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Behind the Money

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From hostile takeovers to C-suite intrigue, Behind the Money takes you inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from Financial Times journalists around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:35

Vote for Behind the Money in the Signal Awards!

Behind the Money ·

2025/09/26

Behind the Money has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Money & Finance category! It's a Listener Choice award, which means we need your help. Vote for us to win here. We appreciate your support!And while you're at it, vote for some other FT podcasts that have also been nominated. The FT News Briefing podcast was nominated for best daily podcast category. Vote here. And our Tech Tonic podcast was nominated for best technology podcast.Vote here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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19:55

A subprime auto lender collapsed. Wall Street has...

Behind the Money ·

2025/09/24

The recent collapse of Tricolor Holdings, a subprime auto lender in Texas, has left a trail of losses and questions from Wall Street to low-income immigrant communities throughout the American south-west. The FT’s US banking correspondent Akila Quinio, and Amelia Pollard, US investment correspondent, explain what they’ve found.Clip from Fifth Third- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further reading:Tricolor collapse sparks concern about health of US subprime auto sectorDebt linked

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24:04

Is there a future for the ‘Amazon of Africa’?

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2025/09/17

Ecommerce start-up Jumia was supposed to become the “Amazon of Africa”. Its prospects seemed promising after raising close to $800mn prior to its IPO in 2019 — more than any African start-up. But in the years since, things haven’t gone the way investors probably hoped. The FT’s west and central Africa correspondent Aanu Adeoye explains Jumia’s plans to turn the business around, and what its challenges say about applying western business models in Africa.Clip from New York Stock Exchange- - - - - - -

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23:32

How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

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2025/09/10

The natural diamond industry is facing an existential threat: lab-grown diamonds. They’re chemically and physically identical to natural stones, and they're just a fraction of the price. Eleanor Olcott, the FT’s China technology correspondent, travelled to the epicentre of lab-grown diamond production in the central Chinese province of Henan to see how they’re made. While the FT’s natural resources editor, Leslie Hook, explores what the sale of leading natural diamond producer, De Beers, could mean

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19:53

Chevron prepares to take on ExxonMobil

Behind the Money ·

2025/09/03

Earlier this summer, energy supermajor Chevron secured access to one of the most valuable oilfields in the world. It was the culmination of a months-long battle that pitted America’s second-largest oil company against the largest, ExxonMobil. The FT’s US energy editor, Jamie Smyth, looks at what Chevron aims to do next, and how it plans to take on its larger rival.Clips from CNBC, Bloomberg- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Sign up for the FT Weekend Festival at ft.com/festival and

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1:53

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Will AI ruin music?

Behind the Money ·

2025/08/29

AI music generators - platforms that use artificial intelligence to create new, original music from scratch - can make songs that are almost indistinguishable from human creations. For some musicians, they’re the next frontier in music-making technology. But for others, they represent a grave threat, flooding the world with low-grade AI music, stealing the jobs of working musicians, and even spelling the end of the creative process as we know it. Is this just technophobia, or is music facing AI

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20:37

Unhedged: The Fed under attack

Behind the Money ·

2025/08/27

This week we're sharing an episode from, Unhedged, another podcast from the FT network.The annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is supposed to be an intellectual retreat. Instead, it was overshadowed by personal and political attacks on US Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook. Today on the show, Katie Martin talks to US economics editor Claire Jones about her reporting from Jackson Hole and what might happen if the central bank falls under the president’s control. Also, we

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23:29

Palantir’s relentless rise

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2025/08/20

Palantir shares have soared this year, making the data analytics company one of the most valuable listed US tech groups. The FT’s Tabby Kinder explains how a paradigm shift in Silicon Valley helped propel Palantir to new heights and why many think it will be among the biggest winners of more US federal spending on national security, immigration and space exploration – even as others have started questioning its valuation.Clips from Bloomberg, CNBC, FOX Business, HBO, More Perfect Union, Newsweek,

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20:34

Why Big Tobacco is buzzing over nicotine pouches

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2025/08/13

As the popularity of cigarettes has slid in the past couple decades, Big Tobacco has been searching for a new hit product. Now, they think they’ve found it: nicotine pouches. FT reporters Clara Murray and Mari Novik explain how nicotine pouches became popular, and whether they’ll become the sector’s newest addiction or if they will be snuffed out.Clips from ABC News, ABC4 Utah, CBS Mornings, Theo Von Podcast, Time, TikTok- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further reading:The new

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22:14

Can Bobby Jain build the next hedge fund giant?

