Yuri Bender

PhD candidate, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, Editor in chief, at Professional Wealth Management, Financial Times

Yuri is a financial journalist focusing on private banking, international asset management and capital markets. He has edited and launched a variety of titles at the Financial Times group and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Professional Wealth Management global magazine, website and events hub.

He has led debates on how banks and asset management groups must match customer needs and has reported from developing markets including Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine and writes a regular column for FTfm, the fund management section of the FT newspaper.