Financial Times
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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 780,000. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving almost half of total traffic. The FT provides a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to a growing audience of internationally minded professionals.
The FT group comprises the FT newspaper and FT.com, Financial Publishing, FT Chinese, FT Labs, Medley Global Advisors (MGA), ExecSense and the New York Institute of Finance.
Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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