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Newsletters
Four letters from the Bank Season desks: a pre-open brief, a rates letter, a weekend long read and a monthly note on managing money.
Each newsletter is written by a named member of staff and edited to the same standard as the site. None of them is an automated digest of headlines, and none carries advertising inside the editorial text. Send times are New York time and hold on scheduled trading days.
Bank Season newsletters
| Newsletter | Cadence | Send time | Written by |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Open | Weekdays | 6:45 a.m. ET | Mara Ellison |
| Duration | Tuesday and Thursday | 4:30 p.m. ET | Clara Nwosu and Daniel Okonjo |
| The Long Position | Saturday | 9:00 a.m. ET | Arthur Benn |
| Compound | First Thursday monthly | 7:00 a.m. ET | Naomi Feld |
All four are free. Professional subscribers receive The Open at 6:15 a.m. ET.
The Open
A pre market brief that lands before the US open, covering the overnight session in Asia and Europe, the futures picture, and the two or three things on the day's calendar that could actually move something. It ends with the release schedule and the consensus estimate for each print, so you know what the market is already expecting before the number arrives.
Duration
A rates letter for readers who care about the curve rather than the index. Twice a week it walks through auction results, front end pricing, the spread between what policymakers have signalled and what the market is discounting, and the plumbing stories that rarely make a front page. Written jointly by the policy and macro desks, with the disagreements left in.
The Long Position
One essay on Saturday morning, usually between two and three thousand words, taking a single question further than a weekday story allows. Arthur Benn writes it from the columnist's chair, which means it argues a position, dates it, and returns to the ones that aged badly.
Compound
A monthly letter on the mechanics of managing your own money: portfolio construction, fees, tax drag, private market access and the arithmetic that gets skipped in most coverage of those subjects. It names products only to explain a structure, and it carries no affiliate links of any kind.
What applies to all four
- No sponsored copy inside the editorial text. Where a letter carries advertising, it sits in a labelled block above or below the article.
- Your address is never sold, rented or shared with an advertiser.
- One click unsubscribe in every send, honoured immediately rather than within ten business days.
- A plain text version is available for every letter, and every letter is readable on the web at a permanent link.
- Corrections to a newsletter run in the next edition and on the web version the same day.
How to subscribe
Sign up with an email address from any newsletter page or from the footer of the site. A free account is enough for all four letters; no payment details are required. Preferences, including which letters you receive and whether you want plain text, are managed from a single page linked at the foot of every send.