A costly investigation into the conduct of senior UK bankers during the financial crisis has raised questions about what it means to prosecute allegations of corporate crime, and whether Britain’s fraud laws need overhauling. With the FT’s Caroline Binham and Jane Croft.&nbsp; We want to hear from you. Please go to ft.com/behindthemoneysurvey and fill out our survey for a chance to win a pair of Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling headphones.&nbsp; Read more from Jane and Caroline here: Barclays: the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’ https://www.ft.com/content/f666b592-5a4b-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 (paywall) Review clip: Sky News For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

A costly investigation into the conduct of senior UK bankers during the financial crisis has raised questions about what it means to prosecute allegations of corporate crime, and whether Britain’s fraud laws need overhauling. With the FT’s Caroline Binham and Jane Croft.&nbsp; We want to hear from you. Please go to ft.com/behindthemoneysurvey and fill out our survey for a chance to win a pair of Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling headphones.&nbsp; Read more from Jane and Caroline here: Barclays: the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’ https://www.ft.com/content/f666b592-5a4b-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 (paywall) Review clip: Sky News For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Barclays and the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’

More than 10 years on from the early days of the US shale boom, bankruptcy risks are rising across the sector. The FT's US energy editor, Derek Brower, reports on what weak oil prices and tightening access to credit are doing to the outlook for some producers.&nbsp; Further reading: Bankruptcy risks rise for US shale (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/76c15898-52a2-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f US energy sector, shunned by investors, has ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/254bf634-5677-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 Chesapeake Energy raises doubt over its ability to survive (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/46ffa4fc-ffe6-11e9-be59-e49b2a136b8d The US shale revolution (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/2ded7416-e930-11e4-a71a-00144feab7de The clip of Aubrey McClendon is credited to the Switch Energy Alliance. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

More than 10 years on from the early days of the US shale boom, bankruptcy risks are rising across the sector. The FT's US energy editor, Derek Brower, reports on what weak oil prices and tightening access to credit are doing to the outlook for some producers.&nbsp; Further reading: Bankruptcy risks rise for US shale (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/76c15898-52a2-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f US energy sector, shunned by investors, has ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/254bf634-5677-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 Chesapeake Energy raises doubt over its ability to survive (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/46ffa4fc-ffe6-11e9-be59-e49b2a136b8d The US shale revolution (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/2ded7416-e930-11e4-a71a-00144feab7de The clip of Aubrey McClendon is credited to the Switch Energy Alliance. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Shale's looming credit crunch

Nearly one year after the grounding of Boeing's&nbsp;737&nbsp;Max jet, more than 700 of these planes remain on the ground, with costs to the US manufacturing giant estimated to reach nearly $20bn. The FT's Claire Bushey reports on how the crisis unfolded, and what it will take for the aerospace company to return business as usual. Further reading: Boeing tightens its belt as Max crisis drains cash (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/949eea64-3e44-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 Boeing faces Max hurdle as pilot confidence crumbles (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/2c0419cc-3983-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4 Aviation: Boeing parks its 737 aspirations (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/ad45dd3e-2314-11ea-92da-f0c92e957a96 Grounding a global fleet: Boeing faces its greatest challenge (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/53b2142a-4711-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3 For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Nearly one year after the grounding of Boeing's&nbsp;737&nbsp;Max jet, more than 700 of these planes remain on the ground, with costs to the US manufacturing giant estimated to reach nearly $20bn. The FT's Claire Bushey reports on how the crisis unfolded, and what it will take for the aerospace company to return business as usual. Further reading: Boeing tightens its belt as Max crisis drains cash (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/949eea64-3e44-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 Boeing faces Max hurdle as pilot confidence crumbles (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/2c0419cc-3983-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4 Aviation: Boeing parks its 737 aspirations (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/ad45dd3e-2314-11ea-92da-f0c92e957a96 Grounding a global fleet: Boeing faces its greatest challenge (paywall) https://www.ft.com/content/53b2142a-4711-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

How Boeing plans to return the Max to the skies

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Season 3 coming in 2020

Earlier this year, Facebook announced its digital currency project, Libra, to great fanfare. Just a few months later, the project has stalled amid pressure from regulators and lawmakers around the world. With the FT's Hannah Murphy and Kiran Stacey. Further reading: Where it all went wrong for Facebook’s Libra:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/6e29a1f0-ef1e-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195 Zuckerberg warns blocking Libra will be boon to China tech:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/28c600de-f5a1-11e9-9ef3-eca8fc8f2d65 Federal Reserve sets out regulatory challenges facing Facebook’s Libra:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/ef650f9a-f052-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195 For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Earlier this year, Facebook announced its digital currency project, Libra, to great fanfare. Just a few months later, the project has stalled amid pressure from regulators and lawmakers around the world. With the FT's Hannah Murphy and Kiran Stacey. Further reading: Where it all went wrong for Facebook’s Libra:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/6e29a1f0-ef1e-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195 Zuckerberg warns blocking Libra will be boon to China tech:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/28c600de-f5a1-11e9-9ef3-eca8fc8f2d65 Federal Reserve sets out regulatory challenges facing Facebook’s Libra:&nbsp;https://www.ft.com/content/ef650f9a-f052-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The state of the Libra project

