Michael Roddan

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*** Contact me confidentially: ☏/Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal +1 347 864 0601 and michael@theinformation.com *** Michael Roddan is a banking reporter with The Information in New York covering Wall Street and financial services, with a focus on investigating the intersection of tech and finance. He was previously a National Correspondent with the Australian Financial Review, in a senior investigative role covering corporate misconduct, scandals, political corruption, bad apples and miscreants and regulatory developments. He was also a sometimes gossip columnist. Before that, he was a journalist with The Australian newspaper covering economics, politics, regulation, public policy and financial services, including time reporting from Parliament House in Canberra, and from Sydney and Melbourne covering the financial system. In the U.S., he won the SABEW award for banking coverage (small publisher division) in 2025 for stories about Stripe's troubles with Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, ByteDance bungling a money laundering probe with regulators after HSBC shut its accounts, and Citigroup dumping Temu after Visa complaints. In 2024, he won the SABEW award for banking coverage (small publisher division) for exposing JPMorgan's disastrous European fintech investment, a high-ranking fraudster in a national banking regulator, and Cash App's bank problems. In Australia, he won the NSW Council of Civil Liberties Award for Excellence in Journalism for coverage of corruption in 2022. He was named the Citi Business Journalist of the Year in 2021. He won the Kennedy Award for finance coverage in 2021. He won the Walkley Award for business coverage in 2020, and was named the Citi Young Business Journalist of the Year in 2020. The People vs The Banks, a non-fiction account of the Australian government's 2018 royal commission into misconduct in the financial services sector, was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2019 and was nominated for a Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism. He has a Master's Degree from The University of Melbourne and a Bachelor's Degree from UNSW, and has studied at McGill University in Montreal, Fudan University in Shanghai and Atma Jaya University in Jakarta. He tweets at @michaelroddan