Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As kick-off time approached the crowd for David Cameron was smaller than Sarkozy’s, but Our Man didn’t empty ...

As Tony Bates, CEO of Genesys, took the stage at Genesys Xperience 2025, I was reminded of the French phrase je ne sais quoi (literally, “I don’t know what”), often used to describe that special, hard ...

This is probably as good as it gets, for now. Third-quarter results from BNP Paribas were predictably solid, prompting a pop in its share price. But a sharp reduction in bad loan provisions did much ...