Simon Watkins

Simon Watkins writes for Rhotic’s Institutional Finance team. He joined from the Financial Conduct Authority in 2021 where he was an editor responsible for the regulator’s thought leadership output.

Prior to this, he was the City editor at the Mail on Sunday from 2013-2017, having worked as markets editor (2000-2005) and deputy city editor (2005-2013) prior to that.

In the late 1990s, he was a senior City reporter with the Press Association.