The Financial Times today announced the launch of ‘View from the Markets’ on FT.com. Modelled on the popular ‘View from the Top’ videos, ‘View from the Markets’ is a markets-focused weekly video series featuring interviews with well-known investment strategists, economists, markets professionals and fund managers. Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management, is the first person to appear on ‘View from the Markets’.

The interviews will be conducted by Andrew Wood, FT Asia Markets and Investment Correspondent, and other FT correspondents. The first series, sponsored by IBM Asia, will kick off in Asia.

Victor Mallet, FT Asia editor, said: “FT.com is an efficient means of reaching our global audience. Online videos such as ‘View from the Markets’ are ideal. They enable us to deliver the FT’s quality, independent journalism in new formats to allow more and more FT users to access and enjoy our content.”

The launch of ‘View from the Markets’ follows recent enhancements on FT.com, including a new markets section with more data, better integration with the FT’s markets reporting and analysis, and an easier-to-use design; an expansion of its high-profile View from the Top CEO video interviews to include European and Asian CEOs; new blogs and technical enhancements to make the site faster to access.

FT.com is one of the world’s leading and fastest-growing business websites. In the last 12 months, FT.com monthly unique users have grown by more than 70 per cent to 6.5 million. Page views have risen by 50 per cent to 43 million whilst on-line revenues have risen by 40 per cent.

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For further information, please contact:

Jo Crosby, Financial Times, 020 7873 3811 or jo.crosby@ft.com

About the Financial Times

The Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business information companies, aims to provide a broad range of business information and services to the growing audience of internationally minded business people. The FT Group includes:

1.The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business newspapers, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed at 24 print sites across the globe, has a daily circulation of 441,219 (ABC figures, September 2007) and a readership of more than 1.3 million people worldwide.

2.FT.com is one of the world’s leading business information websites, and the internet partner of the FT newspaper. Since its relaunch in May 2002, the website has continued to be the definitive home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. FT.com attracts 5.35 million unique monthly users generating 43 million page views (ABC electronic figures, March 2007). FT.com has 100,000 subscribers.

3.The FT Group’s pan-European network of national business newspapers and online services including France’s leading business newspaper and website, Les Echos and lesechos.fr. In February 2000, the FT launched a new German language newspaper, FT Deutschland, with a fully integrated online business news and data service.

4.Through FT Interactive Data, the FT Group is one of the world’s leading sources of securities pricing and specialist financial information to global institutional, professional and individual investors. Its products include eSignal, an online realtime streaming quotation service for brokers and active traders.

5.FT Business, which produces specialist information on the retail, personal and institutional finance industries. It publishes the UK’s premier personal finance magazine, Investors Chronicle, and The Banker, Money Management and Financial Adviser for professional advisers.

6.The Mergermarket Group, whose products and services provide the global advisory and corporate communities with intelligence and analysis. With regional head offices in London, New York and Hong Kong and 200 journalists in 46 locations worldwide, reliable and validated proprietary intelligence and historical data is provided via the mergermarket, dealReporter, Debtwire and wealthmonitor on-line platforms.

7.The Financial Times Group also has a stake in a number of joint ventures, including;

•FTSE International, a joint venture with the London Stock Exchange.

•Vedomosti, Russia’s leading business newspaper and a partnership venture with Dow Jones and Independent Media

•A 50% stake in BDFM, publishers of South Africa’s leading financial newspapers and websites.

•A 50% stake in The Economist Group, which publishes the world’s leading weekly business and current affairs journal.

•A 13.85% stake in Business Standard, one of India’s leading financial newspapers.

The FT Group is part of Pearson plc, the international education and information company.