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Matthew Vincent

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Matthew Vincent is the FT’s Lombard columnist and author of the Opening Quote morning email - providing daily commentary on UK companies.
He was previously Deputy Companies Editor, UK Companies Editor, and editor of the FT Money section. His ‘Equities’ and ‘Rich’ columns appear in FT Wealth magazine, and he presents FT News podcasts.

Matthew was named National Journalist of the Year by the Investment Management Association in 2011, a year after winning the Best Newspaper Journalist award from the Association of Investment Companies. He began his career with the FT Group on Investors Chronicle, which he edited for five years.

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  • Monday, 24 June, 2019
    LombardPatisserie Holdings PLC
    Luke Johnson cannot have his cake and eat it

    Former café chain boss returns to print, but hasn’t much to say about business’s demise

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2019
    LombardHargreaves Lansdown PLC
    Hargreaves needs to make call on Woodford best buy

    Clients of investment platform are trapped in manager’s frozen fund

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
    LombardUK banks
    Challenger bank CYBG looks to Branson brand

    All operations to be renamed Virgin Money with aim of disrupting status quo

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
    News in Focus podcast18 min listen
    Philip Green fashion empire crumbles

    The high-street fashion empire of Philip Green is on the rocks.

  • Monday, 17 June, 2019
    LombardMergers & Acquisitions
    Serco’s Babcock approach was a mop-missile mismatch

    Babcock offered a chance to move up to higher-margin defence engineering work

  • Monday, 17 June, 2019
    FT WealthBlockchain
    The Rich Column: using blockchain to help value art

    For centuries, galleries and auction houses have been able to say pretty much what they like about an artist’s work, without buyers having an easy way of checking its authenticity

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2019
    Special ReportFT Wealth: June 2019
    Loss-making tech companies are floating like it’s 1999

    Investors urged to avoid loss-makers and seek those groups that make the unicorns’ businesses possible

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    LombardEcommerce
    Amazon and Morrisons: the odd couple that clicked

    US ecommerce giant and UK supermarket announce same-day delivery service for Prime customers

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    LombardReckitt Benckiser Group PLC
    Reckitt’s new boss faces a Pepsi challenge

    Incoming chief executive of consumer products group faces some binary choices

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
    LombardTed Baker PLC
    Ted Baker’s 29% discount makes it look like a takeover bargain
  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    LombardNeil Woodford
    Woodford and activists are allied in dash for cash

    Faster sell off of Allied Minds’ assets and a faster return of cash would suit fund manager

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2019
    LombardNeil Woodford
    Woodford and St James’s Place: too cosy, too long

    Eighteen-year association comes to end as pair had become fundamentally incompatible

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
    LombardArcadia Group Ltd
    Sir Phil makes a watertight pension pledge

    Seafaring knight sweetens offer to help keep Arcadia afloat

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    LombardHargreaves Lansdown PLC
    If Woodford is fallen superstar, Hargreaves was his agent

    Investment platform continued to burnish flagship fund even as performance declined

  • Monday, 3 June, 2019
    LombardKier Group PLC
    Kier investors get that sinking feeling as they smell a Carillion

    Contractor’s dumping of bad news has left many holding their noses

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2019
    LombardArcadia Group Ltd
    Sir Phil learns a pension lesson — but the regulator’s wise to it

    Voicing concern over Arcadia’s CVA shows TPR is longer being bullied in the schoolyard

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2019
    LombardMarks & Spencer Group PLC
    M&S’s £600m rights issue is more like a Lidl offer

    Fundraising for Ocado venture will not deliver a profiterole or a profit for a while

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
    LombardBP PLC
    On carbon emissions, BP should be as sure as Shell

    Management of a company supposedly committed to renewables should know which way political wind is blowing

  • Monday, 20 May, 2019
    LombardFoxtons Group PLC
    Foxtons’ Mini-driving agents low on gas and extra revenues

    Insiders say transaction levels down to where they were after the financial crisis

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    LombardThomas Cook Group PLC
    Thomas Cook’s £1bn writedown shows airline sale is no rest cure

    Departure of flight business will not alleviate investors’ discomfort

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
    LombardProperty sector
    British Land and Landsec shrug off Brexit thanks to London elite

    Vote to leave the EU has widened the commercial split between London and the rest of England

  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2019
    LombardUK banks
    Fintech challengers lose to 18th-century lender

    Banking body awards funds to oldest mutual savings and mortgage provider Nationwide

  • Monday, 13 May, 2019
    LombardCentrica PLC
    Centrica hasn’t checked the weather on £2m CEO pay

    Iain Conn’s 44% rise comes despite the closest thing to a profit warning

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
    LombardBT Group Plc
    BT’s dividend comeback is not yet cause for cheer

    Telecoms group appears to be going defensive instead of gaining strength

  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
    LombardAccountancy
    KPMG pays £10m in fines but auditors owe us more

    Some privately admit that wholesale legislative reform is unavoidable

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