Smurfit Kappa in $20bn merger talks with WestRock
Europe’s biggest packaging company says it would cancel London listing and shift to US should deal complete
Mergers & Acquisitions
Banks and investors step up opposition to EU derivatives plans
Trade bodies call on bloc to scrap initiative to move clearing deals out of London
Financial & markets regulation
Amundi increases sustainable investments levels on 46 ETFs
Some funds managed by Europe’s largest listed asset manager will rise from 1% to 35%
Financial & markets regulation
WeWork, too big to fail
Plus, private funds sue the SEC
Financial & markets regulation
Former Google AI expert raises $100mn for biotech start-up
Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’
Artificial intelligence
The era of cheap offshore wind is over in the UK
Industry says projects are less viable because costs have rocketed but the price they receive for electricity has not
Renewable energy
Norway’s oil fund is sending a message to companies on AI
Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology
Artificial intelligence
The $100tn path to net zero
In the absence of a global carbon tax, the green transition could prove politically expensive
Renewable energy
Japan’s ispace: the unruly start-up that shot for the Moon and missed
The FT delves into the events that led to the crash of the Hakuto-R lander in April and uncovers a corporate culture described by some as ‘toxic’
Space industry
The media litigator getting into the PR game
Plus, the Saudi Arabian telecoms group betting on Europe and the turbulent departure of Qantas chief Alan Joyce
Mergers & Acquisitions