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Virginia Furness

Virginia Furness is an experienced financial journalist most recently covering Africa and the Middle East for Reuters. Virginia's writing ranges from real-time market reporting and breaking news at Reuters, to deep-dive analysis and features for Euromoney Magazine. Virginia, who is adept at analysing and explaining large data sets and has strong charting skills, has covered global financial institutions and capital markets for seven years and is particularly interested in development finance, financial inclusion and global capital flows to MEA.

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