to pay half of the salaries of 3m-strong workforce next month




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Expats in Dubai call for cut in their children’s school fees

Struggling parents demand help as work dries up due to coronavirus crisis




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Yemen ceasefire announced by Saudi-led coalition

Move in response to UN call to focus on preventing Covid-19 outbreak in war-torn country




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Libyans suffer water and gas shortages as they confront Covid-19 

Worsening conditions in the capital increase threat posed by the virus




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Coronavirus deepens frustrations of young in Middle East

Pandemic stopped protests in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon, but crisis likely to fuel fresh wave of unrest




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UAE risks inclusion on financial watch list over money laundering

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




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Letter from Beirut: amid the protests, dreams of the dance floor

Nightlife, resilient to war and terrorism, has been paralysed by coronavirus




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Egyptian opposition calls for probe into death of film-maker

Shady Habash died in prison aged 22 and had been held without trial for two years




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Billionaire vs president — Assad family dispute grips Syria

Rami Makhlouf’s complaints against his cousin show strains in power structure




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Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi reformer, 1951-2020

An activist who dug his own course in pursuit of reform




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Tech consultants join Gulf’s fight against Covid-19

Demand for tech services expected partly to counter pandemic downturn




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Mary Portas: The cull of retail businesses spells the end for mediocre malls

Too many big brands have been coasting for too long




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How much cuff should a man show?

Watching non-stop news has driven Nick Foulkes to distraction: what’s going on with everyone’s wrists?




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For fashion labels launched during the pandemic, what now?

In fashion, timing is everything. When coronavirus turned the world upside down, these new brands had to pivot quickly to survive




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Canada Goose to end use of virgin fur

Parka brand has no plans to change policy on down and says it is not bowing to pressure




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Keep the blazer, lose the tie: the new rules of home workwear

Stylists advise on how to look professional when working remotely. Join a live discussion on Friday April 24 at noon and 5pm




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My favourite dress is everywhere. Should I care?

Helen Barrett discovered the perfect ‘austere but dramatic’ dress from The Vampire’s Wife. Then came the celebrities




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The pitfalls of dressing for ‘virtual parliament’

The suits, the soft furnishings: a revealing glimpse of our MPs’ style choices




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Fashion writers’ recommendations for lockdown reading

Books that give creative inspiration and comfort during isolation




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No mean feet: socks to lift your spirits

A colourful pair can elevate an outfit out of the style doldrums




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Prada’s Raf Simons on his upholstery sideline

Why one of the biggest names in fashion also designs furniture textiles




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Trump’s support rallies around his flag in the Midwest

Republicans continue to give the US president high marks for his handling of coronavirus