Yalman Onaran is a Turkish-born American financial journalist. He is currently a senior finance writer for

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, focusing on global and national banking, Onaran covers global banking, regulation and the politics of finance, writing feature articles about banking issues worldwide, and comparing the problems of European banks to their U.S. counterparts, as well as analysing the effectiveness of new bank regulations.

Life and career

Onaran was born in

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and moved to the United States in 1987 to attend the College of

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from which he graduated in 1991. Onaran earned graduate degrees from the

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and from the

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School of International and Public Affairs. Onaran taught in schools before he became a full-time correspondent for the

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, and moved back to Ankara, Turkey in 1995 to cover wars and politics. Onaran found himself covering the war zones first, then switched to financial journalism. opening the company's Istanbul bureau. Onaran has worked for

since 1998 in various capacities including as

bureau chief and magazine writer. Onaran moved back to New York City in 2006, where he covered

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and

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during the

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. In 2013, his book about

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s was published, ''Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations are Crippling the Global Economy''.

Publications

* ''Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations are Crippling the Global Economy'' (New York, Wiley, 2011). * "U.S. Bank Regulators Go Bigger Than Basel, Seek Tougher Capital Rules", ''

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'' (July 11, 2013) * "U.S. Bank Balance Sheets May Hide Risk" ''

'' (February 21, 2013) Onaran's work has also been published in ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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'' and numerous other publications around the world.

Personal life

Onaran is married with a son, and is an avid diver and ice skater. He speaks and reads English, Turkish, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish.

References

External links

Twitter: Yalman Onaran
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