Good morning from the Financial Times.
Today is Thursday, February 19th.
And this is your FT News Briefing.
JP Morgan wants to be the board of Pieces Bank.
and the guilt market is wary of the UK's defense funding plans.
Plus, an investment banker is suing her former employer over the right to get some shut-eye.
I think this is where this really interesting like generational question comes in,
where sort of perhaps an older generation might say,
this is how it's always been done, kind of get used to it.
I'm Mark Filippino and here's the news you need to start your day.
JPMorgan Chase is in talks to provide banking services to the US-led Board of Peace.
The body is set to have its first formal meeting today,
and it was originally conceived to help create a new governance framework for Gaza in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas.
But US President Donald Trump has increasingly presented it as an alternative to the UN.
Two people familiar with the situation said JPMorgan was discussing providing services such as facilitating payments to and from the board.
officials from the Trump administration and from the bank declined to comment on any discussions.
It's an interesting twist as the president recently sued JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon.
Trump claims the lender closed his bank accounts for political reasons.
The UK government needs to raise more money to fill a hole in its armed forces budget.
But there's a problem.