FT News Briefing

Discover what’s in Capital One’s wallet

Donald Trump is losing support from small donors, US lender Capital One has agreed to buy rival Discover Financial for $35.3bn, and Barclays updated investors on its strategy for the first time in eight years.  Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/48jnoPe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donald Trump’s donor numbers fall by 200,000 compared with 2019</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/49jFyl3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Capital One agrees to buy Discover Financial for $35bn</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3OUICvR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Barclays to return £10bn to shareholders</a><a href="http://ft.com/uselectioncountdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to the FT US Election Countdown newsletter</a> The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Saffeya Ahmed, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. 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. <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2d3ba1ec-6fb8-42c0-abde-674073648207" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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