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Helen Thomas

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Helen Thomas is an executive editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the FT's flagship investment commentary service. She previously wrote a column on British business and finance. Previous roles in her first stint at the FT included being a Lex writer in New York, working on FT Alphaville, covering M&A and the mining sector. From 2013, she worked at the Wall Street Journal and then at BBC Newsnight before rejoining the FT in 2021.
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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Idea of lenders structuring and securitising their way to lower capital requirements sets off alarm bells

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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
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    Plus, Barclays, Capital One, Wish, Currys

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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
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    It is questionable how many companies taken private in recent years would return to the UK market if listed

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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
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    The Lex Newsletter: Let’s make a deal Premium content

    Plus, Diamondback Energy, Deutsche Bank, Stellantis, Tod’s

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  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
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    Plus, advertising agencies, Reddit, Big Pharma, Spotify

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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    The Lex Newsletter: waiting for the light Premium content

    Plus, European steelmakers, BP, Evergrande, UPS

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  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
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    Plus, Big Tech, mining ‘supercycle’, food delivery, Chinese banks

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  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
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  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
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    Plus, the FTSE 100, Mobileye, container shipping, Apple, Citi

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    Cutting from the lower-paid bottom ranks is not the answer to a slowdown in deals

  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
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    Strategic paralysis of the network is having serious knock-on effects in the sector

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    Persuading investors about its funding and convincing politicians are two different things

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
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    Lobbyists want to scrap the 20% threshold signifying meaningful investor dissent at AGMs

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  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
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    Idea has some merits but seems unlikely to noticeably swell the ranks of plucky British retail investors

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    The impact of these loans is underwhelming

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  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
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    Cutting carbon emissions is the correct path but the sector also needs a strategy to recycle scrap metal

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  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
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    Big Oil’s transatlantic strategy gulf has never been wider — and that is OK

    Mega-deals in the US make sense, but it’s not obvious why European groups should scale up too

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  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
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    The UK political juggling act of keeping prices high and promising affordability is increasingly unsustainable

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  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
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    Accounting regulator is no longer toothless but it still needs more powers

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