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Anna Irrera is a Senior Editor on Bloomberg's Crypto team based in London, where she edits, reports and writes stories about the digital assets industry. Anna also hosts "Mondo Fintech" a weekly Spotify Original Podcast in Italian, which discusses a big fintech story or theme and trend. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Anna was a senior correspondent at Reuters in London where she covered the financial technology sector and technology related developments at some of the world’s largest financial institutions. In her role she worked on stories on topics at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, including cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology blockchain, peer-to-peer lending and online investing. Anna was previously team leader for financial companies coverage and fintech correspondent for Reuters based in in New York. She joined Reuters in 2016 having previously covered fintech for more than three years at Financial News, a Dow Jones newspaper in London, where she played a key role in the publication’s expanded digital finance coverage. She joined Dow Jones in 2012 as an online reporter for Financial News, having moved to the UK from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she worked at Reuters’, English language international service.  She holds M.S. degree (with honors) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and a graduate degree in law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.