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  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Special ReportCorporate Change and Technology
    Financial advisers’ embrace of digitalisation tested by pandemic

    More firms are finding the value of tech to upgrade operations and improve customer experience

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Markets InsightCathie Wood
    Stand ready for the big five technology convulsions reshaping markets

    Investors must position portfolios for the innovations that will transform the global economy

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    FT AlphavilleAfrican economy
    Covid is accelerating a quiet technology revolution in Africa

    A group of tech-enabled companies that most of the world has never heard of is driving economic growth on the continent.

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Special ReportFT Intelligent Business
    Big Four primed for new audit rules to speed legal push

    Forcing accounting firms to split services would boost their encroachment on law firms

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Crisis puts law firm focus on delivering digital tools

    Even sceptics are looking to re-engineer their approach to legal services

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Special ReportDigital Lawyers
    Coronavirus forces lawyers to face their digital future

    The legal sector has escaped radical change by new technology — so far. Is that about to change?

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    FT AlphavilleAshley Nunes
    Ride-hailing’s collapsing house of cards

    Uber and Lyft need to prove they’re economically viable, but doing so while keeping its customer base seems impossible.

  • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
    US insurance industry
    Insurance experts put premium on start-ups reaching the big time

    Investors have backed ‘insurtechs’ such as Lemonade but will consumers do the same?

  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
    Special ReportWorking From Home
    Insurers widen scope of business cover in light of crisis

    The shift to home working could open up the commercial insurance market to disrupters

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers
    FT General Counsel

    We highlight 27 top in-house lawyers. Plus: Companies double down on ESG after the pandemic; requirements for a start-up mindset; making people matter in times of strife; and a radical makeover at Panasonic

  • Sunday, 14 June, 2020
    Wolfgang Münchau
    3D printing can be a real source for optimism

    The Covid-19 lockdown could provide the boost the technology needs

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    FT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Can Canada’s property market repeat the success of 2008?

    Housing boosted economic recovery after the financial crisis — how will it fare in the wake of coronavirus?

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    FT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Brazil’s tech moonshots target social problems

    Education and social commerce apps try to address the neglected needs of poorer communities

  • Sunday, 10 May, 2020
    The online challengers disrupting the disrupters

    Dominant platforms such as Airbnb and Uber are looking ripe for an upset by the ‘DAO’

  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    Cover Genius tops FT ranking with insurtech platform

    The Australian company was borne out of an online travel business that had a problem to solve

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    Kenya
    Kenya finally approves Loon internet balloons

    Permit is fast-tracked to boost communications capacity to help fight coronavirus spread

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    Jonathan Guthrie
    Why Europe’s start-ups miss out on full ‘network effect’

    Despite barriers, fragmented market can help some online platforms create fortresses with national boundaries

  • Monday, 9 March, 2020
    Amazon.com
    Amazon offers to sell its technology to other retailers

    Tech company markets in-store cameras that track what shoppers pick up

  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
    Robinhood
    Robinhood shutdown leaves users feeling robbed

    Outages on free trading platform come on two very busy days for US stock market

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    Special ReportThe Future of Marketing
    Accenture spearheads consultancy v advertising turf war

    Tech consultants compete for marketing and IT budgets — but agencies fight back

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    N26
    Digital bank N26 to pull out of UK

    German challenger blames Brexit disruption although fintech rivals maintain commitment

  • Monday, 10 February, 2020
    Starling Bank
    Starling raises £60m to fund business service and overseas push

    UK challenger will focus on expansion in Europe as app-based banks spread wings

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    John Thornhill
    Venture capitalists should harpoon more whales

    The worry for Silicon Valley is that the impulse for creative destruction is now fading

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Uber looks to radical financing to fund driverless cars

    Car fleet investment trusts would establish autonomous vehicles as new asset class

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    Why Microsoft and Tesla are the decade’s big disrupters

    Electric cars and the public cloud are set to tip the market and leave competitors scrambling

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