Katy Burne, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has been elected president of the New York Financial Writers’ Association.
Burne writes about credit markets and derivatives for the Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York. Her coverage areas include bonds and loans, credit-default swaps and interest-rate swaps, trading technology/platforms, market structure and regulation.
Previously, she was managing editor of Derivatives Week, a Euromoney Institutional Investor newsletter, and before that she was managing editor of Power Finance & Risk, also at Euromoney.
Burne has a post-graduate diploma in magazine journalism from Harlow Journalism Center in the U.K. and a BA from the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne in psychology.
Stephen Foley, a U.S. investment correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the asset management industry, hedge funds and institutional and retail investment issues, was elected vice president.
