Robert Smith
@bondhack.ft.com
Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times.
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‘We made a lot of money working together’: Jeffrey Epstein’s in-house trader revealed
[FREE TO READ] Private banker quietly became paedophile financier’s money manager in his final years
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🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
"Jeffrey Epstein was secretly pulling the strings at a key Rothschild bank" is a statement that would have had you branded a conspiracy theorist until recently.
It is a fairly accurate summary of our weekend FT story on the bombshell revelations in the Epstein files, however.
It is a fairly accurate summary of our weekend FT story on the bombshell revelations in the Epstein files, however.
Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
How the house of Rothschild became entangled with Epstein
Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild was in trouble. Ariane de Rothschild turned to Jeffrey Epstein
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein was secretly pulling the strings at a key Rothschild bank" is a statement that would have had you branded a conspiracy theorist until recently.
It is a fairly accurate summary of our weekend FT story on the bombshell revelations in the Epstein files, however.
It is a fairly accurate summary of our weekend FT story on the bombshell revelations in the Epstein files, however.
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One person close to the Will Lewis exit from the Washington Post told the FT: “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing". Lewis was spotted at a Super Bowl party on the same day as his newspaper was firing 300 staff.
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
One person close to the Will Lewis exit from the Washington Post told the FT: “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing". Lewis was spotted at a Super Bowl party on the same day as his newspaper was firing 300 staff.
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The FT’s evisceration of Mandelson is an entirely reasonable and proportionate response to someone raising their voice in the quiet carriage.
February 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
The FT’s evisceration of Mandelson is an entirely reasonable and proportionate response to someone raising their voice in the quiet carriage.
Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
How the house of Rothschild became entangled with Epstein
Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild was in trouble. Ariane de Rothschild turned to Jeffrey Epstein
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Fixed the Times magazine cover
February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Fixed the Times magazine cover
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February 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
According to Goldman's top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler, when it comes to Epstein the journalists doing public interest reporting are the "despicable" ones
www.ft.com/content/a07b...
www.ft.com/content/a07b...
Top Goldman lawyer referenced Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Russians’ in email
Exchanges are further evidence of Kathy Ruemmler’s apparent ties to convicted sex offender
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
According to Goldman's top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler, when it comes to Epstein the journalists doing public interest reporting are the "despicable" ones
www.ft.com/content/a07b...
www.ft.com/content/a07b...
Among some of the most unremittingly bleak material imaginable, the Epstein files contain amazing windows into how the 0.01% financialise anything they can.
This is a wonderfully detailed examination of Leon Black's art lending from the FT's wealth editor 👇🏻
This is a wonderfully detailed examination of Leon Black's art lending from the FT's wealth editor 👇🏻
I was searching the Epstein files for art-related matters and found a curious story about a Cezanne, a collector, a bank and a Swiss museum as.ft.com/r/ed451d71-d...
Epstein files show art market financialisation in full flow
[FREE TO READ] A Black mark on ‘Château Noir’
as.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Among some of the most unremittingly bleak material imaginable, the Epstein files contain amazing windows into how the 0.01% financialise anything they can.
This is a wonderfully detailed examination of Leon Black's art lending from the FT's wealth editor 👇🏻
This is a wonderfully detailed examination of Leon Black's art lending from the FT's wealth editor 👇🏻
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“Now Mandelson’s pantomime act has crashed into reality. At the same time as he was sharing an ice cream with me and fellow hacks, he was allegedly passing along sensitive market information to his pal, the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Epstein Shame Goes Way Beyond Mandelson
A little over 15 years ago I was on a bus with Peter Mandelson touring England’s northern towns and cities. It was spring 2010 and the then-business secretary had been drafted in by Prime Minister Gor...
www.bloomberg.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
“Now Mandelson’s pantomime act has crashed into reality. At the same time as he was sharing an ice cream with me and fellow hacks, he was allegedly passing along sensitive market information to his pal, the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Private bankers are often bad investors, Jeffrey Epstein edition
"Barrett traded everything from currency options to shares ... (but) appears to have generated little in the way of trading profits, however, seemingly falling out with the financier due to his underwhelming performance"
"Barrett traded everything from currency options to shares ... (but) appears to have generated little in the way of trading profits, however, seemingly falling out with the financier due to his underwhelming performance"
🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
‘We made a lot of money working together’: Jeffrey Epstein’s in-house trader revealed
[FREE TO READ] Private banker quietly became paedophile financier’s money manager in his final years
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Private bankers are often bad investors, Jeffrey Epstein edition
"Barrett traded everything from currency options to shares ... (but) appears to have generated little in the way of trading profits, however, seemingly falling out with the financier due to his underwhelming performance"
"Barrett traded everything from currency options to shares ... (but) appears to have generated little in the way of trading profits, however, seemingly falling out with the financier due to his underwhelming performance"
🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
‘We made a lot of money working together’: Jeffrey Epstein’s in-house trader revealed
[FREE TO READ] Private banker quietly became paedophile financier’s money manager in his final years
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
🚨EPSTEIN'S SECRET FAMILY OFFICE REVEALED 🚨
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
Paul Barrett was Jeffrey Epstein's longtime private banker at JPMorgan
What has never been reported until now: he set up a family office to trade on Epstein's behalf in the last years of the sex offender's life as.ft.com/r/8101f34a-f...
