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EU authorities have agreed to new standards that could result in up to 900 more derivatives trades a year being channelled through EU-based clearing houses, instead of London, not five

The book Empireworld refers to an estimation of the indigenous population of the Caribbean as numbering 3mn in 1700, falling to 30,000 by 2000, not just on the island of Barbados as wrongly stated in a book review on January 27

The UK Depart­ment for Lev­el­ling Up, Hous­ing and Com­munit­ies has reduced the num­ber of long-term empty homes by more than 38,000 since 2010

Asylum applic­a­tions to EU coun­tries peaked at above 1.4mn in 2015-16 and were above 1mn in the past 12 months

Lloyd’s List has estim­ated that if the EU car­bon price remains between €80 to €90 per tonne of CO₂, total tax rev­en­ues from the cov­er­age of ship­ping by the EU’s emis­sions trad­ing scheme could amount to more than €7bn annu­ally

An art­icle on Octo­ber 23 implied that the cap­ital raise in Eviden had been agreed based on a share price of €15, when in fact it was agreed based on a valu­ation of €20 a share

The On Wall Street column on Decem­ber 16 wrongly referred to some $70bn of gains made by Michael Dell and Sil­ver Lake from acquir­ing VMware and rel­ist­ing it

The Labour party donor moved to the UK 35 years ago, rather than 13 years ago as incorrectly stated in February 17/18’s FT Weekend Magazine

Europe accoun­ted for 10.6 per cent of global IPO pro­ceeds in 2023, rather than 5 per cent

A new 30-year trend extrapolated by European earth observation agency Copernicus showed global warming could breach 1.5C above the pre-industrial average by February 2034, not February 2024 as wrongly stated in the text accompanying a graphic on