Press Digest-Financial Times - Aug 17

JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon has warned UK chancellor John Healey against creating a more hostile tax environment for banks, as the financial services sector prepares to embark on a major pre-Budget lobbying campaign.

The U.S. government has discussed new sanctions against Brazilian Supreme Court judge Justice Alexandre de Moraes, as a diplomatic crisis threatens to drag relations between the two countries to the lowest point in decades.

UK housing secretary Angela Rayner will on Monday announce changes to the national planning policy framework to make it impossible for developers to close down pubs unless there is “no reasonable prospect” of keeping them going.

U.S. President Donald Trump has told the Pentagon to scale back forthcoming joint military exercises with South Korea because they send a “hostile” message to North Korea, which he said was not threatening Washington.