Joshua Franklin has been named U.S. business correspondent at The Financial Times.
He has been U.S. banking editor for the past five years.
Franklin previously was at Reuters covering mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and corporate finance. He previously covered private equity and IPOs. He was also in the Reuters bureau in Zurich, where he covered Swiss investment banks as well as Switzerland’s central bank, and broke major news during his three-year stint there.
He previously worked for Reuters in London, where he joined as a trainee and gained experience working on several desks. Franklin studied French and German at the University of Bristol, and got a masters degree in political journalism at City University in London.
