FT Weekend: The secret gamblers using AI to h...

For more than 170 years, Wells Fargo built a reputation as an all-American Main Street lender. Now, it is charting a new path and pushing into investment banking, something that many other banks have tried and failed to do. The FT’s US banking editor Joshua Franklin and US bankin ...  Show more

Saks Global, the parent company of the historic luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move occurred a little more than a year after the company purchased Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in a debt-fuelled takeover. T ...  Show more

This week, we go to a racetrack in Miami, Florida to drink some beers, place some bets, and discover how AI is changing the sport of horse racing. FT data journalist Oliver Roeder joins Lilah to talk about how the ancient sport is being upended by anonymous computer-assisted bets ...  Show more

Episode 147: Neal and Toby chat about the big hack that hit Las Vegas casinos causing millions of loss revenue for multiple days. Then, the Monday Night Letdown for the NY Jets has sparked the debate of whether the NFL should invest in grass fields instead of astroturf to protect ...  Show more

March Madness and the NCAA tournament are in full effect, and it’s one of the biggest sports betting times of the year.  Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show correspondent, Michael Kosta, and gambling industry reporter for ESPN, David Purdum, for a conversation about how p ...  Show more

The Kentucky Derby is coming up in early May, and it's time to get excited. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we talk to Bloomberg editor David Papadopoulos, who in addition to his day job has been betting on horses for a long time. In our discussion, he talked about great gamblin ...  Show more