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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments received by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Battered government bonds rebound as oil falls below $100
Brent crude sinks amid speculation Donald Trump could meet Iranian president this week, lifting French and Italian debt
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Trump and Xi are the wrong men at the wrong time
The world needs far-sighted leadership but the US and Chinese leaders are unlikely to provide it
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Trump presses Zelenskyy to stop hitting Russian refineries
US president tells Ukrainian leader in phone call it is all about ‘diesel, diesel, diesel’, according to officials
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Why the world’s hottest stock market is a national liability
South Korea’s wild stock price swings are hurting the country’s image
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The cartel civil war tearing apart a Mexican state
The Sinaloa cartel erupted into conflict in 2024 when the son of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán kidnapped his father’s co-founder and handed him to US authorities
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Lex in depth: the challenging maths of Anthropic’s IPO
There are several ways to crack the valuation nut. Some suggest the company may be worth far more
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Nik Storonsky’s plan for Revolut: a global bank with ‘effectively zero risk’
Russian-born founder and CEO talks to the FT about building Europe’s most valuable start-up
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Germany’s Merz stands his ground but for how long?
Lessons from elsewhere in Europe suggest once leaders become deeply unpopular, they almost never recover
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German chancellor Merz vows to stay on despite ‘disaster’ in regional elections
Partial results show CDU just above the 5 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern