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Financial Times publishes “The FT Year in Finance” special report

December 15 2008

Published: December 18 2008 16:32 | Last updated: December 18 2008 16:32

The Financial Times will tomorrow publish the ‘The FT Year in Finance’, a special report containing its best articles from an extraordinary year in the financial markets.

Lionel Barber, the Financial Times’ editor, has picked some of FT’s most outstanding coverage of the financial crisis, from January to December, which will be republished in the report.

Lionel Barber commented: “The past twelve months have seen unprecedented changes to the financial landscape and the Financial Times has been on hand to provide in-depth analysis and comment at every stage. This report brings together some of the most insightful coverage, providing our readers with a summary of the most important themes and debates brought about by the 2008 credit crunch.”

The report will contain articles from leading FT journalists and contributors from the past twelve months. Articles included in the special report include:

·The Worst Market Crisis in 60 Years by George Soros

·America’s Economy Risks Mother of all Meltdowns by Martin Wolf

·How a local squall might become a global tempest by Niall Ferguson

·Credit turmoil shows not all innovation has been successful by Gillian Tett

·Capitalism and the credit crunch by Samuel Brittan

·Broken brothers: how brinkmanship was not enough to save Lehman by Henny Sender

·Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us by David Blake

·The vision thing by Chris Giles

·The crisis is redefining our leaders by Gideon Rachman

·Why agreeing a new Bretton Woods is vital and so hard by Martin Wolf

·Broken banks put state back in the driving seat by Philip Stephens

The special report is available online at http://www.ft.com/reports/year-in-finance where a wider selection of articles, not originally selected, will be available, as well as those included in the special report. As well as articles, the best videos from the last 12 months will also be included in a dedicated online package.

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For further information, please contact:

Kristina Eriksson, Financial Times, +44 20 7873 4961 or kristina.eriksson@ft.com

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