Financial Service

Ivan Castano

Financial Editor/Journalist

Profile

Seasoned financial journalist and editor. Two decades of experience working for best-in-class publications including Bloomberg, Forbes, Euromoney and FT group, where I served as a bilingual English-Spanish correspondent, generating several global firsts. Skilled at conceiving, editing and composing high-impact news stories as well as cover features and special reports.

Employment History

Contributing Editor at LatinFinance, New York

November 2018 — February 2020

Contributing Editor. Managed and led reporters to write top copy to demanding daily deadlines. Helped conceive and strategize daily coverage for LatinFinance's Daily Brief, which publishes breaking news and analysis about Latin America s financial markets. Also generated exclusive stories on the region's dollar and local bond markets, M&A and other corporate finance activities.

Mexico Special Correspondent at Bloomberg BNA, Mexico City

November 2012 — March 2016

Mexico Special Correspondent for Bloomberg BNA, covering the country's business law beat. Breaking daily news stories and writing features for a slew of top publications reporting on tax, environmental, privacy, labor, pharmaceutical and numerous other markets. During this role, I interviewed several high-profile politicians and lawyers and chronicled how several, game-changing reforms, impacted business. Also wrote about similar topics in Central America.

Mexico-Latin America Correspondent at Forbes, Mexico City

November 2011 — November 2013

Covered Mexico and Latin America's billionaires including the fortunes and misfortunes of Carlos Slim's telecoms empire. Exclusively reveal new billionaires to add to Forbes' list. First to expose Peru's billionaire Belmont brothers' $3 billion fortune to a global audience.

Equities Editor at Financial News, London, UK

May 2006 — October 2010

Financial editor and contributor for Dow Jones Financial News equity capital markets section, breaking several global firsts on EMEA IPOs and share offerings. Also wrote several supplements on Spain and other European capital markets. Simultaneously, freelanced for Financial Times (FT) Group's Pharmawire healthcare M&A service and Thomson Reuters’ International Finance Review (IFR). For IFR, I covered Asia's financial markets and wrote and edited a 10,000-word Malaysia capital markets supplement and 50,000-word trade finance outlook.

Freelance Business Correspondent at AdAge, Platts, Madrid

January 2002 — February 2006

Correspondent for a range of trade publications and newswires including Advertising Age, Chemical News, Platts Energy Service, Argus Media, just-style, just-auto and Cosmetic News among others. Covered corporate news and wrote features on diverse topics including earnings, labor strikes, growth outlooks, M&A and corporate finance exclusives, both in Spain and Latin America.

Education

Bachelors in Business Communications, Baruch College, New York

December 1996 — December 1999

Obtained a Bachelors Degree in Business Communications/Journalism with a Philosophy minor.

Graduated Dec., 1999. G.P.A: 3.4. (Dean’s list)

Won Reuters' Academic Excellence Scholarship

High School Diploma, Instituto II, Majadahonda, Madrid

October 2019 — October 2019

Obtained High School degree

Courses

Cryptocurrency Trading Course

October 2019 — December 2020

October 2019 — October 2019

Internships

Dow Jones Newswires

June 2008, September 2008

Details

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Links

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

Forbes Blog

Muckrack

Skills

Stock trading Skillful

Hobbies

Reading, scuba diving

Languages

Spanish Native speaker

French Basic command

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