Financial Times launches a new podcast, *The Story of Money*, aiming to prove that history matters in finance. Hosted by FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth, each episode digs into ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped global markets. Listeners hear about 19th‑century frontier banking, ancient Mesopotamian debt jubilees and modern credit‑derivative origins, and regulatory reforms that still echo today.

By tracing patterns from unregulated banks to the 2008 meltdowns, the show argues that recurring manias drive both opportunity and disaster. Production team led by Lulu Smyth and Michela Tindera ensures rigorous research, while executive producers Flo Phillips and Manuela Saragosa shape editorial direction. Investors can glean clues about future market cycles from these historical case studies and link them to present policy.

The podcast is distributed through FT Alphaville channels and features original music by Breen Turner, with sound engineering that matches the brand’s premium standard. For professionals seeking to contextualise current asset‑allocation choices, the series offers a concise, story‑driven lens on finance’s repeatable dynamics. Financial Times hopes the series becomes a go‑to reference for market analysts, for buy‑side and sell‑side firms.