A key short term lending market came under strain in September, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve's attempt to unwind post-financial crisis intervention may have gone too far. The FT's Joe Rennison explains what has been going on in the repo market.&nbsp; Further reading: How the Federal Reserve could fix the repo market: https://www.ft.com/content/33674380-e4f4-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc Fed wrestles with role of regulation in repo squeeze: https://www.ft.com/content/45a9c196-e231-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc New York Fed rejects Wall St criticism of response to repo turmoil: https://www.ft.com/content/c267a2f4-dd3e-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

A key short term lending market came under strain in September, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve's attempt to unwind post-financial crisis intervention may have gone too far. The FT's Joe Rennison explains what has been going on in the repo market.&nbsp; Further reading: How the Federal Reserve could fix the repo market: https://www.ft.com/content/33674380-e4f4-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc Fed wrestles with role of regulation in repo squeeze: https://www.ft.com/content/45a9c196-e231-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc New York Fed rejects Wall St criticism of response to repo turmoil: https://www.ft.com/content/c267a2f4-dd3e-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The repo market

WeWork was long considered one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2019. For SoftBank, WeWork’s biggest outside investor, the listing would be the moment it made a return on the nearly $11bn it poured into the shared-office provider. Now, as WeWork struggles to take the company public, the spotlight is on SoftBank’s Masa Son and his billion-dollar bets. Further FT reading: SoftBank investors brace for Vision Fund writedowns https://www.ft.com/content/ccdaa9c6-d60d-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 WeWork postpones IPO after chilly response from investors https://www.ft.com/content/b869bc42-d8d9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 WeWork: the ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market https://www.ft.com/content/0e426c90-8c45-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972 SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world https://www.ft.com/content/71ad7cda-6ef4-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914 Some of Aimee’s favourite FT reads: Warren Buffett: ‘I’m having more fun than any 88-year-old int he world’ https://www.ft.com/content/40b9b356-661e-11e9-a79d-04f350474d62 The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work https://www.ft.com/content/1e8293f4-a1db-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1 Finding my Armenia, a century after the genocide https://www.ft.com/content/2e2f38b0-e7a1-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3 How Purdue’s ‘one-two’ punch fuelled the market for opioids https://www.ft.com/content/8e64ec9c-b133-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c Angola 3 inmate: from solitary cell to centre of the community https://www.ft.com/content/72a0983a-9f7d-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946 For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

WeWork was long considered one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2019. For SoftBank, WeWork’s biggest outside investor, the listing would be the moment it made a return on the nearly $11bn it poured into the shared-office provider. Now, as WeWork struggles to take the company public, the spotlight is on SoftBank’s Masa Son and his billion-dollar bets. Further FT reading: SoftBank investors brace for Vision Fund writedowns https://www.ft.com/content/ccdaa9c6-d60d-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 WeWork postpones IPO after chilly response from investors https://www.ft.com/content/b869bc42-d8d9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 WeWork: the ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market https://www.ft.com/content/0e426c90-8c45-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972 SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world https://www.ft.com/content/71ad7cda-6ef4-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914 Some of Aimee’s favourite FT reads: Warren Buffett: ‘I’m having more fun than any 88-year-old int he world’ https://www.ft.com/content/40b9b356-661e-11e9-a79d-04f350474d62 The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work https://www.ft.com/content/1e8293f4-a1db-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1 Finding my Armenia, a century after the genocide https://www.ft.com/content/2e2f38b0-e7a1-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3 How Purdue’s ‘one-two’ punch fuelled the market for opioids https://www.ft.com/content/8e64ec9c-b133-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c Angola 3 inmate: from solitary cell to centre of the community https://www.ft.com/content/72a0983a-9f7d-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

SoftBank’s Masa Son under pressure

The purpose of the US corporation has evolved over time, from Henry Ford's mission to benefit the carmaker's employees to Milton Friedman's essay on shareholder primacy. The FT's US business editor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, reports on the latest thinking, this time from America's largest business lobby, the Business Roundtable.&nbsp; Read more on the idea of sustainable investing at ft.com/moralmoney For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

The purpose of the US corporation has evolved over time, from Henry Ford's mission to benefit the carmaker's employees to Milton Friedman's essay on shareholder primacy. The FT's US business editor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, reports on the latest thinking, this time from America's largest business lobby, the Business Roundtable.&nbsp; Read more on the idea of sustainable investing at ft.com/moralmoney For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Corporate America's new role

