The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced last month that it’s rebranding the Global and Professional Direct Contracting model into an Accountable Care Organization model called ACO REACH. Elizabeth Fowler, director of CMMI, joins the Check Up to discuss the new ACO REACH model and changes to direct contracting.
NMC Health has sold its 53 per cent stake in Saudi Medical Care Group as the former FTSE hospital operator prepares to exit administration by the end of the month. The Abu Dhabi-based company did not identify the buyer in a statement published on Monday, but one person briefed on the matter said it was…
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The US securities regulator will ask companies to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions and have them verified by a third party, under long-awaited climate change risk rules proposed by the agency. A plank of the Biden administration’s pledge to limit global warming, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposal would require companies to publish their…
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Online advertising and digital privacy do not coexist in harmony. New privacy regulations, particularly in the EU, mean the days of being stalked around the internet by personalised adverts may be coming to an end. Not every tech giant is ready for the shift. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, expects to lose $10bn…
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This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT Hello from New York. While our Washington bureau will be covering the climate developments…
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For years banks around the world worried that regulating cryptocurrencies would legitimize them and pose a threat to the existing financial system. So they tried to kill bitcoin calling it a fraud, a Ponzi scheme, a vehicle for money launderers and terrorists to fund their activities. While in September 2017, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, called…
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Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy enterprise software company Anaplan for $10.7bn, just days after two hedge funds teamed up with a shareholder to launch an activist campaign against the San Francisco-based business. The leveraged buyout at $66 per share, a 30 per cent premium on Friday’s closing price, follows a flurry of private equity-led…
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Chipmakers’ multibillion-dollar expansion plans will be constrained by a shortage of critical equipment over the next two years as the supply chain struggles to step up production, according to one of the industry’s most important suppliers. The warning comes from Peter Wennink, chief executive of ASML, which dominates the global market for the lithography machines…
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The race to prevent catastrophic climate change is driving a massive expansion in the green bond market, where governments and companies can raise capital to finance their efforts to combat global warming. Issuance of green bonds reached a record $517.4bn in 2021, up 74 per cent from $297bn the previous year, according to Climate Bonds…
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Competition to secure experts in sustainable investing has led to a battle for talent that is driving bidding contests by fund managers and pushing salaries up by half for top hires. Head hunters and executives say competition is so intense that people are fielding multiple job offers, on top of concerted efforts by current employers…
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