The Telegraph appoints Foy as financial and professional services correspondent

Simon Foy has been named financial and professional services correspondent at The Telegraph covering accountants, insurers, law firms, stock exchanges, workplace conduct, regulation, green finance, lending and asset management.

Previously, Foy held the post of business reporter.

Prior to joining The Telegraph, Foy was a political news intern at The Spectator. Before that, he was an intern news reporter at Bloomberg. He has also worked as a freelance features writer at The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post.

He was also an intern reporter at The Irish Times and has served as an opinion editor and editor-at-large at The University Times, a student newspaper published from Trinity College Dublin,

Foy is a M.A. in financial journalism from City, University of London.