New York Reporter at FT Alphaville
Greater New York City Area
New York Reporter at FT Alphaville
Greater New York City Area
Business reporter with a keen interest in markets and macroeconomics, and in the intersection of finance and technology.
Work: Credit and derivatives, credit default swaps, high-yield bonds, leveraged loans, private equity, hedge funds, structured finance and securitisation, subprime, Alt-A, mortgages, GSEs (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), bond insurers and financial guarantors, emerging markets (Africa, Latin America, Caribbean)
Play: Business and politics of sport (esp. football); web 2.0; digital/social/new media; social networks; online communities; Caribbean political economy, culture and politics.
(Writing and Editing industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
FT Alphaville is an award-winning blog aimed at financial services professionals and at anyone with a keen interest in financial markets.
My colleagues are Paul Murphy (FT Alphaville editor, based in New York), Gwen Robinson (Tokyo), Neil Hume, Izabella Kaminska and Tracy Alloway (London)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PSON; Newspapers industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Started at the FT in 2006 as a graduate trainee journalist on the Markets desk in London. Have since worked in Tokyo and New York, writing primarily for the companies and markets pages and the web.
debt capital markets, emerging markets, web 2.0, social networks, media, technology, football, business and politics of sport, GTD, moleskine