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    Jonathan Guthrie

    Head of Lex

    Jonathan Guthrie is an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. The award-winning Lex team analyses businesses and investment trends from London, New York, San Francisco and Seoul. Aside from Lex, Jonathan writes regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

    For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

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    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      Bank turmoil does not justify mission creep by deposit insurance

      Higher levels of cover would increase implicit subsidies to reckless bankers

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: is H100 a ‘god chip’ or a Doomsday device? Premium content

      Plus, OpenAI, Lenovo, Meta, Greenhill, Credit Suisse

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: where are the City’s missing wheeler dealers?

      Plus, UK equities, Google, Siemens Healthineers, SoftBank, Singapore

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: US banking eats itself, tail end first

      Plus, JPMorgan Chase, First Republic, Virgin Money, PDD, Thailand, tech stocks, Icahn

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Inside BusinessPrivate equity
      Labour has leverage to carry out private equity tax reform

      Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to scrapping industry break on ‘carried interest’

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: AI’s so hot right now Premium content

      Plus, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Kering

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      House & Home
      Hunting trophies do not furnish a room

      As a number of countries introduce bans, our columnist reflects on the fate of his inherited stuffed owl, Edwardian ostrich egg and monster pike

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Inside BusinessEuropean banks
      How default swaps become instruments of mass deception

      Recent Deutsche drama shows that CDS are a bad barometer of whether a bank is in trouble

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      House & Home
      Squirrel squabble: could a new player tip the odds between reds and greys?

      Scientists say an increase in pine martens could spur a red squirrel comeback in the UK

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: Credit Suisse bank run brings down an avalanche Premium content

      Plus, UBS, First Republic, Signature Bank, ChatGPT, Maserati, John Lewis

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: fear and loathing in California, Zurich and a bank branch near you Premium content

      SVB, HSBC, Credit Suisse, First Republic, UK Budget, UK pensions, Porsche

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: how rainmakers become troublemakers Premium content

      Plus, Jes Staley, Credit Suisse, Adidas, TikTok, Intel, Silvergate, artificial intelligence

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Digital currencies
      Why Britcoin would be taking a liberty

      Bank of England’s plans for a digital currency would overlap with commercial banks and give it new access to personal data

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: exodus to New York hammers City of London Premium content

      Plus, CRH, Arm, Goldman Sachs, Santander, UniCredit, Stripe, Tesla, Stripe

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      House & Home
      The marvels of migrating birds

      V formations and murmurations are majestic sights and models of co-operation — just don’t use them as a workplace metaphor

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: banks are hard to destroy even if you work at it Premium content

      Plus, Credit Suisse, Carlyle Group, Unilever, Iger/Peltz, Tesla, Uber, Baidu, BP

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Elliott Management Corp
      How Elliott became the McDonald’s of activism

      Hedge fund group has shown its reach and capacity with campaigns in Germany, Japan and US

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: bearishness is so 2022 these days Premium content

      Plus, Franklin Resources, Amazon, Shell, Big Tech, Peloton, Adani

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      House & Home
      The joys of bad nature photography

      Digital democratisation is welcome, but the clever tweakery of editing software has its drawbacks

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      ReviewCity of London
      Citizen of London by Michael McCarthy — lessons from Dick Whittington

      A chronicle of the life of the four-times London mayor who inspired an archetype

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      LexUK labour disputes
      The Lex Newsletter: call this a winter of discontent? Premium content

      International investors in the UK need not worry that the country has returned to the bad old days of 1978-79

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Inside BusinessGold
      Why gold is the bright stuff for would-be sanctions busters

      Bullion can be traded more easily beyond US oversight than dollars

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: cyclical trend will remain no friend in 2023 Premium content

      Plus, Paragon, Cineworld, Silvergate, Moderna, SpaceX, Luxshare, Salesforce

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      House & Home
      Why Fido is not a wolf in dog’s clothing

      ‘My own belief that wolves and dogs are separated only by a thin varnish of domestication crumbled recently. I have Seamus to thank for that’

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Inside BusinessInvestment Banking
      Credit Suisse First Boston 2.0: what could possibly go right?

      The bottom-of-the-cycle timing might be right for an independent investment bank

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