Alex Ralph
@alexralph
Chief Business Correspondent @TheTimes Tip-offs to [email protected]
Interview with Tom Hayes, who has won his decade-long fight to overturn his Libor rigging conviction: he says he forgives the judge who misdirected the jury and undermined the fairness of his trial; he's also considering suing former employer UBS thetimes.com/uk/law/article…
AstraZeneca plans to invest $50 billion (£37 billion) in the United States in manufacturing and research and development by the end of the decade thetimes.com/business-money…
Thousands of investors are owed more than £200 million by 79th Group, the collapsed investment scheme, whose board included a former senior HM Revenue & Customs official From @jameshurley thetimes.com/article/f228db…
🔺 Exclusive: Exclusive: Andrew Bailey has hit out at Donald’s Trump’s pro-crypto legislation, warning that stablecoins pose threats to financial stability thetimes.com/business-money…
Andrew Bailey warns banks against issuing their own stablecoins in interview with @thetimes @MehreenKhn and @__JackBarnett thetimes.com/article/4935c4…
The bosses of some of the UK’s biggest listed companies have called for the removal of stamp duty on shares and greater freedoms on boardroom pay as part of a wide-ranging revamp to revitalise London’s equity markets Report on the @CBItweets proposals: thetimes.com/article/72eda7…
Administrators of the alleged Fortress Capital Partners “Ponzi scheme” have described a second insolvency proposal to take control of the unregulated investment firm as “highly speculative” Latest story on the celebrity-backed scheme with @jameshurley thetimes.com/business-money…
The long-serving chief executive of AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, would like to move the stock market listing to the United States, according to multiple sources thetimes.com/business-money…
Kebab king’s SME outfit ‘lobbies for big tobacco’ Weekend read on SME4Labour's extraordinary hotline granting businesses access to Labour’s top table and how clients include Imperial Brands With @jameshurley thetimes.com/business-money…
A capital markets union would solve a "lot of problems", by providing scale, Lionel Assant, global co-chief investment officer at Blackstone, tells the #TimesCEOSummit as he endorses Mario Draghi's ambitious proposal
The UK in "general is fairly valued", Lionel Assant, co-chief investment officer at Blackstone, tells #TimesCEOSummit to the suggestion that assets are undervalued
President Trump has likely “already taken the decision” to hit Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, Sir Niall Ferguson tells @FraserNelson at the #TimesCEOSummit. “My Israeli sources and some of my sources in Washington think it happens tonight.”
Thames Water is an "exceptionally complex situation", Tara Davies, co-head of European infrastructure at KKR, tells the #TimesCEOSummit as she explains why it pulled out of acquiring the troubled water company
Lord Clanwilliam, the former chairman of the audit committee of NMC Health, reached a settlement agreement with the administrators of the collapsed former FTSE 100 company, including to provide evidence relating to its £2bn High Court claim against EY thetimes.com/business-money…
AstraZeneca has been accused of “turning a blind eye” to the Chinese government and putting “profits before people” as it invests billions in the country amid the long-running detention of a key executive thetimes.com/business-money…
The European Central Bank is likely to cut interest rates for the eighth time in a year - follow live thetimes.com/business-money…
Markets have shrugged off the US’s doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminium in overnight trading in Asia -Follow our business live blog for all the latest updates: thetimes.com/business-money…