Bloomberg’s Katz joins Capital Alpha Partners

Bloomberg News reporter Ian Katz has joined Capital Alpha Partners, a Washington-based firm that provides strategic policy research to financial institutions.

Katz has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist for outlets including BusinessWeek, the Miami Herald and Associated Press.

At Bloomberg, he covered financial regulation and market issues, the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board.

In an email he sent out when he left Bloomberg, Katz wrote:

We spend a serious amount of time with our work colleagues. That is, until one of us leaves. Then we either keep in touch (which would be my preference) or not. Either way it’s all good, because those colleagues, or friends, made an impression on our lives, and nothing going forward changes that. So I’d like to thank everyone — in DC and places far-flung — who put up with me over the past 8 1/2 years (including this self-indulgent e-mail). I’m moving on to something slightly different, in the world of DC policy analysis, and I’m excited about that. But I really enjoyed working at Bloomberg, and I’ll miss it.

Katz was also a reporter for the series “Wall Street’s Toxic Exports,” which was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award in 2009, and on a series that won an Overseas Press Club Malcolm Forbes Award in 2008.

He was a business columnist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where he won the Florida Press Club’s first-place award for business writing in 2005 and 2007, and spent two months reporting from Cuba in 2006.

Katz was also based in South America for 10 years, including a stint as BusinessWeek magazine’s Brazil bureau chief. He was also vice president of media for online financial services company Patagon.com Inc. in Miami, supervising 60 journalists in seven countries in Latin America and Europe.