Bank Director names Haslett its banking and fintech editor

Bank Director managing editor Kiah Haslett is now its banking and fintech editor.

She has been managing editor since 2019.

“I’ll be more focused on covering how technology and digital capabilities are changing banking and banks themselves,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

Haslett has been a banking reporter for S&P Global Market Intelligence since 2011. She wrote a variety of articles covering topics that affect U.S. financial institutions, from breaking news to earnings stories to in-depth data driven pieces.

Her work used S&P Global’s database of regulatory and financial information to inform and drive proprietary reporting for clients such as analysts, investment bankers, lawyers, consultants and bankers. She also represented S&P Global at industry and trade events, reporting on the scene and interacting with known and potential sources.

Haslett is a University of Nebraska graduate.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.