FT News in Focus

By Financial Times

News features and analysis from Financial Times reporters around the world. FT News in Focus is produced by Fiona Symon.

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February 28, 2018 The mystery of Deutsche Bank’s largest shareholder
China’s HNA Group is Deutsche Bank's biggest shareholder. But as the Financial Times discovered, very little is known about the structure of HNA or its owners. Patrick Jenkins discusses what this means for the German lender and its investors with the FT's Robert Smith and Laura Noonan.
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February 27, 2018 Comcast disrupts Fox Disney deal with bid for UK broadcaster Sky
US cable operator Comcast's bid for Sky threatens Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the UK broadcaster as well as his plans to sell all of 21st Century Fox — except his rightwing US news channel and primary sports network — to Walt Disney. Naomi Rovnick unravels the details of the rival bids and what they signify for the global media industry in conversation with the FT's Matt Garrahan and Arash Massoudi
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February 26, 2018 Students take the lead in US gun control debate
A group of teenagers who survived a US school shooting have taken command of the national debate over gun control, one of the most contentious issues in American life. But will their efforts have an effect on legislation? Shannon Bond discusses.
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February 23, 2018 China acts as peacemaker in Pakistan's Balochistan
China is wooing tribal separatists in Pakistan's Balochistan province in order to secure key trade projects in the region. Jyotsna Singh discusses how Beijing's One Belt One Road initiative is forcing it to adopt a more interventionist foreign policy with the FT's Farhan Bokhari, Kiran Stacey and James Kynge.
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February 21, 2018 Latvia's banking crisis
US officials have accused Latvia’s third-largest bank of laundering money that helped fund North Korea’s missile programme. To make matters worse, the country’s central bank governor is the subject of a bribery probe. Elaine Moore discusses what’s behind the banking crisis in the Baltic state and why the European Central Bank failed to spot the problem with Claire Jones, Martin Sandbu and Neil Buckley.
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February 20, 2018 Punjab National Bank hit by $1.8bn fraud
A group of businessmen, acting with the connivance of staff at a Mumbai branch, obtained nearly $2bn in trade loans without going through proper approval processes, Mumbai reporter Simon Mundy tells Patrick Jenkins, the FT's financial editor.
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February 19, 2018 Rebuilding Puerto Rico
It's been five months since Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, devastating an island whose economy was already struggling under an untenable $120bn of debt and pension obligations. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, governor of Puerto Rico, joins the FT's Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson to discuss the state of the recovery.
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February 16, 2018 The news site that keeps Egypt's media freedom alive
Mada Masr, an online newspaper, is one of the few Egyptian media outlets that dares to challenge the status quo amid the repressive political climate that has taken hold since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2013. Heba Saleh spoke to chief editor and founder of the news site Lina Attala at the news site's offices in Cairo.

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February 15, 2018 India's passion for books
India's thriving books market has spawned scores of literature festivals across India’s big and small cities where multiple events are held throughout the year. Jyotsna Singh discusses what's behind India's love of books with the FT's Victor Mallet and Nilanjana Roy.
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February 14, 2018 Norway fund takes lead on executive pay
Why did Norway's oil fund vote against pay proposals at Alphabet, JPMorgan and Volkswagen last year? Attracta Mooney discusses moves by the influential investor to try to rein in pay packages regarded as over generous or overly complex with Richard Milne, the FT’s Nordics correspondent, and Jonathan Guthrie from the FT’s Lex team.
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The podcast currently has 1,706 episodes available.