Readings/content links include a wide-ranging podcast interview with Niall Ferguson, a revisit of the Sergei Magnitsky case, a Q&A with James Sassoon, Marc Rubinstein on the evolution of Paytm and the findings from the shareholder-commissioned report into collusion between Toshiba, the Japanese government and the former investment head of the GPIF to influence board nominations last year.

• Niall Ferguson: A general theory of catastrophe.
• The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Questions cloud case behind US sanctions.
• Quartz: James Sassoon, the golden era dealmaker.
• Marc Rubinstein: Paytm from idea to IPO.
• WSJ: Toshiba, Japan officials teamed up against foreign shareholders, report finds (a copy of the full investigation report is available here).

If you have a bit more time and interest, embedded below is a long but fascinating interview with Jack Weatherford (a cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus at Macalester College) on Mongolia and his book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: