When UniCredit bought 9 per cent of Commerzbank this month, the Italian bank’s chief executive Andrea Orcel sought to reassure Berlin of his intentions by saying cross-border deals in the industry could not happen against the will of governments.Outside its home market, any bank needed the “support from local institutions”,…

After years of favoring online and telephone scams, a number of crooks are drifting back to old-fashioned theft involving paper checks. In the last year, a number of individuals, including employees of the U.S. Postal Service, have been arrested or indicted for stealing paper tax refund checks. Over $3 million…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Israel launched a relentless wave of air strikes against what it said were Hizbollah targets on Monday, killing almost 300 people in Lebanon’s deadliest day for decades and pushing the region closer…

While Christians and Christianity have taken many often-justifiable hits over the past couple thousand years, the actual person of Christ has remained compelling, even irresistible, for most, including me. Having followed His story for many years, I confess I was surprised, then, to only recently learn the directive that Jesus…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a neo-Marxist outsider candidate, has won the Sri Lankan presidency, delivering the nation’s biggest political upset since independence from Britain and throwing fresh doubt on its fragile IMF-backed debt restructuring.After…

Careful research done by PhD economists conclude we face a huge retirement shortfall. We are about eight to nine years away from Social Security’s inability to pay full benefits; all boomers are past age 60, and the typical Gen Y and Millennial is predicted to do a little worse or…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Chipmaker Qualcomm approached its struggling rival Intel about a potential takeover in recent days, according to two people familiar with the matter. A deal is far from certain and no formal offer has…