PRESS DIGEST — Financial Times — September 18

Sept 18 (Reuters) — The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines Thames Water should be temporarily placed under public ownership, MPs say UK losing £1.3 million a day on nationalised steelworks UK Chancellor John Healey to urge Brussels to include UK in ‘Made in Europe’ policy US regulator opens markets to tokenised stock trading Overview Thames Water should be placed into temporary state ownership and current takeover talks with its creditors halted immediately, a cross-party parliamentary committee has urged. UK ministers’ rescue plan for the ailing steel industry was on Friday lambasted by MPs, who warned that the nationalisation of British Steel had already cost the taxpayer more than £500 million ($668.20 million) “without a clear end in sight”. British finance minister John Healey will on Friday urge EU finance ministers to avoid repeating the mistakes of a failed defence partnership with the UK and to design the bloc’s “Made in Europe” industrial policy to include Britain. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has green-lit trading in tokenised stocks in a move that is e