Shankar Ramakrishnan has nearly 30 years of financial journalism experience in writing, editing managing and building teams across Asia and the U.S. He is responsible for coverage of investment-banking products in his current role that includes global stories on investment-grade, high-yield, structured finance, structured equity and derivatives. He joined Reuters from Informa Global Markets where he was a senior bonds editor. Before Informa, he worked for International Financing Review for 18 years in Singapore, Hong Kong and New York with his last position being Global News Editor. He is an author of two books on Indian capital markets that were published by IFR Intelligence. He has also worked in Bridge News in India and Singapore, and several Indian newspapers.
Echo Wang is a correspondent at Reuters covering U.S. equity capital markets, and the intersection of Chinese business in the U.S, breaking news from U.S. crackdown on TikTok and Grindr, to restrictions Chinese companies face in listing in New York. She was the Reuters' Reporter of the Year in 2020.
Mike Stone is a Reuters reporter covering the U.S. arms trade and defense industry. Most recently Mike has been focused on how the war in Ukraine has changed the future of war and how industry has adapted, or faltered. Mike, a New Yorker, has extensively covered how the U.S. has supplied Ukraine with wepons, the cadence, decisions and milestones that have had battlefield impacts. Before his time in Washington Mike’s coverage focused on mergers and acquisitions for oil and gas companies, financial institutions, defense compnaies, consumer product makers, retailers, real estate giants, and telecommunications companies.
