The Financial Times Group is a division of Pearson PLC, which provides a broad range of business information, news and services. It includes the Financial Times, FT.com, a 50% shareholding in The Economist, Mergermarket (an online intelligence reporting family) and numerous joint ventures including Vedomosti in Russia..

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The group’s companies include:

• the Financial Times
• the Mergermarket Group
• a number of joint ventures (The Economist Group, Vedemosti and BDFM)

The FT Group is part of Pearson.

The Financial Times

The FT is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.

The FT family of companies consists of:

• the FT newspaper and FT.com
• FT Chinese
• Medley Global Advisors (MGA)
• Financial Publishing
• FT Labs

Find out more about the FT family of companies.

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The Mergermarket Group

Mergermarket delivers leading intelligence and data electronically to financial institutions, corporations and their advisers.

The company combines historical news and data with proprietary, forward-looking insights and intelligence. Its products include:

• mergermarket
• dealReporter
• Debtwire
• wealthmonitor
• MergerID
• Infinata
• Xtract Research

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Joint ventures

The FT Group has a stake in a number of joint ventures, including:

• Vedomosti, Russia’s leading business newspaper and a partnership venture with Dow Jones and Independent Media
• a 50 per cent stake in BDFM, publishers of South Africa’s leading financial newspapers and websites including Business Day and Financial Mail
• a 50 per cent stake in The Economist Group, which publishes the world’s leading weekly business and current affairs journal.

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