Announcements

The Financial Times’ world-class news and expert analysis is now available on FactSet, providing the global investment community with easier access to business critical intelligence within their workflow. The partnership will bring FT headlines directly to the desktops of FactSet’s 49,000+ users globally.

With the integration of the FT’s content on the FactSet platform, financial professionals are able to move seamlessly between FactSet’s analytics and the FT’s news and opinions – saving time and making more informed decisions by connecting news stories with data. All FactSet customers will see headlines of FT articles and be able to link to FT.com to read the full article. Those with an FT corporate licence will have the added benefit of being able to view the full article within the FactSet platform.

Hello everyone and many thanks for those kind words of introduction. I am absolutely thrilled to be standing here today, in front of you all, receiving this honorary degree. Although, I must admit that the use of the word “honor” makes me wince. If anyone deserves to be honored here today it is not me, who has arrived for a day – but instead the students who have worked so hard to get this degree, over so many years; and the families who have supported them. You are the real honorees here today, and to each of you I offer my hearty, humble congratulations and my applause.

Now, I expect that some of you in the audience today might be wondering why it is that I am standing at this podium, here in Citi field. After all, I am not American. I did not go to Baruch, or any American college. I certainly never played for the Mets and do not aspire to run New York, like Christine Quinn, last year’s speaker. Instead, as you may have guessed from my accent, I am British – or, more accurately, I am a global citizen, since I have spent most of my life working outside the UK, first as an anthropologist and then as a journalist for the Financial Times, which is one of the world’s leading global news organizations.

Tailored for the active news consumer, fastFT delivers up-to-the-minute reporting and commentary in short, sharp and informed dispatches – giving FT readers the edge they expect and the agenda-setting analysis they rely on. It expands and deepens the FT’s existing content offerings – from breaking and investigative news, opinion and analysis to blogs, interactive journalism and videos – by adding a live and dynamic layer of news and insight.

Staffed by a dedicated team of journalists around the world, it will be updated 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and supplemented with exclusive content from the FT’s renowned network of journalists and guest contributors.

Sir Samuel Brittan awarded inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wincott Foundation

Sir Samuel Brittan, noted Financial Times economic commentator, has won the first ever Wincott Lifetime Achievement Award. The judges said Sir Samuel never failed to “illuminate economic issues in a way that is refreshing, insightful and often unexpected.”

The Financial Times today announces its media partnership with Founders Forum, a community for leading global entrepreneurs, inspiring CEOs and key investors in media and technology.

Now in its 8th year, Founders Forum is a two day event that brings together a dynamic group of 1000 digital entrepreneurs, giving world leaders an opportunity to find and highlight future technologies and inventions that will change future business.