US regulator plans to toughen customer protection on crypto accounts
US cryptocurrency companies should be responsible for refunding customers’ accounts when they are hacked, bringing standards for digital wallets into line with bank accounts, the consumer banking ...
Trump, Greenland and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine
The tabloid’s Wednesday front page showed Donald Trump pointing at a map of the western hemisphere with Canada as the “51st state”, the Gulf of Mexico renamed “Gulf of America”, the Panama Canal ...
Your new year pension tidy up could drag on until spring
For the 12 months to the end of September 2024 the average transfer time for a cash pension was 11.9 days, down from 14 days in January 2023 — though this is just the “ceding time”, the time taken by ...
‘Anybody can be a victim’: what do UK grooming gangs look like today?
Fewkes concedes that British-Pakistani men may be over-represented within gang grooming cases, but is concerned that too much focus on them may deter victims of crimes by other perpetrators from ...
‘We’ve feared this for years’: wildfires tear through Los Angeles
Patty Burns, a 93-year-old with a sparkling memory, has lived in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles for more than 60 years. She always kept a black suitcase filled with important ...
Constellation Energy to buy Calpine in $27bn deal
US power generation group Constellation Energy is to buy rival Calpine in a deal that values the target at just under $27bn, the companies announced on Friday. In a joint statement, the companies said ...
Lazarus Man — Richard Price’s slow-burn thriller has existential overtones
The crime writer’s latest novel features four disparate narratives centred around the collapse of an apartment block in ...
Devastation and subrogation
The linchpin of this law was a wildfire fund, with a targeted size of $18bn to $21bn, to help cover wildfire claims that ...
FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 724
FT.com also brings you the crossword from Monday to Saturday as well as the Weekend FT Polymath. ft.com/crossword FT.com also brings you the crossword from Monday to Saturday as well as the Weekend FT ...
Bahrain’s Pearling Path: a surprising, stunning gem of urban architecture
Bahrain’s Pearling Path is not quite like anything I’ve seen before. It is a landmark cultural project in the Gulf that ...
The international schools adding heat to the property map
Their global number has risen more than 50 per cent in a decade. With UK private education now subject to VAT, more parents ...
How California wildfires are hitting the state’s housing market
California is the US state most affected by wildfires as of 2023, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.