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Arash Massoudi

Finance and Markets Editor

Arash Massoudi is the FT’s finance and markets editor, overseeing global coverage of markets, corporate finance, deals and private capital. Based in London, he also manages the teams behind FT Money and FT Wealth. Arash joined the FT in 2011 after working at the US Department of Commerce and has since reported from London and New York.

His journalism has been recognised for awards for reporting on Tesla, SoftBank, Greensill Capital and HNA Group. In 2024, he was part of the team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of Credit Suisse's collapse.

Arash is the co-creator and edits Due Diligence, the FT's finance and deals newsletter, and helped launch the FT's sport business coverage and Scoreboard newsletter. He also hosts two flagship FT conferences: DD Live and the Business of Football Summit.

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
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    Revolut in talks to raise new funding at $65bn valuation

    Fintech aims to secure $1bn from investors in private round set to be led by US investment firm Greenoaks

    A smartphone displaying the Revolut app screen
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Media
    Matthew Freud sets up sale of PR firm with help from George Osborne

    Former Conservative chancellor is leading a review of options as a partner at boutique bank Robey Warshaw

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    Contest for Spanish-owned UK high street bank was expected to be hotly contested

    NatWest Group’s headquarters in London
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Pret A Manger Ltd
    Pret A Manger owner sounds out new investors ahead of potential IPO

    JAB Holding has engaged advisers to explore options for the sandwich and coffee chain after a turbulent few years

    People outside a Pret A Manger
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    What next for Thames Water?

    UK’s largest utility at risk of nationalisation after KKR walked away from £4bn rescue deal

    A graphic showing KKR & Thames Water logo as well as a tap and £20 sterling notes
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    Thames Water
    KKR feared political risk from Thames Water rescue deal

    US private equity firm’s withdrawal throws future of Britain’s largest water utility into doubt

    A Thames Water sign against a blue sky with white clouds
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
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    Messaging app’s 1bn users will gain access to Grok chatbot after Tesla chief met founder Pavel Durov

    A montage of Pavel Durov with the Telegram logo and US dollars in the background
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
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    Trump media group plans to raise $3bn to spend on cryptocurrencies

    US president’s administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets

    Donald Trump at a bitcoin conference in Nashville last year
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Media
    The reluctant newsman: How the Telegraph finally found an owner

    After two years of false starts, RedBird Capital Partners is buying Britain’s rightwing paper for £500mn

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio ousted chief Stausholm to seek boss with more mining experience

    Executive leaving sooner than expected with heads of iron ore and aluminium units in the running to replace him

    Jakob Stausholm reading from a speech during a presentation
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Legal services
    Kirkland lures top Skadden corporate partner as talent war rages on

    Law firms continue to recruit rainmakers with outsized paydays despite dealmaking being at a low ebb

    Kirkland & Ellis sign on building
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Richard Caring
    Sheikh Tahnoon’s IHC nears deal for stake in Caring’s Ivy hospitality empire

    Talks between Abu Dhabi royal’s holding company and ‘King of Mayfair’ could lead to a deal worth over £1bn

    Montage of Richard Caring, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, and an Ivy restaurant
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    Evercore poaches top European Citigroup dealmaker

    Luigi de Vecchi will join the US investment bank from July and open Milan office

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  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Private equity
    Private equity’s best days are over, says Egyptian billionaire Sawiris

    Buyout firms’ difficulties in securing exits and distributing cash to investors are leading to mounting frustration

    Nassef Sawiris in his London office
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Football
    Leeds United to spend every ‘last penny’ on Premier League survival

    Club’s US owner pledges to push outlay on players ‘to the limits’ after securing return to top tier of English football

    Leeds United captain Ethan Ampadu lifts the Championship trophy
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    JAB Holdings Ltd
    Peter Harf to retire from JAB after overseeing $50bn-plus deal spree

    Executive, 78, steps down after the value of the consumer-focused portfolio he built declined by $10.1bn in 2024

    Peter Harf
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
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    Elliott’s ‘lone wolf’: the hedge fund maverick waging war on Big Oil

    Other activist investors now take a less confrontational approach. John Pike is in a full-blown proxy fight

    John Pike with logos of Elliott Management, BP and Philips 66
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    Non-dom tax status
    Egyptian billionaire Sawiris says ‘Tory incompetence’ forced him to quit UK

    Aston Villa co-owner blames past Conservative governments, not the Labour chancellor, as he redomiciles to Italy and Abu Dhabi

    Nassef Sawiris, billionaire Egyptian businessman photographed at his London office in 2024
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Trump chaos prompts big pension funds to cool on US

    Rethink comes as tariffs and talk of territorial expansion stoke market instability and geopolitical tension

    A montage of Canadian and Danish currency and colours
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Prada SpA
    Prada cuts Versace purchase price by $200mn after Trump tariffs

    Italian fashion group set to announce $1.38bn tie-up with Capri-owned house as soon as Thursday

    A Versace model on the runway during Milan Fashion Week in February
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    IPOs
    Companies pause US IPO plans as Trump tariffs tank markets

    Market for public listings had begun to show some signs of life but fallout from levies has forced groups to hold off

    Klarna app on a phone
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    TikTok Inc
    White House close to approving sale of TikTok’s US unit to investors

    Blackstone and Andreessen Horowitz among firms poised to wrest control of social media site from China’s ByteDance

    The TikTok app logo
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Nuclear fusion
    Germany’s Marvel Fusion raises €113mn as nuclear fusion race heats up

    EQT Ventures and Siemens Energy among new backers in Munich-based start-up’s latest funding round

    Inside Marvel Fusion lab
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Financial services
    New Hakluyt head vows to keep British advisory firm independent

    Thomas Ellis took over as managing partner after previous leader left to become UK prime minister’s chief business aide

    Thomas Ellis
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Alphabet Inc
    Google parent Alphabet agrees $3.2bn break fee in Wiz deal

    Decision reflects risk regulators could block takeover of cyber security start-up

    The Google logo on the side of a building
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