PRESS DIGEST-Financial Times - March 15

Headlines - Hong Kong to make first ministerial visit to UK in 3 years - KPMG stands by audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank - UK threatens developers over failure to sign building safety contract - Pfizer's revised EU COVID vaccine contract meets resistance Overview - Hong Kong's financial services secretary Christopher Hui, is planning to visit Britain in April, in the first ministerial-level trip from the territory to the UK in three years. - KPMG's U.S. boss, Paul Knopp, said the accounting firm stood behind its audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines

- Hong Kong to make first ministerial visit to UK in 3 years - KPMG stands by audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank

- UK threatens developers over failure to sign building safety contract - Pfizer's revised EU COVID vaccine contract meets resistance

Overview - Hong Kong's financial services secretary Christopher Hui, is planning to visit Britain in April, in the first ministerial-level trip from the territory to the UK in three years.

- KPMG's U.S. boss, Paul Knopp, said the accounting firm stood behind its audits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. - UK's housing secretary Michael Gove said he would initiate the first steps towards barring 11 developers from building and selling homes after they failed to sign a building safety contract before the deadline.

- Pfizer Inc agreed to extend its COVID-19 vaccine contract from 2023 to 2026 with the European Union and offered to cut the number of doses being supplied by 40%. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)