FT Alphaville is a daily news and commentary service for
financial market
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professionals created by the ''
Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Ni ...
'' in October 2006.
The founding editor was
Paul Murphy. He was succeeded in 2017 by Izabella Kaminska. Kaminska resigned in 2022 and was replaced by Robin Wigglesworth.
The service includes an
email
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-based morning financial brief, a blog, and two
message boards, one called "Markets Live" and another, added two years after its founding,
called "The Long Room ". Commenting on the blog or participating on either of the message boards require registration; the Long Room is limited to current and retired financial professionals.
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FT Alphaville won a ''Harold Wincott Award'' for 2007, in the category of
online journalism.
It
subsequently won Best Business Blog in both the Judge's Panel and the People's Voice categories, at the 2008
Webby Awards.
Camp Alphaville
On 2 July 2014 the FT Alphaville team organised Camp Alphaville, a one-day finance festival in the heart of the city, in which over 500 people took part. The camp featured a main stage that hosted rolling discussions and interviews ranging from the future of money to "nuts markets". More focused discussions were held on the sidelines in inflatable igloos. Speakers and attendees were also able to beam into the event via autonomous telepresence robots.
The event returned in 2015, and in 2016 under the name of "FT Festival of Finance".
Nomenclature
The service is called "Alphaville", in reference to "the City term 'Alpha', meaning 'absolute returns' … above and beyond the industry benchmark."
"The Long Room" is named after a dining room of a
City of London
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bar/restaurant on
Throgmorton Street
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History
It is named after Nicholas Thr ...
that used to be frequented by stockbrokers, bankers and insurance brokers when the
London Stock Exchange
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was located on
Threadneedle Street
Threadneedle Street is a street in the City of London, England, between Bishopsgate at its northeast end and Bank junction in the southwest. It is one of nine streets that converge at Bank. It lies in the ward of Cornhill.
History
The stree ...
.
See also
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Planet Money
References
External links
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