Ralph Atkins

The ultimate diplomatic challenge: can Switzerland strike deal between wolves and sheep? For FT magazine ft.com/content/8e62e2… via @FT

Martin Wolf: Boris Johnson's Brexit proposal would leave the UK poorer, with less influence in global commerce and reduced resources for any future government to work on domestic policies. The people need to consent to what will be a very costly deal. on.ft.com/31qMA3Q

Martin Wolf on this “monstrous act of national self harm”: UK must have a public vote on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal via @FT ft.com/content/a513c3…

England leaving the EU...

@FraserNelson @Telegraph With all due respect, I was there, and I can tell you that renogotiation was meaningful. And if I may, perhaps the some of the UK media, mainstream or yellow, should look at itself in the mirror, daily...and reflect about 40 years of #fakenews on the EU. That would be meaningful.

@RalphAtkins There's only one: businessinsider.com/mario-draghis-…

@fwred #bestcentralbankjokes

New IMF should ask outgoing IMF chief - it all ends in tiers.

I am interested in speaking with any Prudential customers who have been contacted by the Pru regarding a review of an annuity purchased between 2008 and 2017. Email josephine.cumbo@ft.com Please RT

Timely reminder from Citi that CEO remuneration at Swiss banks dwarfs that of other European rivals

John Gapper: Zurich is a sober and orderly city, so a fierce altercation between a banker to the world’s billionaires and a private detective who was trailing him is worthy of John Le Carré on.ft.com/2lyCCP0

Long live the cult. In the interests of loyalty to the cult and Corbyn, the Lab conference has decided to not have a view on the most important issue this country has faced since WW2. They’ll deserve what’s coming

@sjhmorris @FinancialTimes Sleepy?!! Not when I was there

It's been quite a year in sleepy Zurich... First Andrea Orcel's tumultuous failed switch to Santander and now this: "Swiss prosecutors probe surveillance of star Swiss banker Iqbal Khan, who defected from Credit Suisse to UBS" ft.com/content/3207f1… via @financialtimes

@Breiding3 @FinancialTimes Thanks!

@RalphAtkins @FinancialTimes Fun, spot on analysis

Lex letter from Zurich. Why would the Swiss central bank want to cut rates? ft.com/content/2b81ee… via @financialtimes

Ps it’s FREE to read on #FTOpenDay

The @FTLex chart authors and publishers have been waiting for: book length/average sales per year ft.com/content/8041ae…

Investment banking: the full monty on.ft.com/2LrChX9

Dear Britain, 🇬🇧 Italy is very inventive in a crisis: we do technocratic governments, grand coalitions, minority administrations. We even had a committee of ‘wise men’ once. 🇮🇹 But it’s been a while since we last shut down Parliament - and that did not end too well...

Isn’t this the same as a coup? ft.com/content/f138bf…

Will be interesting to see the headline once they find out what really happened.

@schieritz If Germans start using British humour, we’ll never cope...

Clever