Behind the Money ·

2025/08/06

Two summers ago, hedge fund manager Bobby Jain set out with a huge goal: build a hedge fund that can rival the likes of industry giants Citadel and Millennium. But in the year since his firm started trading, Jain has found the going tough. FT hedge fund correspondents Amelia Pollard and Costas Mourselas explain what difficulties he has encountered, and whether building a true rival in this space is possible.Clip from Bloomberg TV- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further reading

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39:47

Fixable: How to bring a business back to life

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2025/07/30

This week we’re sharing an episode from Fixable, a podcast from TED. In it, hear about the resurrection of Barnes & Noble.Chief revival architect and CEO James Daunt joins hosts Anne Morriss and Frances Frei to discuss the unconventional leadership strategies that helped him navigate through the pandemic and keep bookstores alive in the age of Amazon and e-books. Anne and Frances explore James’s non-hierarchical approach to team building, dive into the challenges he faced on his mission to

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23:24

Wall Street banks and private equity’s tussle over...

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2025/07/23

The competition for junior talent between private equity and Wall Street banks reached a new peak this summer. That’s thanks to a controversial recruiting practice that is causing both industries to find talent earlier and earlier.Now, powerful figures such as JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon are publicly decrying the strategy. The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap and banking editor Ortenca Aliaj explain the origins of this friction and what it says about the future of Wall Street and private

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1:01

Introducing Tech Tonic: The rise and fall of Trump’s...

Behind the Money ·

2025/07/22

Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? Has Mark Zuckerberg really been a fan of Donald Trump all along? And is the bromance between Elon Musk and the president really over?In a new season of Tech Tonic, Murad Ahmed explores the relationships between Trump and some of the titans of the tech world. What is really driving those relationships, and what might they mean for the future of technology in the US and beyond?Free to read:‘He is power’: billionaires line up for Donald Trump’s

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21:04

Inside BCG’s Gaza work scandal

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2025/07/16

Top consulting firms have repeatedly found themselves facing a reputational crisis. The most recent example was in early July, when a Financial Times investigation revealed that Boston Consulting Group had modelled a plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza after entering into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the enclave. In this week’s episode, the FT’s US accounting editor, Stephen Foley, explains his reporting and examines what these events say about how effective

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19:49

A case of Schrödinger’s tariffs

Behind the Money ·

2025/07/09

It’s been exactly 90 days since US President Donald Trump paused most of his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs. With just a 10 per cent blanket tariff on all imports and a higher tariff on China,economists predicted the American economy would feel the heat pretty quickly. But the sky hasn’t fallen yet – the world’s largest economy is holding strong. The FT’s US economics editor Claire Jones explains why that is and when markets may start to feel the effects of Trump’s tariffs.Clips from CBS News, CNBC, TODAY- -

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19:14

How oil traders called the Middle East war

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2025/07/02

When Iran attacked a US airbase in Qatar – a response to strikes on its nuclear facilities – many feared a global war may be imminent. But there was one market that didn’t break a sweat: oil. It’s typically a commodity that surges at the first sight of conflict in the Middle East. This time though, oil traders bet that the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the US would be short-lived. The FT’s energy editor Malcolm Moore explains how traders called the outcome correctly.Clips from ABC News, Al

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16:46

The end of the UK’s ‘bailout era’

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2025/06/25

The Royal Bank of Scotland was once the biggest bank in the world. Then, hubris got the best of it. During the financial crisis the UK government spent £46bn to bail out the bank. Seventeen years and a rebrand to NatWest Group later, the government just sold its last shares in it and officially ended the country’s “bailout era”. The FT’s Akila Quinio analyses what this means for the economy and for NatWest.Clips from ABC News, BBC, NBC- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further

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22:53

Inside Moët Hennessy’s crisis

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2025/06/18

LVMH’s wine and spirits division, Moët Hennessy, has long been a source of success – and cash – for the luxury goods behemoth. But more recently, that’s changed. The FT’s Paris correspondent Adrienne Klasa, found that certain strategic decisions made under the company’s former CEO have contributed to a change in its fortunes. She examines the missteps and whether the division can make a comeback.Clips from Olympics- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further reading:Moët Hennessy’s

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24:02

How Indonesia cornered the nickel market

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2025/06/11

A decade ago, Indonesia produced only 6% of the world’s supply of refined nickel. Now, it hasa de facto monopoly on the market. How did it happen? The FT’s Jakarta correspondent A. Anantha Lakshmi and FT’s commodities correspondent Camilla Hodgson examine what propelled this explosive growth and how China helped it happen.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For further reading:‘The Opec of nickel’: Indonesia’s control of a critical metal‘Production first, safety later’: inside the

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2:08

Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange

Behind the Money ·

2025/06/04

In a special six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the economic events reshaping the world in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s election.Subscribe and listen to this series on The Economics Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts.Episodes will also be available on the FT’s YouTube channel.If you’d like to get in touch and ask Martin and Paul a

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