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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Insurance prices for ships travelling through the Strait of Hormuz have jumped more than 60 per cent since the start of the war between Israel and Iran as the conflict threatens shipping in a key chokepoint for crude oil.As of this week, the cost of hull and machinery insurance for ships passing through the strait — a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman, connecting the Gulf to the Arabian Sea — as well as the wider Gulf area had risen from 0.125…

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Earlier this month, the US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs published an oblique notice on its website stating that it had received a new rule proposal from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.If that seems a little dull, consider that the proposed rule’s title was even more mind-numbing: “Modifications to Supplementary Leverage Capital Requirements for Large Banking Organizations; Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity Requirements for US Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies.”And yet, in some corners of the US finance industry, this has probably been greeted with the equivalent of a Mexican (soon to be rebranded American by the Trump administration, we…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The EU is accusing Chinese online marketplace AliExpress of breaching the bloc’s digital rules, as Brussels continues its efforts to utilise landmark legislation to police internet businesses.In preliminary findings issued on Wednesday, regulators said they were worried about the lack of effective measures from AliExpress to prevent the dissemination of illegal content such as counterfeit goods or unsafe products. Brussels also accused the company of failing to appropriately enforce its penalty policy concerning traders that repeatedly post illegal content.The decision comes as…

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Image: Adobe Adobe has extended its leadership in creative ideation with a major expansion of Adobe Firefly – its destination for AI-assisted content ideation, creation, and production – by bringing Firefly’s powerful image and video generation tools to phones. The newly launched Firefly iOS and Android app gives creators the freedom to explore ideas and generate or edit images and videos using AI, anytime and anywhere. Whether starting from scratch or refining content on the go, creators can now experience Firefly as a standalone mobile or web app, with seamless syncing to Adobe Creative Cloud applications, ensuring uninterrupted project continuity…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Britain’s transport secretary will on Wednesday admit that the High Speed 2 rail line faces new cost overruns and its completion will be further delayed by years as she seeks to blame the previous Conservative government for mismanagement. Heidi Alexander will tell MPs that the last administration overspent on the controversial railway line by signing contracts when advised not to and spending £2bn on a northern leg of the project that it then cancelled. She will also cite allegations that “parts of the supply…

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