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Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.

You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.

Recurring payments are merchant-initiated transactions that traditionally require storing card details, increasing security and PCI risks. Tokenization replaces sensitive card data with merchant-specific tokens and cryptograms, reducing fraud exposure, shrinking compliance scope, and improving authorization performance—making subscription payments more secure and efficient.

With minimum and living wage increases arriving in April 2026 and hiring slowing across the UK, SMEs can no longer rely on workforce expansion to drive growth. Instead, sustainable cost control will depend on reducing payroll inefficiencies, improving visibility, protecting retention, and tightening internal processes to absorb rising labour expenses without shrinking margins.

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.