'An inspiring success story.' Baroness Rona Fairhead CBEA RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST
DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS.They are just four letters on
an electronic ticker tape but FTSE has become a byword for money power influence and -
crucially after numerous financial crises - trust. How this organisation FTSE International
brought order to the financial system over several decades is a story of how capitalism
globalized and a data revolution transformed the investment industry. It is a story of how a
team of innovators seized an opportunity to build a business that today leads its field and
guides the fortunes of an astonishing $16 trillion of funds. It is a story that Mark Makepeace
founding Chief Executive of FTSE International knows better than anybody.FTSE is a ringside
seat on some of the biggest deals and biggest personalities in business and global politics
chronicling how the FTSE 100 was born behind-the-scenes rows with chief executives of some of
the world's largest companies political in-fighting diplomatic incidents and the ferocious
dealmaking that followed over 35 years of market boom and bust. 'FTSE is a story which should
inform and fascinate anyone interested in capital markets.' Sir Donald Brydon CBE
