In asset management, the race for scale is becoming urgent
Even with markets at record highs, the pressure to find new clients is mounting
More than 1,400 people missing after Nepal flood disaster
China warns of risk of further landslides as rescue effort intensifies
‘Headless software’ signals further AI-led shake-up
The SaaS-pocalypse might be easing but industry change is accelerating
US rebukes Europeans over ‘sea of red’ military gaps
‘We hope to see more from countries like the United Kingdom,’ says Pentagon policy chief
Polish Olympic chief arrested in spreading crypto scandal
Cryptocurrency platform’s collapse has reverberated through country’s politics after it sponsored rightwing events and media
Uefa prepares criminal complaint against Fifa’s Infantino
Governing body of European football seeking documents from Joshua Kushner’s investment firm
Canada poaches 48 US-based top academics
Trump administration’s assault on universities boosts Ottawa’s efforts to attract top research talent
Why 5% Treasuries aren’t crushing emerging markets
Owning EM bonds has not been so terrible in the past year
Visa and Mastercard launch Syria payments after US takes it off ‘terror’ list
President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government hails return of international card providers as sign of progress in reintegration with world economy
Six films to watch this week
Pedro Almodóvar celebrates a ‘Bitter Christmas’; Olivia Wilde shows her dominant side in ‘I Want Your Sex’; Jacob Elordi farms for survival in Ridley Scott’s ‘The Dog Stars’; Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder reboot a 1980s slasher in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’; Road Runner’s foe tak
Bitter Christmas — Almodóvar’s tangled tale of splitting headaches and self-reproach
A film-maker secretly mines the lives of those closest to him in this spiky slice of Spanish autofiction
I Want Your Sex — Olivia Wilde leads kinky comedy calling for Gen Z to get it on
The star is mischievously good as a lustful artist who seduces her young assistant in a return from 1990s indie darling Gregg Araki
Don’t draw the wrong conclusion from Treasury yields
Investors are marking up their expectations for long-run economic growth in the US
EU states revive plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine
Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain back plan to solve Kyiv’s latest funding crisis
Cyber attack on UK’s largest airport group exposes data of 8.7mn customers
Manchester Airports Group is latest British company to be hit by large-scale hack
Ratko Mladić dies in prison aged 84
Bosnian Serb commander was convicted for the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica
The Disappearers — Marlon James’s novel of righteous anger
The Booker Prize-winning author turns a planned theatre production in Jamaica into a compelling examination of homophobia, erasure and survival
Burnham’s high street plan is ‘delusional’, says Mike Ashley
Billionaire behind Frasers Group slams prime minister’s business rates proposals and crackdown on discounting
Minutes from ECB’s July meeting more positive on inflation outlook
Lack of second-round inflation effects will not stop central bank from raising interest rates again in September
Humanoid robots will be useful, just not as we imagined
Bipedal robots may look impressive doing tricks on YouTube, but the real value lies with their less flashy, highly functional industrial cousins
Flat owners win ‘right to manage’ case at UK Supreme Court
Lawyers say ruling strips freeholders of a powerful tool to derail resident-led takeovers
AI’s hacking capabilities are severely underestimated
It is now startlingly easy to put together a cheap and destructive cyber attack
Kevin Warsh’s peculiar challenge
Plus, Canadian fury at Donald Trump’s tariffs mounts
ECB will return to data dependence after a September rate rise
Read the August forecast from the FT’s Monetary Policy Radar team