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From hostile takeovers to C-suite intrigue, Behind The Money takes you inside the big business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from Financial Times journalists around the...

Long before modern economics, rulers such as Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia grappled with a political problem that still haunts our econom...

Does scientific, artistic or political brilliance translate into investing success? It’s a topical question with hedge funds today accused o...

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped that “there can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as...

For our final episode: Education start-up Byju’s quickly became the pride of India during the Covid-19 pandemic. But almost as fast as the c...

After years of fast-paced growth, private credit is facing intense scrutiny. In recent months, investors have made requests to withdraw bill...

This week, we are revisiting a favorite episode. The natural diamond industry is facing an existential threat: lab-grown diamonds. They are...

Introducing Opus Dei , a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Antonia Cundy uncovers the cultural and political influence of...

US President Donald Trump handed crypto companies a huge win last year when he signed a piece of legislation to regulate an important part o...

Behind the Money has been nominated for an NYC Podcast Award in the Best Interview Podcast category. It’s an Audience Choice award, which me...

This week Michela and the FT’s US banking editor, Joshua Franklin, interview the co-creators of the hit television show, Industry . In its f...

Raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have made national headlines. But behind ICE’s operations, a sprawling web of private co...

Partners Group pursued an innovative approach to private equity: The firm built a business serving a market of individual investors. Now, a...

When the hedge fund Elliott Management pursued the acquisition of the oil refinery business Citgo a few years ago, the deal was already a co...

US President Donald Trump on Friday made his pick to lead the Federal Reserve: Kevin Warsh. The former central bank governor with ties to Wa...

For more than 170 years, Wells Fargo built a reputation as an all-American Main Street lender. Now, it is charting a new path and pushing in...

Saks Global, the parent company of the historic luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protecti...

Every January a collection of the world’s top business and political leaders head to the Swiss town of Davos for the annual meeting of the W...

From the artificial intelligence bubble to trade policy, Michela asks Martin Wolf, the FT's chief economics commentator, how the biggest sto...

The surge in scams, phishing attacks and digital fraud is raising serious liability questions. So who should be doing more? In this live rec...

Economists like to model people as rational creatures who make self-interested decisions. But humans don’t act that way. Why do investors, p...

Despite its relatively low profile, Fidelity Investments is a sprawling beast when it comes to financial services. Last year, the firm’s rev...

In the UK, whistleblowers are encouraged to report wrongdoing, but often at cost to their livelihoods and careers. One solution would be to...

In this special episode of Behind the Money, the FT’s senior business writer Andrew Hill interviews author Stephen Witt about his book The T...

For years, corporate whistleblowers in the UK have found themselves in an unenviable predicament. They’re encouraged to report wrongdoing, b...

For years, corporate whistleblowers in the UK have found themselves in an unenviable predicament. They’re encouraged to report wrongdoing, b...

This week we’re sharing an episode from Business History, a podcast from Pushkin Industries. Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and R...

When international private equity groups first entered Japan at the turn of the 21st century, newspapers criticised them as vulture funds an...

Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive treatments, therapies, and even manipulating...

OpenAI is entering a new era. It's restructured to add a for-profit arm to its business and has signed more than a trillion dollars’ worth o...

Pharma juggernauts Pfizer and Novo Nordisk are struggling in the obesity drug race.The two companies are searching for their next moneymaker...

Publicly-listed Oklo sits at the intersection of two hot areas for Wall Street: artificial intelligence and energy companies. This year alon...

Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions are reeling after the collapse of a little-known car parts supplier: First Brands Group....

The world’s largest listed hedge fund manager, Man Group, is at a crossroads. After years of high flying thanks to its innovative quant trad...

Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the U...

From KitKat candy bars to Perrier mineral water, Nestlé owns thousands of brands. But recently the world’s largest food and beverage company...

In recent weeks, satellite business EchoStar has clinched multibillion-dollar deals with SpaceX and AT&T. It may sound like boom times for f...

US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars...

India’s tech hub Bangalore has experienced huge growth of companies and employees in the past two decades. But the city’s infrastructure is...

Behind the Money has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Money & Finance category! It's a Listener Choice award, which means we need yo...

The recent collapse of Tricolor Holdings, a subprime auto lender in Texas, has left a trail of losses and questions from Wall Street to low-...

Ecommerce start-up Jumia was supposed to become the “Amazon of Africa”. Its prospects seemed promising after raising close to $800mn prior t...

The natural diamond industry is facing an existential threat: lab-grown diamonds. They’re chemically and physically identical to natural sto...

Earlier this summer, energy supermajor Chevron secured access to one of the most valuable oilfields in the world. It was the culmination of...

AI music generators - platforms that use artificial intelligence to create new, original music from scratch - can make songs that are almost...

This week we're sharing an episode from, Unhedged, another podcast from the FT network. The annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hol...

Palantir shares have soared this year, making the data analytics company one of the most valuable listed US tech groups. The FT’s Tabby Kind...

This is a revised version of an earlier episode and clarifies the position of Zyn in the US market. As the popularity of cigarettes has slid...

Two summers ago, hedge fund manager Bobby Jain set out with a huge goal: build a hedge fund that can rival the likes of industry giants Cita...

This week we’re sharing an episode from Fixable, a podcast from TED. In it, hear about the resurrection of Barnes & Noble. Chief revival arc...

The competition for junior talent between private equity and Wall Street banks reached a new peak this summer. That’s thanks to a controvers...