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Robin Wigglesworth
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Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
JPMorgan’s new New York HQ has a bar called Morgan’s, where they serve Guinness with custom foam showing the building.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Chatbots as a luxury good.

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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
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November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s just nice to see a hyper-succesful prop trading firm win for a change. on.ft.com/3JPTJXJ
You won, Jane Street. Enjoy the t-shirts, we hope they make you happy
Quants conquer FT Alphaville NYC pub quiz on third try — how would YOU have fared?
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November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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And we’re off!
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“It is hard to imagine the world deploying $5 trillion of capital without at least some hiccups.” on.ft.com/43S8CiY
‘The global data centre and AI build-out will be an extraordinary and sustained capital markets event’
Inside JPMorgan’s big data centre report
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Did you ever see an elephant fly
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I've been, done, seen about everything
When I’ve seen snow fall in New York before Oslo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Who watches the credit watchmen? @tobyn.bsky.social does.

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Rating the rating data of credit raters
Deep-diving into Form NRSRO Exhibit 1 filings
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Um ...
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A controversial, low-conviction, Austrian-lite argument about money markets and central bank balance sheets on a Friday afternoon.

In other words, classic alphaville clickbait. on.ft.com/4oWd4W3
Maybe some repo ructions could be a good thing?
A defence of even more quantitative tightening
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November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sweet gig covering venture capitalists —> job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
West Coast Financial Correspondent
San Francisco
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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🚨Why are people being mean about Egan-Jones?
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Why are people being mean about Egan-Jones?
Private credit ratings under scrutiny
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November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Everything's collateral if you're brave enough.

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Utah’s First Brands whale even leased the office furniture
A non-bank lender with the motto ‘been there, leased that’ finds out
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 on.ft.com/47shez1
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
‘Best way to describe the market is bonkers’ on.ft.com/4qK7lV3
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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M&A analysis, Buzzfeed style

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2,506 takeover candidates: ranked!
[FREE TO READ] Sort of, but not really
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hey New York, your month just keeps getting better:

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We’re doing a pub quiz, in New York City, on 11 November. Get your tickets NOW!
Back in quizness
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November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The private credit equivalent of autopilot disengaging one second before the crash.

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Blackstone’s alternative narratives
[FREE TO READ] Three private credit bosses walk into a committee room…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
From this summer, apropos of nothing. on.ft.com/3ZPr6P3
Palantir is nuts. When’s the crash?
An AI darling faces its dusky interregnum
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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM