Financial Times News Feed

European Commission issues formal warning that Rome’s measures to deter takeovers risk compromising single market

FCA says ‘streamlining’ of requirements to report transactions will save companies more than £108mn a year

Can we really build better mousetraps?

Magic Circle legal firm also shifts work to lower-cost hubs in Poland and India

Head of the Wall Street lender’s US retail bank will become its chief financial officer in March

Deal to sell events complex would mark latest exit by US private equity firm from UK leisure industry

Lisa Cook says growing prevalence of so-called basis trades makes markets ‘more vulnerable to stress’

Private capital firm has cancelled a planned merger between two affiliates that lend to middle-market companies

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Plus, the mega-deal rippling through Wall Street, Hollywood and Washington, and pharma groups stressing buyout firms

Increased capital target and €1.15bn share buyback plan comes after setbacks from US litigation

Lendlease and Canada’s biggest pension fund consider offloading 900 apartments at Elephant Park development

Deteriorating, Bob!

Xi Jinping’s government is seeking to create bigger financial players

There is a cost to bank chair Colm Kelleher’s portentous musing about relocation

Supreme Court backs previous judgment that prosecutors lack evidence in high-profile case targeting upscale developments

New disclosures on the cost of UK state pension protection highlight inadequate retirement saving

Working mothers are offered high salaries and more flexibility, but women still face wide pay gap and glass ceiling

Shares in company backed by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger waver after scaled-back IPO

Insurance marketplace calls in lawyers to probe potential failings days after collapse of John Neal’s appointment to AIG

FCA says ‘consolidated tape’ for equities will bring benefits worth £100mn over next decade

Move had risked inflicting losses of 20% on investors in one of the vehicles

Rothschild to advise Primary Health Properties on offloading portfolio of hospitals

Simplified dual listing designed to stem flow of city-state’s fastest growing companies going overseas to list

Drop comes ahead of expected tax raid on high-value properties in Budget