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Hey everybody,

Thrilling occasions in Finance (and naturally finance). I’m comfortable to share with you some new roles and new faces.

Dwell Markets is off to a spirited begin. Three reporters are on the coronary heart of the workforce:

gunjan banerji is appointed as the principle editor of Dwell Markets. On this new place, he can be current on the Dwell Markets platform and outdoors of it. Gunjan will write extensively on the markets and assist us outline new methods to do subtle and up-to-date journalism. Gunjan joined the Journal from Debtwire in 2016 and has been on the middle of the meme inventory mania and volatility spikes. And she or he’s our resident professional on the thorny terrain of choices and derivatives. Gunjan is an everyday contributor to CNBC and you may watch her in our GameStop documentary on Netflix. Gunjan was one of many reporters who simply obtained a Loeb for GameStop protection.

hannah miao Y eric wallerstein have joined us as Dwell Markets reporters. Each deliver a powerful understanding of the markets, in addition to expertise with a wide range of digital reporting codecs. Hannah was beforehand at CNBC, the place she wrote voraciously on markets of all types for CNBC.com, labored on newsletters and wrote for CNBC Professional. Hannah is a graduate of Duke College. Eric got here from Hedgeye Danger Administration, the place he wrote articles on markets and macroeconomics, managed the Hedgeye Twitter account, and wrote newsletters. Earlier than Hedgeye, he was an analyst on the New York Federal Reserve. He’s a graduate of Bucknell College.

cristina rexrode can be reporting and writing once more on retail investing and retail traders within the US Christina is a talented and affected person editor and one in all our greatest prose stylists. As deputy banking editor and monetary information editor, she directed memorable client finance tales and memorably wrote in regards to the monetary challenges of kid care in the course of the pandemic. As a part of her retail profession, she can be our eyes and ears within the rising monetary facilities of the Southeast from her base in Charlotte, NC. Christina joined the Journal in 2014 as a banking reporter; Earlier than that, she had coated enterprise and finance for the St. Petersburg Occasions, the Charlotte Observer, AP and MarketWatch.

Vicky Ge Huang joined Enterprise Insider’s Journal as a markets reporter protecting crypto, and simply in time for the crash! He has seen her in all places, on Celsius, Voyager, Three Arrows Capital and extra. On Insider, Vicky coated the rise of cryptocurrencies and rising blockchain applied sciences, in addition to market and enterprise technique. She was beforehand a reporter for AdvisorHub and Citywire. She has a grasp’s diploma from the Columbia Faculty of Journalism.

Gunjan, Hannah, Eric, Christina and Vicky are on the US Markets workforce, led by Aaron Kuriloff and Lauren Pollock.

lauren thomas begins Monday as a reporter protecting offers and Wall Avenue. Lauren comes from CNBC, the place she wrote about retail and specialised in IPOs and different transactions. Overlaying retail for the previous few years has meant bankruptcies and mergers and government struggles and technique modifications and all types of pleasure. Lauren was within the thick of issues with in-depth, unique reporting on Peloton and past. Lauren graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. She joins the Wall Avenue workforce led by Marie Beaudette and Dana Cimilluca.

david wainer is our new Heard on the Avenue author on Prescription drugs and Well being Merchandise. David comes from Bloomberg, the place he most just lately coated the United Nations and overseas coverage. He beforehand labored for greater than a decade in Israel for Bloomberg, protecting economics, politics, and healthcare and know-how. David is a local of Brazil and speaks Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew. He experiences to Heard on the Avenue editor Spencer Jakab.

Throughout the pond…

ed ballard is the editor of our new WSJ Local weather & Power publication, whose inaugural difficulty got here off the presses through e mail final month (join!). C&E depends on Dow Jones for detailed reporting and evaluation on the local weather and power transition. Ed, who’s a 10-year veteran of Dow Jones and primarily based in London, was beforehand bureau chief for WSJ Professional Sustainable Enterprise. Ed experiences to Ken Brown, the monetary threat, enforcement and regulatory editor.

Chelsey Dulaney it is again! Chelsey interned on the Journal in 2014, later protecting information and foreign money and internet hosting our MoneyBeat weblog. She left to acquire a Fulbright scholarship in Germany and stayed in Berlin, the place she labored as a reporter for Deutsche Welle. She is now on the London markets workforce writing in regards to the intersection of central banks and markets.

anna hartenstein has added commodities to her portfolio as a London-based markets reporter. Anna obtained main tales in current months in regards to the Russian oil commerce, together with the disruption firstly of the warfare and the way the Russian oil trade has dusted itself off. She has additionally taken over Evergrande bonds, yen hedge fund transactions and ship-to-ship transfers of Russian crude. Anna joined the Journal in 2019. Previous to that, she was a inexperienced power funding banker and journalist at Bloomberg.

joseph mitchell moved to London to cowl finance within the Metropolis of London, together with HSBC and Barclays. Josh is a veteran of the DC workplace, the place he wrote on economics and have become a preeminent authority on scholar debt. His reporting on the scholar mortgage growth made it clear how the invoice obtained so large for thus many. (He’ll bear in mind the orthodontist with $1,060,945.42 in loans.) He’s the creator of “The Debt Lure,” printed final yr.

Chelsey, Anna and Josh report back to Europe finance editor Alex Frangos.

And two editors on the transfer…

quentin webb is appointed Deputy Monetary Editor for Europe, serving to to supervise our EMEA protection from London. Quentin joined the Journal in Hong Kong in 2018 as Asia Markets Editor, overseeing a workforce of markets reporters and directing all kinds of tales: on the Chinese language property developer debacle, on the crackdown on tech firms, on the way forward for Hong Kong as a monetary market. middle, and extra. He additionally reported on the autumn of Evergrande. Previous to the Journal, Quentin spent 15 years at Reuters, each as a information reporter and as a columnist for Breakingviews. Quentin experiences to Alex Frangos.

matthew thomas succeeds Quentin as editor of Asia Markets. Matt has been in Asia since 2008 and has labored in Hong Kong for a wide range of publications, most just lately Euromoney as Asia Bureau Chief. Previous to journalism, Matt traded currencies for a time, slicing his enamel protecting business paper and securitization autos in the course of the monetary disaster. Additionally: he’s ending his first novel. Matt experiences to Asia Finance Editor, Serena Ng.

-Charles