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    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      COP28
      World Bank leader says climate loss and damage fund is a ‘beginning’

      Money from historic agreement would not be made available before ‘sometime next year’

      World Bank president Ajay Banga
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      How Ajay Banga can ‘stretch’ the World Bank’s balance sheet

      The new president will need private investors to back his wider list of global goals

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      World Bank
      World Bank to ‘stretch every dollar’ with new lending measures

      Initiatives will involve taking more risk in pivot towards climate change and pandemics

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      Developing countries have hit the financial rocks

      The dire situation on debt has become pressing — urgent action is needed

      James Ferguson illustration of a ship hitting rocks in high seas, with the hull of the boat represented by the southern hemisphere of the planet
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The west should pay heed to Ajay Banga Premium content

      His appointment is an opportunity for the World Bank to try to take centre stage again

      Ajay Banga
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Moral Money
      A new experiment in blended finance Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, tech giants face a clean energy reckoning

      Ajay Banga
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      World Bank
      Yellen says she expects Ajay Banga to be elected World Bank president

      Former Mastercard chief executive has spent recent weeks on ‘listening tour’ touting his credentials

      Ajay Banga speaks in an interview
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Global Economy
      What the World Bank needs to do now

      The institution must work with the private sector if we are to meet the challenges that lie ahead

      Ajay Banga wearing suit and Sikh turban gestures with his left hand. Behind him is a background image of black children working a field
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      World Bank
      Banga navigates geopolitics and tight capital for World Bank job

      Former Mastercard chief sets out credentials to run financial institution on international tour

      Ajay Banga
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      The future of the World Bank

      Major US employers report a dramatic improvement in hiring conditions despite official data

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      Person in the News
      Ajay Banga, World Bank nominee must swap finance for climate

      The US pick for the institution’s president will face pressure to overhaul its approach to the environment

      Illustration of Ajay Banga wearing a Sikh turban and suit and holding a brief case with World Bank on it and with the World Bank logo behind him
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      World Bank
      US nominates former Mastercard chief as World Bank president

      Ajay Banga tapped by Joe Biden as institution shifts to greater focus on climate change

      Ajay Banga
    • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Wall Street’s advice to Trump: give it up Premium content

      Some big names have called on the president to welcome his successor. And he listened. Sort of

    • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
      LexMastercard Inc
      Mastercard/Michael Miebach: benchmarked against Banga Premium content

      Upsides are harder to come by when the company you inherit is already a well-oiled machine

    • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
      Mastercard Inc
      Mastercard announces Michael Miebach will be new chief

      Ajay Banga to step aside at the start of 2021 and move into executive chairman role

    • Monday, 3 February, 2020
      InterviewMastercard Inc
      Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook

      Ajay Banga says tech giant’s Libra project morphed: ‘I’m like, this doesn’t sound right’

    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2017
      Companies
      MasterCard earnings, sales jump on higher transaction volumes
    • Thursday, 21 July, 2016
      UK banks
      Mastercard buys payments processor Vocalink
    • Thursday, 2 July, 2015
      US & Canadian companies
      MasterCard cashes in on smart transit

      Credit card company promotes seamless ticketing in cash-dominated market

      Commuters pass the turnstiles during the evening hours at Se metro station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 6, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Yasuyoshi Chiba        (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/GettyImages)
    • Tuesday, 2 June, 2015
      Simon Kuper
      The future belongs to the cities of the west

      These are places where today’s 0.1 per cent, the most mobile class in history, might want to live

      Rows of houses stand on Egerton Crescent in the Kensington and Chelsea borough of London, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Egerton Crescent, close to Harrods luxury department store in Knightsbridge, is the most expensive address in the borough, with an average property value of 8.14 million pounds ($13.2 million), Lloyds TSB said. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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