The Story of Money

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FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped the history of finance.

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Sep 22, 2021 · 1 min
Trailer: Inside ESG
Behind the Money presents a special 5-part series produced in partnership with the FT’s Moral Money team that goes inside the colossal sums flowing into sustainable investing.Trillions have flooded into funds that have made environmental, social and...
Jul 19, 2021 · 28 min
Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
Introducing the FT Tech Tonic podcast. You can subscribe and listen to the rest of the series here.From picking the best stocks to listening in on earnings calls, AI-powered systems are changing finance. But how big are the rewards, really? And what...
Dec 9, 2020 · 22 min
Financial services after Brexit
The City of London is home to some of the world’s biggest banks and busiest exchanges but the UK is just weeks away from leaving the EU single market and many questions about access to the bloc are still unresolved. Philip Stafford, editor of FT Tradin...
Dec 2, 2020 · 19 min
Moderna’s race to the vaccine
The Boston-based biotech eschewed a traditional approach to vaccine development, instead pitching its use of mRNA technology to investors. That pitch paid off this year as the company stands to be one of the first to bring a Covid-19 vaccine to market....
Nov 26, 2020 · 26 min
Reckoning with a colonial past
As protests following the killing of George Floyd in the US reverberated around the world this summer, Belgium, like many other countries, experienced its own reckoning: with a brutal colonial past, with the systemic racism that inhibits its black citi...
Nov 18, 2020 · 18 min
The unravelling of the Ant IPO
The IPO of Jack Ma's Ant Group would have been the largest in history: it was expected to raise $37bn at a valuation of $316bn. But just days before the stock market listing, China called it off. The FT's Ryan McMorrow and Hudson Lockett repo...
Nov 11, 2020 · 22 min
An economic uncoupling
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are beginning to resemble a new cold war. Could the complex supply chains built up over a generation that produce Apple's iPhone and other electronics soon be untangled? In this episode Kathrin Hille, the FT...
Nov 4, 2020 · 1 min
US election programming note
There is no episode of Behind the Money this week. Here is a preview of what we are working on for next week. Review Clips: C-SPAN, CNBC, Dallas Morning News
Oct 28, 2020 · 22 min
Direct lending rush
The pandemic docked Carnival’s cruise ships and grounded Bombardier’s planes. But when the companies were in need of cash, one went to the bond market and the other to a direct lender. Robert Smith, FT capital market correspondent and Nikou Asgari, FT ...
Oct 21, 2020 · 18 min
Bank profits in a recession
The market volatility of the past few months has been a boon for the trading divisions of many Wall Street banks, including Morgan Stanley. Laura Noonan, the FT’s US banking editor, explains how success in trading, and a focus on wealth management has ...
Oct 14, 2020 · 22 min
LVMH, Tiffany and a case of buyer’s remorse
Bernard Arnault built a €210bn luxury empire through an unflinching acquisition strategy that earned him the “wolf in cashmere” moniker. Tiffany, famous for its robin-egg blue boxes and diamond engagement rings, was meant to be the jewel atop his LVMH ...
Oct 7, 2020 · 19 min
Mafia high finance
While reporting on the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy this year, Rome correspondent Miles Johnson discovered an equally concerning story in the country’s south. Italy’s most powerful organised crime group, the ‘Ndrangheta, had infiltrated local h...
Sep 30, 2020 · 57 sec
We're back with a new season
Episodes will be released weekly starting Wednesday October 7.
Jul 14, 2020 · 22 min
Wirecard: how to find a €2bn hole
In September 2014, the FT’s Dan McCrum received a tip about a fast-growing German fintech group, Wirecard. Over the next couple of years Dan and his colleagues uncovered the secret behind t...
Jun 26, 2020 · 16 min
Rent, real estate and the commercial mortgage market in the age of coronavirus
In the US, commercial mortgage backed securities are a $1.2tn market, and an integral part of how banks lend to commercial property owners. But as the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns changed almost every sector of the economy, commercial real estate ...
Jun 13, 2020 · 22 min
A history of police funding
When a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, it was as if a fire was ignited. His death, along with the killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery have sparked the most widespread protests in the US since 1968. Hundreds of thousands of peop...
Jun 9, 2020 · 18 sec
A programming note
An update on this week's episode
May 26, 2020 · 19 min
The private equity bet that coronavirus cut short
Last December executives at the Carlyle Group worked into the night to sign what they imagined would be one of the private equity firm’s most enduring deals. In 2020, however, there may be no such thing as a stable business. Carlyle is now trying to wa...
May 12, 2020 · 18 min
When coronavirus hit America's meat industry
This was supposed to be a record year for the US meat industry. But when coronavirus hit the meat-packing plants, it exposed a vulnerable link in the supply chain. We take a look at how our meat gets from the farm to the supermarket, and ask what the f...
Apr 28, 2020 · 21 min
Missing out on the US small business rescue
The Trump administration’s small business bailout programme has been plagued by problems from the start, with complaints that large companies crowded out the kinds of small enterprises and independent contractors it was designed to help. With a fresh r...

The Story of Money

Trailer: Inside ESG

Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant

Financial services after Brexit

Moderna’s race to the vaccine

Reckoning with a colonial past

The unravelling of the Ant IPO

An economic uncoupling

US election programming note

Direct lending rush

Bank profits in a recession

LVMH, Tiffany and a case of buyer’s remorse

Mafia high finance

We're back with a new season

Wirecard: how to find a €2bn hole

Rent, real estate and the commercial mortgage market in the age of coronavirus

A history of police funding

A programming note

The private equity bet that coronavirus cut short

When coronavirus hit America's meat industry

Missing out on the US small business rescue