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The Banker is the world's premier banking and finance resource. Read in over 180 countries around the world, The Banker is the key source of data and analysis for the industry. Its unique database of more than 4000 banks maps their financial strength and soundness via Tier 1 capital, their profitability, and their performance versus their peers.
The Banker has been providing global financial intelligence since 1926 and has built a reputation for objective and incisive reporting on major events. Every month the magazine combines in-depth regional and country coverage with reports on capital markets and structured finance, risk management, working capital management and securities services, environmental finance, trade and project finance, trading, technology and management and governance issues.
The Banker's senior editors travel the world to interview senior bankers and world leaders, giving the magazine a unique insight on global trends.
| Brian Caplen has been Editor of The Banker since 2003. He joined the Financial Times Group from Euromoney in 2000 where he was Executive Editor of Euromoney magazine for five years. He also worked as a business editor and journalist in Hong Kong and the Middle East for 10 years. He has travelled extensively and done numerous high level interviews with prime ministers, finance ministers, central bank governors and senior executives. He has a first class honours degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia. |
| Stephen Timewell is Editor Emeritus of The Banker, having previously been Editor-in-Chief of the magazine since 2003. Stephen has written on all corners of the globe and covered a wide variety of industry issues, from investment banking to retail banking and technology. Prior to becoming Editor-in-Chief, he had been Assistant Editor since 1990; before that, Stephen was Editor of Arab Banker from 1988-90. In the 1980s he worked as a political economist for First Chicago and as a finance writer on Middle East Economic Digest. |
| Philip Alexander is Senior Editor of The Banker, responsible for covering capital markets and investment banking. Previously he was deputy editor of Euromoney's Emerging Markets newspaper. Before moving into journalism, Philip edited credit research for international ratings agency Standard & Poor's. He has a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Cambridge. |
| Silvia Pavoni is Economics Editor of The Banker, for which she oversees the Latin America and Southern Europe coverage, as well as writing on international financial centres, wealth management and project and energy finance. Previously, Silvia was online editor of Public Private Finance, a news and data service for the public private partnerships community. She has also written reports for organisations such as the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK, and the Italian Trade Commission. She holds a BSc in Economics and Finance from Ca'Foscari University of Venice and is fluent in Italian, her mother tongue, and Spanish. |
| Duygu Tavan is Technology Editor of The Banker and is responsible for global coverage of retail and investment banking technology, including trading platforms, core systems and clearing and settlement. Duygu also covers Turkey. Previously, she was a senior reporter at VRL Financial News, where she covered retail and private banking, wealth management, and cards and payments markets. Duygu was born and brought up in Germany and has a BA in Journalism from Kingston University. |
| Paul Wallace is Africa Editor of The Banker and also writes about capital markets. He joined the magazine in 2011 from EuroWeek, where he was Corporate Finance Editor, covering the bond and syndicated loan markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has a BA in history from Durham University and an MA in journalism from the London College of Communication. He was born and brought up in Malawi. |
| Jane Cooper is the Asia Editor and Global Transaction Services Editor of The Banker, responsible for covering all aspects of the Asia region as well as topics related to global transaction services and transaction banking. Previously she worked as a freelancer for a number of publications, specialising in retail banking, and cards and payments. Jane lived in South Korea for several years and worked for the national English-language newspaper The Korea Herald. She has an MSc from Oxford University. |
| Melissa Hancock is the Middle East and North Africa Editor of The Banker and also oversees the magazine’s coverage of Islamic finance. She has specialised in Middle Eastern business journalism since graduating from Oxford University in 2005.Previously she worked for Middle East Economic Digest for two and a half years as both a banking and finance features writer and a news reporter covering the capital markets. She has also worked as both a features and news writer for Real Business, a magazine specialising in entrepreneurs and start-ups, and Arabian Business magazine. Melissa has a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism. She was brought up in Dubai and has travelled extensively throughout the region. |
| Guillaume Hingel is Research Editor for The Banker. He is responsible for the research behind the annual Top 1000 World Banks report published every July as well as the production of monthly regional rankings. He is also in charge of the update and development of The Banker's online financial database (www.TheBankerDatabase.com) He previously worked as a research assistant for This is Africa, the Institut de la Mediterranee in Marseilles and for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. He speaks English, French and Spanish fluently and has an MSc from the London School of Economics. |
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