FT Alphaville

For other uses, see Alphaville (disambiguation).
FT Alphaville
Web address ftalphaville.ft.com
Available in English
Owner Financial Times
Editor Paul Murphy
Launched 2006 (2006)

FT Alphaville is a daily news and commentary service for financial market professionals created by the Financial Times in October 2006.[1] The founding editor was Paul Murphy.

The service includes an email-based morning financial brief, a blog, and two message boards, one called "Markets Live" and another, added two years after its founding,[2] 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.[3]

FT Alphaville won an Harold Wincott Award for 2007, in the category of online journalism.[4][5] It subsequently won Best Business Blog in both the Judge's Panel and the People's Voice categories, at the 2008 Webby Awards.[5]

On July 2, 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.

Nomenclature

The service is called "Alphaville", in reference to "the City term 'Alpha', meaning 'absolute returns' … above and beyond the industry benchmark."[1] "The Long Room" is named after a dining room of a City of London bar/restaurant on Throgmorton Street[2][3] that used to be frequented by stockbrokers, bankers and insurance brokers when the London Stock Exchange was located on Threadneedle Street.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Financial Times Launches FT Alphaville". press release. 24-7PressRelease.com. October 25, 2006. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  2. 1 2 "FT Alphaville recreates City pub with new discussion zone". Press Gazette. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  3. 1 2 "About FT Alphaville". Retrieved 2009-05-02., from the FT Alphaville website
  4. ↑ "Press & Broadcasting Awards List of Winners". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  5. 1 2 "Financial Times' Alphaville scoops two Webby awards". Pearson PLC. 6 May 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  6. ↑ "The Throgmorton Restaurant". Retrieved 2009-05-02., from an ex-employee's website on the history of J. Lyons & Co.
  7. ↑ Coren, Giles (October 23, 2004). "Rules/Throgmorton's". Restaurant review. London: The Times. Retrieved 2009-05-02.

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