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Disrupters

  • Wednesday, 6 August, 2025
    Markets InsightHilary Allen
    Tech does not deserve special legal treatment

    Pulling down regulatory barriers to aid innovation ignores the fact that they protect the public from harm

    US President Donald Trump displays the GENIUS Act
  • Monday, 21 July, 2025
    Rana Foroohar
    Tech shocks to industry have only just begun

    The disruption that is hitting the manufacturing sector could come for healthcare next

  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special Report
    Global Brands

    Brand owners have rarely faced a more testing period, given the need to carefully navigate rapidly shifting political and cultural conventions to reach consumers who are increasingly polarised and atomised in their tastes and views

    Charli XCX attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    John Thornhill
    The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot

    AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

    A model of a unicorn
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    News in-depthTelecoms
    Octopus and Revolut set sights on UK mobile market disruption

    Brands are piling into the telecoms sector by piggybacking on incumbents’ networks

    Montage of woman on a smartphone with Revolut and octopus signs in the background
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Markets InsightHilary Allen
    Trump’s crypto embrace is a threat to Wall Street

    Stablecoins will increasingly challenge bank deposits as a riskier place for people to park their cash

    Wall Street sign
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon

    On top of ride-sharing and takeaways, the company’s couriers now transport goods for many retailers. But is it trying to do too much?

    A montage pic of an Uber Eats driver, an Uber car and an Uber App
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers
    Business Legal Leaders

    We examine how senior in-house lawyers are adapting to new business needs in a monthly series. In the final part: dealing with cyber threats, plus the FT top 15 in-house legal leaders

    Businessman holding a meeting inside a conference room with colleagues sitting around the table
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Uber Technologies Inc
    Uber courts London’s black-cab drivers in push to expand services

    Ride-hailing company hopes to register enough cabbies to start a new option in the UK capital

    A London taxi cab
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    Hollywood’s fight is your fight

    There will be more battles over how to divide the intellectual property pie in all industries

  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Special ReportFT Business Education Research Insights
    The hunt for technologies to disrupt carbon

    With some progress on electric vehicles and energy, two academics consider what could drive change elsewhere

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Markets InsightAnne Richards
    How fintech can adapt to a tougher environment

    Long-term survival is often underrated as a business objective

    The Stripe app logo
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Chegg is a harbinger of AI’s disruptive force

    Online education sector will be far from the last to be shaken up by new platform shift

    Montage of Chegg, ChatGBT, and hands on laptop
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    LexPan Kwan Yuk
    The Lex Newsletter: higher rates put squeeze on fintech lenders too Premium content

    Disrupters’ plans to take on established institutions fizzle out after rise in funding costs

    Affirm’s website on the screen of a mobile phone
  • Monday, 24 April, 2023
    Food Prices
    Europeans shouldn’t laugh about that $29 NYC sandwich

    Consolidation coming

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    A new technology boom is at hand

    Consumer tech might no longer be a growth area, but the digitisation of industry has just begun

    A large robotic arm dispenses the components of a building under construction while a small person looks on
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Oliver Ralph
    Why technology has failed to disrupt insurance

    While start-ups have revolutionised retail and travel, they have barely made a dent in this sector

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    John Thornhill
    In (partial) defence of Silicon Valley

    For all their faults, tech innovators may at last be making an impact on productivity — and on wider society

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a digital fist squeezing a sliced banana
  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    LexBanks
    Central bank digital currency: blockchain could upend banking Premium content

    Banks must lead industrialisation of their services or risk further erosion of earnings from core activities

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    Patrick Jenkins
    Why Visa and Mastercard have yet to face their Kodak moment

    The fintech disrupters of the payments sector are no such thing

    A sales clerk stacks Kodak film in a camera shop in Tokyo
  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    The financial infrastructure industry needs a new playbook

    The golden era is over

  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
    Technology start-ups must look beyond scale

    In tough economic times, tech businesses need focus and profitability as well as growth

    Mixed group of millennial aged friends discuss investing and cryptocurrency trading at a cafe
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A golden age of consumer convenience is passing

    Growth strategy of on-demand services has become harder to sustain

    Apps from streaming services Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Videoland and Netflix on a mobile phone
  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    The crypto shake-out shows boring is back

    Disrupters of the global financial system have been disrupted as the Fed removes punch bowl of stimulus

    Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq in New York in April last year
  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    News in-depthAffirm Holdings, Inc
    Affirm struggles to convince investors of fintech bona fides

    ‘Buy now pay later’ group becomes more reliant on loans amid plummeting share price

    Montage of Max Levchin, Affirm Holdings’ founder, and logo
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