FT taps Smith as senior markets correspondent

Ian Smith has been named the senior markets correspondent at the Financial Times, based in London.

He was previously insurance correspondent and before that, deputy markets news editor.

Ian joined the newspaper’s special reports desk in 2018 from sister title Investors’ Chronicle, where he had served as companies editor. Prior to that job, he held various reporting and editing roles on the FT Group’s pensions titles.

He has won journalism awards for his work covering insurance and pensions, including for a recent investigation into an insurance scandal involving leaseholders and an article on how the sector treats low-income households.