Patrick Jenkins

FT reporters talk to the European Central Bank president

British lenders face a competitive threat from Trump’s plans for regulatory bonfires

The answer may depend on the likes of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump

Prudential regulators should be monitoring both personal and systemic risks

A rapid expansion in finance is coming together in an excitable cocktail of risk and opportunity

Policymakers and police must work together on prevention while individuals should take more responsibility

Next spring’s expected UK pensions bill would be a good opportunity to boost auto-enrolment contributions

It is a politically smart bit of heartstring-tugging. Labour’s manifesto pledged that it would pay for 8,500 new mental health workers and other good causes by tightening the tax rules for wealthy private equity executives. Uncontroversial for most voters. But within this vast industry, huge efforts are being made to persuade the UK’s new chancellor Rachel Reeves to water down her plans to generate an extra £565mn from closing the “carried interest tax loophole”. Reeves has two arguments in fa…

If “a week is a long time in politics”, as Harold Wilson, one of Keir Starmer’s few predecessors as Labour prime minister, quipped half a century ago, then a year in banking is certainly a very long time. Just 12 months ago commentators were writing admiringly of the financial services build-up that Paris had achieved at London’s expense. It was hailed as a golden period for the French capital, as President Emmanuel Macron and his finance minister Bruno Le Maire succeeded in their strategic pit…

The extended transaction timetable may actually be the bidder’s greatest ally