Take-up of the technology faces significant obstacles and disrupting the UK’s status quo will be a struggle
Treasury unit has raised questions over new technology
Better security and looser limits on spending fuel mobile transactions as cash continues its decline, report finds
Countries such as Thailand and Indonesia have tried to formalise process but struggle to boost take-up
The FT’s fifth annual ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth. Plus: outsourcers tap into remote work boom; Shopify targets more growth from bigger clients; Brazil’s alternative to electric vehicles; and Vertex Pharmaceutical’s potential answer to the opioid crisis
A WTO meeting next week will discuss the bizarre idea of trying to put border tariffs on data flows
Today’s technology allows companies to build and maintain relationships with all their customers, but must carefully balance data collection and privacy
Speeding up digital systems makes them more vulnerable to criminal networks and money laundering
No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
Just in time for Christmas, a festive plague of thieves is targeting online shopping deliveries
Latest update of the FT-Omdia Digital Economies Index highlights rapid spread of fast and reliable internet connections
Online trading platforms and blockchain ledger technology are transforming the way people save and invest. Here, FT journalists explain the potential of these new developments in the retail and institutional financial services industry Supported by Infosys
Also in this newsletter: Italy’s all-or-nothing attitude to its pandemic money
Improved business methods expand horizons beyond subsistence level
Taro Kono, Japan’s digital minister, says elections could be targeted by ‘malicious elements’
Also in this newsletter: ECB policy time; and who should police EU digital rules?
Companies that rely on these networks have little understanding of the system’s resilience to attack
Revenues are concentrated among a few megastars, with a yawning gap where a mid-level decent income might be
Unless regulators act, Big Tech’s dominance over the digital economy will be cemented
Every company should have a strategy to help it grow outside its home market, both geographically and across product lines
The Bank of England’s ‘Britcoin’ project could transform transactions — but questions about who gains from our data remain
Platform aims to increase transparency on provenance of pieces from smaller makers, boosting resale potential
Determining whether bytes originated in a ‘friendly country’ is painstaking work
Brussels warns prime minister Giorgia Meloni not to undermine tax evasion fight
Traders rush for exits alarmed at safety of their assets after FTX filed for bankruptcy