Investors poured $17bn into agricultural food and technology startups in 2018, fuelled by threats to the world's food supply, including climate change and a growing global population.&nbsp;We visit one such startup, Indigo Ag, which is working with farmers to trial its microbial products for healthier crops.&nbsp;Indigo Ag provides microbial seed treatments to farmers for free in exchange for data. The company also sells the seed treatments through its standard commercial model.&nbsp; With guests Emiko Terazono, FT commodities correspondent, Ben Riensche, owner and manager, Blue Diamond Farming Company and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder and chief innovation officer, Indigo Ag.&nbsp; Read more from Emiko on agricultural food and technology at FT.com: https://www.ft.com/content/ee6fb294-edc3-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57&nbsp;(paywall) For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Investors poured $17bn into agricultural food and technology startups in 2018, fuelled by threats to the world's food supply, including climate change and a growing global population.&nbsp;We visit one such startup, Indigo Ag, which is working with farmers to trial its microbial products for healthier crops.&nbsp;Indigo Ag provides microbial seed treatments to farmers for free in exchange for data. The company also sells the seed treatments through its standard commercial model.&nbsp; With guests Emiko Terazono, FT commodities correspondent, Ben Riensche, owner and manager, Blue Diamond Farming Company and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder and chief innovation officer, Indigo Ag.&nbsp; Read more from Emiko on agricultural food and technology at FT.com: https://www.ft.com/content/ee6fb294-edc3-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57&nbsp;(paywall) For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Disrupting Big Ag

Amid concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth, there is one industry telling a completely different story: luxury goods. Aimee goes to Paris to find out why. With guests Harriet Agnew, Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, and Robert Burke, chairman and chief executive of the consultancy Robert Burke Associates. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Amid concerns about a slowdown in global economic growth, there is one industry telling a completely different story: luxury goods. Aimee goes to Paris to find out why. With guests Harriet Agnew, Paris correspondent for the Financial Times, and Robert Burke, chairman and chief executive of the consultancy Robert Burke Associates. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Luxury's resilient market

About 10 years ago, two legendary private equity firms, Apollo Global Management and TPG, teamed up to carry out a leveraged buyout of one of the biggest and most iconic gaming companies, then known as Harrah’s. They financed the purchase by taking advantage of Harrah’s real estate. Now, an obscure regional casino group out of Reno, Nevada is set to scoop up what has become the Caesars Entertainment empire in a deal that is making use of a pretty similar kind of financing. The FT’s Sujeet Indap tells the story. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

About 10 years ago, two legendary private equity firms, Apollo Global Management and TPG, teamed up to carry out a leveraged buyout of one of the biggest and most iconic gaming companies, then known as Harrah’s. They financed the purchase by taking advantage of Harrah’s real estate. Now, an obscure regional casino group out of Reno, Nevada is set to scoop up what has become the Caesars Entertainment empire in a deal that is making use of a pretty similar kind of financing. The FT’s Sujeet Indap tells the story. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Paying for the Caesars empire

When Fiat Chrysler Automobiles withdrew its proposal for a&nbsp;€33bn merger with France’s Renault it reversed plans to create what could have been the world's third-largest carmaker. The FT's David Keohane, Leo Lewis and Rachel Sanderson tell the story of how the bid came together, how it eventually fell apart and what it means for the future of global carmakers.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

When Fiat Chrysler Automobiles withdrew its proposal for a&nbsp;€33bn merger with France’s Renault it reversed plans to create what could have been the world's third-largest carmaker. The FT's David Keohane, Leo Lewis and Rachel Sanderson tell the story of how the bid came together, how it eventually fell apart and what it means for the future of global carmakers.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Renault, Nissan and Fiat Chrysler's quest for a deal

Over the past 54 years, shares in Berkshire Hathaway have outpaced the broader market. But now the conglomerate is holding onto more than $100bn in cash that it would rather be investing. The FT's Eric Platt guides us through the Berkshire Hathaway operation, and how its 88-year old chairman and chief executive is thinking about the company's future. Read more at FT.com.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Over the past 54 years, shares in Berkshire Hathaway have outpaced the broader market. But now the conglomerate is holding onto more than $100bn in cash that it would rather be investing. The FT's Eric Platt guides us through the Berkshire Hathaway operation, and how its 88-year old chairman and chief executive is thinking about the company's future. Read more at FT.com.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Warren Buffett's cash dilemma

What it means for a generation of tech companies with huge valuations to be making the shift&nbsp;to the public markets, and why some are doing it by unconventional means.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

What it means for a generation of tech companies with huge valuations to be making the shift&nbsp;to the public markets, and why some are doing it by unconventional means.&nbsp; For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The unicorn IPO

How did Denmark’s Danske Bank find itself at the centre of one of the largest money-laundering scandals the world has ever seen? The FT’s Richard Milne explains. This episode was originally published on October 30, 2018. Read the latest on the Nordic money-laundering scandal at&nbsp;FT.com. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

How did Denmark’s Danske Bank find itself at the centre of one of the largest money-laundering scandals the world has ever seen? The FT’s Richard Milne explains. This episode was originally published on October 30, 2018. Read the latest on the Nordic money-laundering scandal at&nbsp;FT.com. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Encore: how €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank

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