Press Digest: Financial Times - Feb. 16

BuzzFeed

16/02/2024 01:03

Feb 16(Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    
    Headlines
    - Britain's The Independent in talks to take control of
BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK
    - Ursula von der Leyen calls on EU to subsidise defence
production
    - More evidence of inflation easing needed before rate cuts,
says BoE policymaker Megan Greene
    - Deutsche Bank threatened with fines over flawed money
laundering controls
    
    Overview
    - British media group The Independent is in talks to take
control of the operations of BuzzFeed Inc.  BZFD.O  and HuffPost
UK.
    - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said
that Brussels should incentivise Europe's defence industry to
increase production and promote consolidation, as she warned
that the "world has got rougher".
    - Bank of England rate-setter Megan Greene said she will not
vote to cut the cost of borrowing before seeing more evidence
that inflation is returning to the central bank's target.
    - Germany's financial market regulator BaFin disclosed that
it is threatening fines against Deutsche Bank  DBKGn.DE  if it
doesn't improve deficiencies it sees in the bank's anti-money
laundering controls.
    
    

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
 ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))