FT Alphaville is a daily news and commentary service for

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professionals created by the ''

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'' 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.

Overview

The service includes an

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-based morning financial brief, a

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, 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., from the FT Alphaville website

Camp Alphaville

On 2 July 2014 the FT Alphaville team organised Camp Alphaville, a one-day finance

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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". The long room ceased to exist in the late spring of 2022.

Naming

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

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bar/restaurant on

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that used to be frequented by

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s, bankers and insurance brokers when the

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was located on Threadneedle Street.

Recognition

FT Alphaville won a ''Harold Wincott Award'' for 2007, in the category of

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. It subsequently won Best Business Blog in both the Judge's Panel and the People's Voice categories, at the 2008

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