Anna Irrera, Reuters Fintech Chief Correspondent — At The Intersection of Wall St & Silicon Valley
Miguel Armaza sits down with Anna Irrera, Fintech Chief Correspondent at Reuters in London where she covers fintech and tech-related developments at some of the world’s largest financial institutions.
In her role, she works on stories at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, including crypto, blockchain, peer-to-peer lending, online investing, and all things fintech.
We discuss:
- Anna’s journey and why she began covering Fintech before it was cool and mainstream
- The exponential evolution of fintech over the last 10 years and how it’s increasingly more challenging to cover the space
- Her editorial process
- The rise of crypto and why the audience loves reading about it
- Shifting bank cultures
- US vs UK IPOs
- Fintech sectors Anna is excited about
- And a lot more!
Anna Irrera
Anna Irrera is a Chief Correspondent at Reuters in London where she covers the financial technology sector and technology related developments at some of the world’s largest financial institutions. In her role she works on stories on topics at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, including cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology blockchain, peer-to-peer lending and online investing. Anna was previously team leader for financial companies coverage and fintech correspondent for Reuters based in in New York. She joined Reuters in 2016 having previously covered fintech for more than three years at Financial News, a Dow Jones newspaper in London, where she played a key role in the publication’s expanded fintech coverage. She joined Dow Jones in 2012 as an online reporter for Financial News, having moved to the UK from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she worked at Reuters’, English language international service.
She holds M.S. degree (with honors) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and a graduate degree in law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
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