Spezzati hired as chief Euro investing banking correspondent at Reuters

Stefania Spezzati has been hired as chief investment banking correspondent in Europe for Reuters.

She is based in London.

Born in Puglia, Italy, Spezzati started working as a financial journalist in Milan for MF-DowJones, a newswire backed by Dow Jones and Milano Finanza, a leading Italian financial publication. Prior to joining Reuters, she spent about a decade at Bloomberg News, starting in Milan and then moving to London to cover the repercussions of the Brexit referendum on the world of finance and key regulatory changes that have shaped the industry.

Most recently, she was part of the U.K. finance team, writing about the region’s biggest banks, including Barclays and HSBC.

Some of Spezzati’s most impactful stories included exposing multi-million trading losses at banks such as Morgan Stanley and Barclays.

Last year, she helped lead a Bloomberg investigation which exposed how millions of pounds in taxpayer-backed loans went to companies with dubious credentials using data-journalism techniques. The story is nominated in the Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism category at the British Journalism Awards this year.

She also contributed to the coverage of sexual harassment as the #MeToo campaign grew in the financial sector, breaking news on cases at UBS Group AG and HSBC.