How are banks dealing with the market chaos caused by coronavirus and the new oil price war? Also, Bob Diamond has appointed his flamboyant former right-hand man at Barclays, Rich Ricci, as chief executive of Panmure Gordon, the lossmaking UK stockbroker he bought two years ago. What are the two musketeers now up to? And we also hear from special guest Katie Murray, chief financial officer of RBS.

Contributors: Host, Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Nicolas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producers: Andrew Georgiades and Breen Turner.

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Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.

When credit markets seized up earlier in March, more than 130 companies rushed to their lenders to draw down at least $124bn of emergency credit lines to shore up cash, with Ford and General Motors drawing among the largest amounts. We look at how the auto industry is preparing for the economic uncertainty that lies ahead. With the FT's Peter Campbell and Gillian Tett.

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UN official warns that war-ravaged country cannot deal with an outbreak of the disease

Community is politically marginalised but makes up one-fifth of doctors and a quarter of nurses

Most mosques shuttered and gatherings banned as Islamic world prepares for holy month

Pandemic stopped protests in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon, but crisis likely to fuel fresh wave of unrest

Soaring fees, worthless degrees and dicey investments have hurt the economy

The US spends $3.6tn a year on health. Why does the pandemic threaten so many of its hospitals?

Rising number of low-paid staff are contracting Covid-19 or leaving posts as death toll mounts

Longest expansion in modern American history is also the weakest

Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries analysed by the FT

From business closures to movement restrictions, some countries’ policies show first signs of easing

Find any country in the customisable version of the Covid-19 trajectory charts

Donald Trump’s claims that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was source of outbreak belie scientific evidence

Pandemic is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies across the world

Beijing edits European opinion piece published in Chinese state-controlled media

Businesses like buying contemporary art to show off their forward-thinking and investment savvy. Fair enough – but it still sits oddly with artists’ desire to provoke and subvert  

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Fears over health systems prompt states to take early preventive measures

The continent is facing an humanitarian and economic catastrophe, reports David Pilling

Social distancing curbs mean August vote cannot be held, says electoral commission

Macron also backs calls for debt relief as he seeks to be seen as champion of continent’s interests

Join our campaign for clear pension charges - FT Money has been exploring the impossibility of comparing the costs of drawdown plans. The FT is calling on the pensions and advise industry to be transparent about charges to help people to shop around. In this week's show, FT Money Show presenter Claer Barrett interviews o the FT's pensions expert about our campaign. Next up, the spread of the coronavirus has given world stock markets a nasty turn - FT Moneys' new investment reporter, Madison Darbyshire, talks about how investors are reacting. And finally, to cheer listeners up a bit - James Max, our Rich People's Problems columnist is here to discuss a burning issue - the government's proposed ban on coal fires. 

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It's been a week of shock and awe for UK investors. Wednesday started with an emergency interest rate cut from the BoE. New chancellor Rishi Sunak then delivered a Budget full of emergency "first aid" measures to help workers, the self employed and small businesses survive the crisis - and some very unexpected news for wealthy pension savers. And in the meantime - stock markets around the world continue to experience deep falls as central banks work out how to respond to the coronavirus.

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Rwanda’s president says continent needs at least $100bn in foreign support to weather shock

Plea for increased humanitarian help has gone unanswered and funding is set to be cut further

Use of community health workers to identify cases draws heavily on experience battling tuberculosis and HIV

Vice-president makes suggestion even as number of deaths across the country spikes

Entertainment group scraps dividend as executives promise it will weather storm

Claer Barrett and Daniel Thomas hear readers’ experiences of accessing job retention scheme 

Finance minister also says companies cannot pay dividends while receiving government money 

Litigation battles, fear turns to lawsuits, and a data security flaw

But why didn’t the chancellor go the whole hog and scrap the tax taper altogether?

The ‘Mick Jagger of microbes’ on a life of fighting disease — and the severity of the current crisis

Group seeks to ‘protect capital structure’ as uncertainty swirls over Covid-19 impact

African nation vows to block decision it rejects as unjustified and illegal

Lusaka ups ante in dispute over shuttered copper mine

Group has halted work at number of mines due to pandemic

Pandemic puts more pressure on Masayoshi Son’s bet on beleaguered WeWork

Oil price collapse and crumbling health system put Latin American nation at risk

Flashpoint between Brazil’s populist leader and political establishment over response to virus

Region’s ‘Pink tide’ leaders see chance of revival as inequality and public health concerns take centre stage

Officials’ barbs come at a precarious time for Latin American country

Approval ratings for the billionaire president have more than doubled

Jeremy Corbyn unveiled 451 pages of leaked documents, which he claimed show details of trade talks between the UK and US. The Labour leader said the discussions included Washington's demand for providing access to the NHS for American healthcare companies.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index's collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

Big investors must adopt a tougher stance on balance sheet resilience

The ESG spotlight has turned to how companies treat their employees, customers and suppliers