Financial News

Financial News
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner Dow Jones & Company
Publisher eFinancialNews
Editor Ben Wright[1]
Language English
Headquarters East Smithfield, London
Official website efinancialnews.com

The Financial News, is a financial newspaper and news website published in London. It is a weekly investment banking, fund management and securities industries newspaper, published by eFinancialNews Limited. Financial News was founded in 1996.

Financial news is owned by Dow Jones & Company, who acquired eFinancial News in 2007. The Dow Jones franchise also includes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's Magazine, Factiva and Marketwatch.

Since its founding in 1996 it has been in competition with the more diversified Financial Times (The FT carries both political and business news).

Titles

In addition to the publication of the Financial News, the company also operates:

Coverage

The newspaper's coverage is primarily Europe, UK-focused though it also has correspondents in New York. It is stratified by financial services industry, with major weekly sections on Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Trading & Technology, Merges & Acquisitions, Hedge Funds, Debt Markets, Equity Markets and Derivatives. Online coverage is structured in a similar way.

Circulation

The ABC Audited average circulation for the Financial News print edition for the period 01 July 2006 - 30 June 2007 was 19,772 an 5% increase on the previous year. The readership profile is highly educated and affluent professionals, mainly in the London-based financial services industries. The average annual income of Financial News readers is over 200,000 pounds sterling.

Visitors to the main website in May 2008 was 374,928. The average page views per month was about 1.5 million during this time.

FNO Mobile allows customers to access FNO content via any mobile device, including phones and BlackBerries.

References

  1. ^ "Contacts - About Us". Financial News. http://www.efinancialnews.com/about-us/contact-us. Retrieved February 20, 2012. 

External links

Official website