Reposted by Robert Smith
“I would love to take photos of you in a Snow White costume. You can get it from the costume store,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote to a woman three weeks before Jes Staley's now infamous email: “that was fun. Say hi to Snow White”
Our scoop below 👇
Our scoop below 👇
Jeffrey Epstein asked an unidentified woman to buy a Snow White costume just weeks before former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s infamous exchange with the convicted sex offender about the Disney character.
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email
Former Barclays chief has insisted he had no recollection of what Disney character reference was about
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“I would love to take photos of you in a Snow White costume. You can get it from the costume store,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote to a woman three weeks before Jes Staley's now infamous email: “that was fun. Say hi to Snow White”
Our scoop below 👇
Our scoop below 👇
Jeffrey Epstein asked an unidentified woman to buy a Snow White costume just weeks before former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s infamous exchange with the convicted sex offender about the Disney character.
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email
Former Barclays chief has insisted he had no recollection of what Disney character reference was about
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Jeffrey Epstein asked an unidentified woman to buy a Snow White costume just weeks before former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s infamous exchange with the convicted sex offender about the Disney character.
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
🤯 story from @kadhim.bsky.social, @ortenca.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6a76...
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’
Some 👀 exchanges between the head of the elite law firm and the deceased sex offender in this just published FT story
as.ft.com/r/a8a809eb-9...
Some 👀 exchanges between the head of the elite law firm and the deceased sex offender in this just published FT story
as.ft.com/r/a8a809eb-9...
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’
[FREE TO READ] Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender
as.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’
Some 👀 exchanges between the head of the elite law firm and the deceased sex offender in this just published FT story
as.ft.com/r/a8a809eb-9...
Some 👀 exchanges between the head of the elite law firm and the deceased sex offender in this just published FT story
as.ft.com/r/a8a809eb-9...
NEW: Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s, despite the firm having previously said it “never did any business” with the child sex offender. as.ft.com/r/eeb49ab9-9...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
[FREE TO READ] New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
as.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:57 PM
NEW: Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s, despite the firm having previously said it “never did any business” with the child sex offender. as.ft.com/r/eeb49ab9-9...
Reposted by Robert Smith
Lord Peter Mandelson was sent money directly from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as early as 2003, according to new files released by US government
The files record three payments in 2003/4 from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts of $25,000 each, all mentioning Mandelson
www.ft.com/content/1728...
The files record three payments in 2003/4 from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts of $25,000 each, all mentioning Mandelson
www.ft.com/content/1728...
Jeffrey Epstein sent Peter Mandelson $75,000, documents show
Newly released files include three payments from disgraced financier’s JPMorgan account to former UK power broker
www.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Lord Peter Mandelson was sent money directly from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as early as 2003, according to new files released by US government
The files record three payments in 2003/4 from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts of $25,000 each, all mentioning Mandelson
www.ft.com/content/1728...
The files record three payments in 2003/4 from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts of $25,000 each, all mentioning Mandelson
www.ft.com/content/1728...
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This mf was trading JPYKRW forwards from his Gmail account? I’m absolutely losing it.
Amazingly, seems that Epstein traded sovereign CDS from his gmail account.
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This mf was trading JPYKRW forwards from his Gmail account? I’m absolutely losing it.
Reposted by Robert Smith
So disappointing to see JPYKRW in the Epstein files
Amazingly, seems that Epstein traded sovereign CDS from his gmail account.
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
So disappointing to see JPYKRW in the Epstein files
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I hate to say this, but he also seems to have traded it well. On Jan 20 in 2016, BCB held rates, to which markets (amazingly enough) reacted rationally, treating it not as politically inspired but as an end to a contested dominance pissing match where high real rates were blowing up debt dynamics.
January 31, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I hate to say this, but he also seems to have traded it well. On Jan 20 in 2016, BCB held rates, to which markets (amazingly enough) reacted rationally, treating it not as politically inspired but as an end to a contested dominance pissing match where high real rates were blowing up debt dynamics.
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Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent much of my weekend so far perusing the Epstein files.
A little taken aback to see that someone once sent him a long article that @miles-johnson.bsky.social and I wrote on CDS shenanigans back in 2018!
A little taken aback to see that someone once sent him a long article that @miles-johnson.bsky.social and I wrote on CDS shenanigans back in 2018!
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent much of my weekend so far perusing the Epstein files.
A little taken aback to see that someone once sent him a long article that @miles-johnson.bsky.social and I wrote on CDS shenanigans back in 2018!
A little taken aback to see that someone once sent him a long article that @miles-johnson.bsky.social and I wrote on CDS shenanigans back in 2018!
Reposted by Robert Smith
I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
January 31, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
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I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Big day for subjects of my financial shenanigans stories running into trouble with the law
January 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Big day for subjects of my financial shenanigans stories running into trouble with the law
Big day for subjects of my financial shenanigans stories running into trouble with the law
January 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Big day for subjects of my financial shenanigans stories running into trouble with the law