…The brothers also borrowed from Bank of America to buy the planes, using the interest-free loans from their petrol station company to fund at least some of the remaining cost, the people said….

…Average annualised volatility for bitcoin is now the lowest since October 2020, according to analytics platform CryptoCompare….

…The otherwise fairly technical conversation your columnist Edward Luce had with Mark Carney (Lunch with the FT, October 15) yielded one revelation about the former Bank of England governor’s views on religion…

…and is now so enmeshed with the outside world through trade and finance that “going hot” over Taiwan would surely be disastrous. It would multiply…

…Many banks raced to offer financing, as they attempted to solidify their relationship with one of the world’s wealthiest individuals….

…Japan announced a Y29.1tn ($197bn) stimulus to ease the impact of soaring commodity prices and a falling yen, just hours after the Bank of Japan ruled out any early rise in interest rates….

…Deutsche Bank reckons getting inflation back to target will require unemployment breaching 5.5 per cent….

…Chief executive Graeme Watt suggested continued investment in IT is partly due to the expansion of hybrid working arrangements, but also because of the imperative to reduce costs through technology investment…

…£500mn and adjusted cash profits of £100mn-£130mn. And a new, £156mn bank ing facility will help to shore up its liquidity position. But revenue growth…

…Credit quality remains high, as numbers from Deutsche Bank and UniCredit also showed. But if UK banks appear to be making too much money, Sunak’s government is more likely to increase windfall taxes….