welcome to first ft here today's top
stories a violent earthquake has struck
central Italy killing at least eight
people and destroying dozens of
buildings across the regions of lat co
Umbria and mark a the epicenter of the
quake which took place around three
thirty six a.m. local time was in the
northeast of the Lazio region the quake
was followed by a series of aftershocks
and was felt across central Italy as far
as Rome four of the world's biggest
banks have teamed up to develop a new
form of digital cash that they believe
will become an industry standard to
clear and settle financial trades over
blockchain the technology underpinning
Bitcoin the move is one of the most
concrete examples of banks cooperating
on a blockchain technology to improve
the efficiency of financial market
plumbing and wpp the world's biggest
advertising company said a sharp fall in
sterling following Britain's vote to
leave the EU may have helped a post
brexit recovery at the group in July
like for like revenue was up 4.6 percent
year-on-year and net sales were one
point nine percent higher for more of
today's top stories good after com Ford
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