De La Rue in talks over stake with Edi Truell-backed investors
De La Rue shares closed 3 per cent higher in London trading on Thursday. Edi Truell, the veteran City financier and founder of both Disruptive Capital and Pension Superfund Capital, said he had been ...
Private equity group EQT backs six-a-side football competition
Baller League is among new events and formats backed by sports-focused investors using influencers to reach global audience ...
Could AI be crypto’s greatest ally?
That’s why asset manager Bitwise estimates that the intersection of AI and crypto could add a collective $20tn to global GDP ...
Chanel names Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy as new creative head
Bruno Pavlovsky, Chanel’s president of fashion, said the French-Belgian designer would join Chanel in the new year from his current position as creative director of Kering’s Bottega Veneta. He will ...
HSBC reviews retail banking outside UK and Hong Kong
HSBC is reviewing its retail banking operations outside the UK and Hong Kong, a move that could see it substantially scale back operations in countries including Mexico, as it seeks further cost cuts.
HBO parent Warner Bros to split TV and streaming into two units
Warner Bros Discovery unveiled plans to split its television networks and streaming and studios businesses into two units, in a move that heightens the odds of a break-up of the owner of HBO and CNN.
Queer film review — Daniel Craig is mesmerising in a swooning hymn to beauty
In Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, we find Lee living in Mexico in the 1950s, where he spends his time drifting between bars, using ...
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim film review — Tolkien reimagined as lumbering anime
Following Amazon’s series The Rings of Power, here is a new Tolkien derivative: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a lumbering anime directed by Kenji Kamiyama. Narratively, it bears ...
The five best Martini glasses
So my advice for Martinis is: keep them icy and small. That first, electrifying sip is usually the best one, after all. A 150ml glass is perfect. Or even smaller if you can. Vintage liqueur glasses ...
The Bibi Files film review — Benjamin Netanyahu exposed in riveting documentary
The Israeli prime minister exudes lofty entitlement and outraged ire in a film probing the corruption charges against him ...
The Universal Theory film review — a visually dazzling Alpine sci-fi noir
Vertiginous German-language mind-scrambler The Universal Theory is one of a kind — a visually dazzling retro exercise in paranoid Alpine sci-fi noir. It’s rather as if Philip K Dick had rewritten ...
British hedge fund trader jailed in Denmark over ‘cum-ex’ tax fraud
Sanjay Shah receives 12-year sentence for masterminding scheme that led to billions in refunds of non-existent tax payments ...