Padel power: players and investors flock to tennis’s upstart rival
Social sport enjoys boom as investors rush to open clubs and professional contests vie for prominence
Travel & leisure industry
Booking offers concessions to EU in bid to clinch €1.6bn Etraveli deal
Amsterdam-based online travel group seeks to overcome competition concerns around purchase of Swedish flights site
Travel & leisure industry, Mergers & Acquisitions
Turkey shakes up central bank as part of shift to mainstream approach
Three deputy governors recruited to work alongside recently appointed bank chief Hafize Gaye Erkan
Central banks
British Airways owner IAG and Air France-KLM report record profits
Airline earnings boosted by soaring demand for travel, higher fares and continued recovery from Covid-19 crisis
Travel & leisure industry
Stricter rules for US banks
European Central Bank raises interest rates back to record high
Social Media, Financial & markets regulation
Everyone loses if net zero becomes the new partisan divide
Cross-party support for green policies provided one of Britain’s few recent success stories, but this progress is now under threat
Renewable energy
Brussels plans ‘foreign influence’ clampdown on lobbying groups
Draft proposals would require NGOs and lawyers to disclose big contracts with non-EU states
Financial & markets regulation
Backgammon’s AI super-brain is for sale
The creator of the swashbuckling software known as ‘XG’ has left an indelible mark on the game. Now he has had enough
Artificial intelligence
Central banks leave investors in the dark as they near peak rates
ECB and Fed shift rhetoric in favour of more ambiguity with inflationary pressures waning
Central banks
Elon Musk and Barbie show just how intangible a brand can be
In an era when trademarks increasingly drive corporate growth we cannot agree on what they are worth
Social Media