Finance&Markets is a specialised, visual-first investor news and leadership community. Fusing contemporary angles and presentational elegance with rigorous, expert perspective. All exclusively for new global markets.

F&M is part of Toneboard Ventures, a leading communications investor. Together we have created a members-fuelled, fiercely independent and multifaceted platform: a financial news brand collection and executive network. A research showcase and recognition house. And a trusted activations partner.

What brings it all together? F&M's steadfast commitment to expanding allocations, access, and mindshare for new global markets and their participants.

Powered by members — the world's leading investors and financiers, wealth advisors, innovators and professional partners — F&M realises these goals through several products and channels.

Intelligence

Our daily editorial provides news, insights, and views tracking the biggest plays and players, data and debates in new global markets driven by our member contributor model (see below) and newsroom.

From fall 2026 F&M will introduce our monthly e-magazine, F&M Fulcrum, providing a selection of in-depth analysis, profiles, recurring series, and thematic content assets exclusively by and for our board members. These showcases will be delivered in the same visual-first format as our news.

Membership at Finance&Markets

Our F&M membership-contributor concept provides the space for the world's investment talent to share news, research, and opinion, as well as participate in connectivity and participation opportunities.

Research & Recognition

F&M's quantitative industry research and recognition calendar spotlighting global markets excellence and innovation in programmes throughout the year. The R&R series will launch in fall 2026.

Toneboard Studio

Our partnership and corporate communications studio leveraging decades of team experience and purpose-built to help players confidently emerge, engage, and excel.

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Why We're Here

Finance&Markets was founded in a moment of fast-shifting and tremendous change increasingly tilted towards new corners of global markets.

Yet whether in its scale, modalities or mindshare the world's investment in these new economies and modalities not only hasn't caught up; it simply isn't close. F&M is here to change that.

Put plainly, our community believes in

  1. Balance: Today's concentration is generally unhealthy, if not also unjustified.
  2. Elegance: New global markets and asset classes struggle deserve better narrative formation and uptake, aligned to their increasing attractiveness in both absolute and relative terms.
  3. A Shifted Mindset: That today's evolving conditions require stronger, more sophisticated and more collaborative embrace of complexity and openness of mind than ever before.

At F&M, discerning investors discover – and define – the clarity, detail, and expertise that drive new markets' investment forward. By both tracking their pulse and unpacking their salience our content stream, with the above beliefs in mind, helps these markets get discovered and helps participants sustain new edge in the ever-hotter competition for capital and ideas across global finance.

Everything here - from news and channels, to listings and awards, to our live and creative capabilities - is designed and dedicated exclusively to seizing this opportunity. As a conduit to amplify investment story, draw important distinctions, showcase excellence, and ultimately drive allocation and greater affinity for the markets we cover.

That is our reason for being. To foster a better investment world. One more open and unafraid, moving plus ultra. Further beyond.

Platform at a Glance

What We Are - And Aren't

Theta is committed to championing new markets' stories. Ours is an advocative mission. So our values matter.

Our team's heritage comes from investment communication and advisory; we know what is valuable to audiences and to our members. We also deeply respect the role and added value of independent journalism and rigour.

What we are, then, and what makes us different, hangs on the following tentpoles:

  1. Editorial and Presentational Quality. Many financial publications, particularly those focused on new markets and asset classes, aren't remotely built for the 21st Century. F&M is rich in detail, beautiful, and obviously visual-first and mobile-first. Not just another asset or piece of coverage, you'll be proud to share our product. And we do this while retaining disciplined publishing standards. Call us old fashioned; for us, what's old is new.
  2. Strength in the Collective. We believe participation and diversity of viewpoints is essential to make the case and mitigate herding and groupthink often alive in today's markets.
  3. Authority. We don't take ourselves too seriously. But we believe there are sufficient sources of memes, 'casts, Substacks, and other content flavours for jaunty takes and funny nonsense already. While these have their place (and are no doubt great to drive superficial engagement), we stay above that fray. Targeted authority and high-intent, not rote clicks, are what matter to our members and therefore to our platform.
  4. Independence. We continue to observe, with concern, the rise of self-publishing, fake reporters, and AI-driven content platforms in our industry eroding fair dealing and the truth. To say nothing of questionable ethics, we believe investors deserve better, end stop. Therefore nothing gets published on F&M without independent, human eyes editing it first. Nothing.

Our team is always open to chatting about these values and choices, and how we implement them in our practises.

Our Verticals & Coverage

Finance

Our flagship Finance section includes investment, markets, and wealth segments. We focus on new global investment across public, private and alternative asset classes, including fund leadership and strategy innovation, the modalities and thematics now growing in stature, and the ways globally-based institutions and allocators, themselves, increasingly bear influence on markets today.

Markets includes traditional investment banking practises including capital markets and deal financing, innovation in market making and venues that globalises access and capital, as well as core sectors and commercial banking important to new global economies. In this space we also add multilateral and blended finance.

Finally, our wealth coverage eyes each of these from a specialised individual and family perspective, including portfolio management and solutions, private banking capabilities, a specific focus on global real estate, and the culture of global wealth.

Professional

F&M Pro tracks the latest across law and regulation, management consulting disciplines, as well as talent and knowledge – how they enable our financial industries and are fast-maturing to meet global needs. Here, we also cover investor engagement and perception (public relations and affairs) partners and their widening role.

Tech

F&M Tech takes a fairly specific interest in two areas: venture fintech and emerging enterprise. Our venture coverage includes both VC and startups' landscapes focused on institutional finance and infrastructure. Emerging enterprise tracks strategies and developments surrounding hyperscale, Web3, and cyber risks at a firm and market level.

Global Macro

Covering the investment teams and expert firms that shape and measure our sense of the world, Theta Affairs eyes macro, geoeconomics, politics, and emerging risks from a holistic and interconnected perspective – all disciplines both ever-growing and responding to tectonic shifts. We take an additional view onto the data stack and science behind these practises, as well.

Research & Recognition

F&M is proud to present the industry's first global recognition calendar featuring a full slate of awards, executive spotlights, and tables across our core verticals, and exclusively focused on new global markets.

These include our Talis listings judged for excellence, innovation, and impact among individual leaders; our Threshold company awards; and our specialised League Tables, Rankings and Guides.

Calendars

The inaugural series will launch in fall 2026 through the end of the year, and will subsequently follow a monthly calendar throughout 2027.

Entry & Fees

Listings and awards nominations, as well as collateral for tables, rankings and guides, can be submitted through our dedicated portal along with payment. In keeping with our mission, fees are aligned and limited only to our production costs. For 2026, all programs are set at $295 and discounted for our members.

Adjudication

Our Research Directorate is the responsible body independently overseeing the full range of annual programmes, including selections and oversight of our methodology. Advisors are senior leaders well-placed from around our industries; more information is available upon request.

The F&M Studio

At F&M we've rooted our advisory and studio in a client-centricity and advocacy mindset for over a decade. Therefore, as positioned both on and beyond Theta, we provide members a suite of communications services and branded activations for the pioneers shaping the full range of our covered industries.

This financial communications advisory and content arm crafts bespoke engagement strategy, media campaigns, core branding and advocacy for organisations serving a range of audiences – both D2C and B2B. The studio also serves the production arm for our showcase partnership content and our live experiential settings.

All of our capabilities here are designed in keeping with our mission: to extend the influence of new investment modalities and geographies, the firms serving them, and leaders who champion them.

The practice team leverages collective decades of investor marketing, digital and reputation management experience, with successes in market entry and introducing investment products, campaigns securing premium placements, and stewarding image for the world's largest asset managers, investment banks, private funds, law firms and technologists.

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