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Dec 2022
9m 34s

India ramps up lending to counter China

Financial Times
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EU member states have reached a deal on the world’s first major carbon border tax, New Delhi has stepped up spending on infrastructure in neighbouring countries, the world’s largest investment banks for the first time will earn more dealmaking fees in India this year than in China, a new generation of artificial tasks is able to do more jobs that previously only humans could do.


Mentioned in this podcast:

Brussels agrees to world’s first carbon tax

India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender

Investors seek to profit from groundbreaking generative AI start-ups


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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