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

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

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

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      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
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      Bullion can be traded more easily beyond US oversight than dollars

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