The US has approved Capital One’s $35.5bn takeover of Discover Financial in a deal that will merge two of America’s largest credit card lenders and marks one of the largest banking mergers since the ...

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A lack of audible protest against Trump’s tariff chaos is one of the biggest failures of leadership in corporate history ...

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If any institution is equipped to stand up to the Trump administration it is Harvard, given its $53bn endowment, establishment clout and in-house legal brainpower. The presidents of Princeton and ...

“The confounding part of Mark’s testimony is that he’s trying to contradict statements today that he made a decade ago as these acquisitions were being contemplated in real time,” said Lee Hepner, ...

Lang Lang’s reputation is as a showman, but the programmes that he chooses for his recitals do not bear that out. During the pandemic he focused on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, as weighty a challenge ...

Canada’s Mark Carney has picked up the gauntlet. Britain’s Keir Starmer prefers to look the other way. Japan and South Korea ...

The former Goldman Sachs banker on the impact of US tariffs, and his role in structuring Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan ...

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Artificial intelligence is poised to outperform humans in writing code as leading groups, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, race to release systems that are reshaping the software industry. San ...

The FT columnist told herself she wouldn’t bow to custom when it came to her dress. What changed her mind?