Sialkot, Pakistan, produces 70% of the world's footballs. But only a select few manufacturers hold FIFA licenses. To earn certification, factories must pass a series of demanding performance tests and pay high licensing fees. We visited the Bola Gema factory to see what it takes to meet FIFA standards and how manufacturers are cashing in on...
For the remainder of the year, we’re going to see a sequence of extraordinary tech IPOs come to markets around the world. SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are all going to list with trillion-plus valuations, shaking up global equity indexes and putting to the test the thesis that AI is going to revolutionise the global economy, the FT’s Stephen Morris explains.
