The Banker provides economic and financial intelligence for the world's financial sector and has built a reputation for objective and incisive reporting.

The Banker has been the trusted source of banking information since 1926. It has navigated its way through over 90 years of banking coverage from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the financial crisis of 2008 and beyond, with the same reputation for accuracy, authority and integrity.

The Banker strives to stimulate and inform, offering an unparalleled outlook with a wide range of news, features, analysis and interviews, and in-depth coverage of all the key issues facing the financial sector.

The Banker combines in-depth regional and country coverage with reports on:

Markets: Capital markets, derivatives & structured products, infrastructure & project finance and Islamic finance.
Banking, regulation and risk: Regulation, retail banking, wholesale banking, private banking, management and governance issues.
Transactions and technology: trading, trade finance, securities services, cash management and transaction bankers.
Data: International financial centres, trends and rankings, including the Top 1000 World Banks.

The Banker offers an unrivalled combination of authoritative news, features, surveys and heavyweight interviews and is essential reading for CEOs, CFOs, corporate treasurers, central bank governors and financial regulators.

Its unique database of more than 5000 banks maps their financial strength and soundness via Tier 1 capital, their profitability and their performance versus their peers.

The Banker is the key source of data and analysis for the industry.

 

The Banker editorial team

   
Silvia Pavoni

Silvia Pavoni is the editor in chief of The Banker. She joined the Financial Times Group in 2005 and was most recently the founding editor of Sustainable Views, a new service by the FT Group for sustainability professionals.
Silvia also serves as an advisory board member for the Women of the Future Programme and for the European Risk Management Council, and is part of the London council of not-for-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America.
In 2019, Silvia was awarded an honorary fellowship by City University of London. She holds an MSc and a BSc in economics and finance from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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Liz Lumley is the deputy editor of The Banker. She is a specialist commentator on global financial technology or ‘fintech’. She has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, managing director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra.

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Anita Hawser

Anita Hawser is the Europe editor at The Banker. For the past 20 years, Anita has worked as a freelance journalist for a range of banking, finance and tech titles covering topics such as cybersecurity, financial crime, cryptocurrencies, payments, trade and supply chain finance. Before joining The Banker, Anita was Europe editor at Global Finance.

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John Everington

John Everington is the Middle East and Africa editor. Prior to joining The Banker, John was the deputy business editor of The National in the UAE, and has also worked for Dealreporter, Arab News and The Telegraph. He has also covered the telecom sector in Africa and the Middle East, living and working in Qatar and the UK. John has a BA in Arabic and History and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

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Kimberley Long

Kimberley Long is the Asia editor at The Banker. She joined from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Between degrees she spent a year teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Programme.

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Sam Friend is the digital content editor at The Banker. He previously worked as an editor at a legal publishing house, where he worked with lawyers and legal experts worldwide.

He holds a BA in History and Politics.

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Barbara Pianese

Barbara Pianese is the Latin America editor at The Banker. She joined from Mergermarket, where she spent four years covering mergers and acquisitions across Europe with a focus on the consumer sector. She holds an MA in International and Diplomatic Affairs from the University of Bologna having studied in Brazil and France as well.

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Michael Klimes

Michael Klimes is the investment banking and capital markets editor at The Banker. He joined the publication from Money Marketing where he was acting editor. He wrote about pensions for nine years on the retail and institutional side. He won B2B pensions journalist of the year at the Headline Money Awards 2022.

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