Japan and Sustainability
Ammonia pushed as low-carbon fuel. Battery supply recycling challenge. Incinerators mask policy flaws. Fish stocks worry spurs quest for fake taste. Data analytics ease care home workload. Rice-based plastics and snow coolants aid climate goal effort
Renewable energy
Tesla delivers record number of cars as price cut pays off for Musk
Electric vehicle maker beats targets after identifying affordability as barrier to sales
Electric vehicles
Barclays seeks to end relationship as Odey Asset Management’s corporate bank
Group wants to distance itself from hedge fund after sexual misconduct allegations against founder
Financial & markets regulation
Miner ACG to raise $300mn in test of London’s capital markets
Spac seeks to buy mines in Brazil in deal backed by Glencore, Stellantis and Volkswagen
Mergers & Acquisitions, Electric vehicles
Ireland and Luxembourg step up calls for tougher shadow banking rules
Top EU fund centres want a comprehensive global approach to reining in a sector that increasingly dominates finance
Financial & markets regulation
US private equity faces extra scrutiny under new merger review rules
Antitrust agencies’ overhaul adds to growing checks on sector and will delay deals, say lawyers
Mergers & Acquisitions
Musk ignites backlash with move to limit number of Twitter posts users can view
Owner of social media company says step was taken to address ‘scraping’ of data on platform
Social Media
Western-trained banker in line to lead China’s central bank
Cambridge and StanChart alum will take over a weakened PBoC
Central banks
How actors are losing their voices to AI
Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
Artificial intelligence
Tom Montag, the Wall Street veteran who is back at Goldman Sachs
Boardroom appointment marks return to a bank markedly different from the one he left
Investment Banking