Brexit talks get reenergized, US Covid-19 vaccine rollout, eurozone banks’ dividends
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
US doctors could administer the first authorised coronavirus shot as soon as today, an EY anti-fraud team warned in 2018 that “red-flag indicators” at Wirecard pointed to potential accounting manipulation, and Europe’s top financial regulators are set to approve lender payouts within strict limits. Plus, Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed to extend negotiations for a UK-EU trade agreement. The FT’s Brexit editor, David Bond, explains how that might play out over the next few weeks.
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https://www.ft.com/content/6a6d5960-3e44-48c8-b33a-ee583b314ee3
Doctors set to give first authorised US doses of Covid-19 vaccine
https://www.ft.com/content/c06fed50-715c-4d2b-995c-b37a52254081
EY fraud unit found ‘red-flag indicators’ Wirecard in 2018
ft.com/content/3c0a0999-b434-4cad-9d9e-80cb85bf9cfd?
Eurozone banks set to restart dividend payments under strict limits
https://www.ft.com/content/2ffeb47f-cb88-478e-9819-f22ccd8b9668?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Monday, December 14th. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:07.0 | Doctors in the US could administer the country's first authorized coronavirus vaccines today. |
| 0:13.6 | It turns out, EY's warnings about wirecard came as early as 2018, |
| 0:18.0 | and bank investors in the Eurozone could see dividend payments restart soon. |
| 0:22.8 | But first, Brexit Talks gain new life on Sunday. |
| 0:25.9 | We'll explain how the newest developments |
| 0:27.4 | could shake out over the next three weeks. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:33.0 | Brexit talks were looking pretty grim last week. |
| 0:37.0 | There was relatively little movement. Brexit talks were looking pretty grim last week. |
| 0:43.3 | There was relatively little movement on the main issues of access to UK fishing waters |
| 0:47.6 | and a level playing field, which meant there was a ton of pressure going into this past weekend to make strides. Coming into today, things aren't |
| 0:55.8 | looking much better than they were, but they have improved. So much so that Sterling was |
| 1:01.0 | up around 1% in late Sunday trading. |
| 1:03.2 | Here to talk about what prompted this burst of optimism is the FT's Brexit editor David Bond. |
| 1:08.4 | David, let's look back to this past weekend. |
| 1:11.1 | What kind of progress did we see? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, it seems we did make some progress, |
| 1:16.0 | because if you remember going back to that dinner that Boris Johnson had with Ersel von der Leyen, |
| 1:20.0 | on Wednesday, the deadline was set for Sunday for yesterday to have some kind of |
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