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Philip Stafford is the FT's digital finance news editor. He was previously the FT's correspondent for exchanges, trading and markets regulation. He has also covered stock markets, telecom and technology companies and breaking news. Before he joined the FT he worked at Bloomberg and FTMarketwatch. Prior to a career in journalism, he was a teacher in Japan.