Insider hires Walker and Weinman for finance desk

Insider has hired two reporters to cover finance desk topics.

Danielle Walker is joining Insider as its first finance features reporter, where she will write in-depth stories on Wall Street’s most powerful firms and people.

Walker is based in New York and has been a business reporter for over a decade. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times and she was most recently a senior reporter at Pensions & Investments covering money managers and institutional investors.

Walker holds a master’s degree in journalism from New York University. She also earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, where she double majored in English and African-American & African studies.

Aaron Weinman is joining Insider as a capital markets correspondent, covering the top firms, power players, and personalities in the business of raising capital.

Weinman has written about the U.S. and Latin American credit markets for the last six years. Most recently, he focused on the U.S. leveraged finance market for Refinitiv, which was the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters that is now owned by the London Stock Exchange Group.

Prior to that, he covered the Latin American capital markets for LatinFinance, a former Euromoney publication.

Weinman is an Australian national with a Bachelor of business from La Trobe University and a Master of communication from Deakin University.