Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, September 2, and this is your FT News Briefing.

YouTube's music streaming services hits a milestone, and the trucking industry is pulling out

all the stops to plug its driver shortage. Plus, we'll talk to our US banking editor Josh Franklin

about a growing but underbanked industry. A lot of companies and cannabis businesses really

only took money in cash. We're unable to process electronic payments, so they stored the cash

in house, and that elevated the risk of theft and burglaries. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's

the news you need to start your day. The music streaming industry has been dominated by a few

big names. Apple, Spotify, maybe even Amazon. Now there's another name muscling in. YouTube.

YouTube has announced that its music streaming services reached 50 million paid subscribers.

It's a sharp jump from last year, and also a milestone for YouTube's owner Google.

These latest subscriber numbers come after failed attempts to get a footing in the market,

attempts like YouTube Red. Experts say YouTube music has attracting users in emerging markets,

and also younger audiences. They say it's becoming to Gen Z, what Spotify was to millennials,

half a decade ago.

The FT's been reporting on a shortage of truckers in the UK because of COVID.

Well, in the US, the number of truckers has been declining for years, and COVID just made that

pre-existing shortage all the more excruciating. But now the truck companies are scrambling for new

drivers and undertaking recruiting efforts that they've never undertaken before, and they're

struggling to get people to bite. That's the FT's Steph Chavez. She says some US trucking companies

are now turning to the government for help bringing in more foreign drivers.

There seems to be this small and potentially growing group of truck driving companies

that wants the government to expedite the issuance of EB3 and H2B visas, which are employment-based

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