Reuters hires fintech writer Irrera

Reuters financial services editor Carmel Crimmins and deputy financial services editor Lauren Tara LaCapra sent out the following staff hire announcement on Friday:

Colleagues,

We’re thrilled to announce that Anna Irrera will be joining the finance team in New York to cover the intersection of finance and technology – one of the hottest sectors on the patch, better known as fintech.

Anna joins us from London, where she has been covering fintech and market structure since 2013 for the Dow Jones newspaper Financial News. She has become a must-read journalist for the industry, breaking news on topics ranging from blockchain and bitcoin to cyber security and peer-to-peer lending, since the very start of this new wave of financial technology.

Anna also spearheaded the launch of a quarterly publication called Fintech News and compiled its annual Fintech40 powerlist. She recently started her own newsletter rounding up the most important fintech stories of the week. It has become an important resource for industry players.

Anna holds an M.S. degree, with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a graduate degree in law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Between journalism and law school, Anna worked at the Italian national publication ItaliaOggi, covering law and taxes.

This is her second stint at Reuters, having been a trainee for our English language international service in Brazil. She is also the author of “Prendo a calci il sole- Bahia, i bambini, la strada,” 13 true stories of Brazilian meninos de rua (children of the street), a project she began while a visiting student at Harvard University. An Italian native, she is fluent in English, Italian and Portuguese.

Anna will start on November 17. Please wish her luck in her new role and feel free send along any tips on fintech news or getting acquainted with Lynx and Eikon!