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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, September 5th and this is your FT News Briefing.

UK banks want their employees back in the office. A shortage of accountants is causing problems

in the US and a new FT podcast investigates a controversial Russian banker who fled to the US.

As I started making calls on the story to people I known from when I was reporting in Russia at the

time, it just became clear that the story was much more curious. Plus, Brazil's former president,

Yara Bolsonaro, is caught up in a jewelry scandal. I'm Josh Gabbardweil, in for Mark

Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Some British banks are trying to bring about an end to the work from home, Yara.

Starting this week, Lloyd's Banking Group is requiring staff to come into the office at

least two days a week and throwing in free food to lure them back. HSBC and the US Bank City

have already told their workers in the UK they must be in the office at least three days a week.

Bank executives and managers say it's necessary to increase productivity,

that's especially as they head into September, a typically busy month in capital markets after the

summer ball. There's an accounting crisis brewing in the United States and it's starting to have

some unexpected impacts on how the country's economy works day to day. The problem,

there just aren't enough auditors to go around, mostly because it's really hard to become an

accountant. Now, a growing movement is trying to make it easier. The FT's US accounting editor,

Steven Foley told us more. We have a dramatic decline in the number of people taking the exam to qualify

as an accountant and that is kind of the knock on consequence of there being fewer students

going to university because of demographic trends and fewer of those taking accounting degrees.

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