From: FT.com on Fri, Jun 03 2011 8:10 AM

Playboy, the magazine, may have had its heyday in the 60s and 70s but the brand still has appeal. A new club is opening in London. Lex’s Edward Hadas and Luke Templeman discuss the opportunities and perils of its brand management.

From: FT.com on Thu, Jun 02 2011 2:26 PM

Keith Cochrane, chief executive of Weir, has overseen a doubling of the engineering group’s share price in the past 12 months. But can this recent success be sustained? Peter Marsh, manufacturing editor, talks to Daniel Garrahan about this week's View from the Top interview with Mr Cochrane.

From: FT.com on Thu, Jun 02 2011 2:26 PM

Weir, one of the UK’s biggest engineering groups, has had a good year. Its share price has doubled in the past 12 months, driven by the need for more materials and more energy. In this week's View from the Top, its chief executive Keith Cochrane talks to Peter Marsh, manufacturing editor, a...

From: FT.com on Thu, Jun 02 2011 2:26 PM

The risk on-off trade has worked very well for three years - confident investors buy risky assets, making the dollar fall (and vice versa). But as James Mackintosh, investment editor, warns there is a point beyond which the logic behind the theory is deeply counterintuitive. A failure to raise t...

From: FT.com on Wed, Jun 01 2011 4:27 PM

The Muslim Brotherhood has emerged from Egypt’s January revolution as one of the country's leading political forces. After being banned for decades under former president Hosni Mubarak, it has formed a party, mobilised volunteers all over the country and is preparing for parliamentary elect...

From: FT.com on Wed, Jun 01 2011 10:01 AM

Once again regulation will be foremost in people’s minds at the annual International Derivatives Expo (IDX) which gets under way next week in London. Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the Futures and Options Association, one of the organisers of IDX, says regulation is moving too fast and ...

From: FT.com on Tue, May 31 2011 9:41 AM

Emirates has followed Coca Cola and Adidas to become the third World Cup sponsor to publicly voice concern about the crisis at Fifa. Roger Blitz, leisure industries correspondent, talks down the line from Zurich to Daniel Garrahan about how Fifa will respond and why Sepp Blatter will be re-elect...

From: FT.com on Tue, May 31 2011 7:36 AM

A whole generation of people in the UK have given up on the idea of ever being able to afford to buy a house. But Lex’s John Authers and Luke Templeman discuss how the mathematics suggest it could be the time to buy.

From: FT.com on Sun, May 29 2011 7:18 AM

As exchanges are consolidating and regulation is becoming tighter, what can a new exchange offer to differentiate itself. Richard Baker, chief executive of startup Cleartrade Exchange, explains to Philip Stafford how they plan to focus on the commodities market and could build with Dodd-Frank an...

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 3:52 PM

Russian state-owned bank VTB has grown extraordinarily in the last eight year. FT banking editor Patrick Jenkins assesses chief executive Andre Kostin’s views: his plans for further privatisation; his Russian and global acuqisition strategy; and his take on the next head of the International Mone...

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 3:52 PM

Sixteen years after his indictment for genocide and crimes against humanity, the former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has been arrested finally in Serbia. East Europe editor Neil Buckley assesses the impact on Serbia’s ambitions to join the European Union and on the Serb hardliners in Bosnia.

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 3:51 PM

Russian state-owned bank VTB has grown extraordinarily in the last eight year. FT banking editor Patrick Jenkins interviews chief executive Andre Kostin. They focus on: his plans for further privatisation; his Russian and global acuqisition strategy; and his take on the next head of the Internati...

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 1:38 PM

Andrei Kostin, chief executive of state-owned Russian bank VTB, places long or short bets on the news agenda from the US economy and Medvedev to the Olympics and Brics.

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 9:11 AM

Basel III is the stricter banking code to be introduced to avoid another financial crisis, but the European Union has proposed looser capital requirements. Lex’s John Authers and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss why this risks repeating the same mistakes caused by the previous global banking code...

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 4:40 AM

Rohit Jaggi flies the Piaggio P180 Avanti III, a jet with an innovative wing design that is unlike the aircraft to which most people are accustomed

From: FT.com on Fri, May 27 2011 4:40 AM

When Rohit Jaggi drives the Lexus CT 200h, he finds a hybrid vehicle, strangely quiet but with clever touches

From: FT.com on Thu, May 26 2011 3:09 PM

Video debate: What can companies do with their bulging balance sheets, other than sit on cash? Plus, what is the philosophy likely to be of the International Monetary Fund under its new head? In the chair, analysis editor Frederick Studemann debates the issues with FT colleagues Chris Giles, eco...

From: FT.com on Thu, May 26 2011 12:57 PM

European leaders are unsuccessfully trying to damp down talk of a Greek default amid apocalyptic warnings of its effects. James Mackintosh, investment editor, pieces together the evidence and concludes it may not be quite that bad.

From: FT.com on Thu, May 26 2011 10:45 AM

Chancellor Angela Merkel has performed a U-turn by ending Germany’s pro-nuclear policy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Gerrit Wiesmann, Berlin correspondent, reports from the country's oldest operational nuclear reactor, and looks at how the government hopes to plug the new ...

From: FT.com on Thu, May 26 2011 10:45 AM

Laurence Parisot, president of MEDEF, the french employers federation, tells the FT’s Andrew Hill about misogyny in business and society and why quotas for female board members are necessary