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Scott Andrew Chipolina

London,ENG

Summary

Investigative journalist with a background in finance, focusing on financial crime, technology, and cryptocurrencies. Graduate from City University of London (MA in Investigative Journalism). Fluent in Spanish, with a basic foundation in Arabic.


Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work history

Balanced Economy Project

Journalist
London
03.2025 - Current

Responsibilities included:

  • Investigating abuses of power in highly concentrated financial markets.
  • Using FOIs, financial statements and lobbying data to uncover exploitative and unlawful business practices in Big Tech, as well as other critical sectors including pharmaceuticals and healthcare.
  • Produced findings that have presented to UK policymakers and regulators to pursue legislative reforms.

Financial Times

Digital Assets Correspondent
London
05.2022 - 06.2024

Responsibilities included:

  • Leading coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and delivering stories to a global readership.
  • Publishing a weekly cryptocurrency newsletter providing exclusive reporting to over 20,000 subscribers.
  • Chairing panel discussions and interviewing high profile figures across industry events in London, New York and Amsterdam.
  • Delivering digital content across social media via podcasts and documentaries.
  • I was shortlisted for a Loeb award — a top prize in journalism — for my coverage of the collapse of FTX and the fraud orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried.

Decrypt Media

Staff Journalist
London
08.2020 - 04.2022

Responsibilities included:

  • Writing breaking news stories and long form investigative stories.
  • Live TV and audio reporting at Decrypt as well as on other outlets including Yahoo Finance.

"White Collar Boxing" | Nine Lives Media

Undercover Journalist
London
09.2019 - 04.2020

1 Hour Program for ITV Exposure » Executive Producer: Steve Anderson

Responsibilities included:

  • Managing technical equipment, including hidden cameras.
  • Exposing a hidden subculture in British boxing that put vulnerable people at risk for profit.
  • Communicated findings on camera to an audience of 1.5 million people.

Gibraltar Financial Services Commission

Regulatory Officer
Gibraltar
03.2016 - 12.2018

Responsibilities included:

  • Protecting vulnerable people and challenging powerful businesses on exploitative practices.
  • Reviewing financial documents to identify illicit activity.
  • Producing work to guide the GFSC's overall financial crime strategy.

Education

Master of Arts - Investigative Journalism

City University Of London (2:1)
London
2020

Master of Arts - International Relations

Durham University (1:1)
Durham, UK
2016

Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy & Politics

The University Of York (2:1)
York, UK
2013

Bayside Comprehensive School
Gibraltar
2010

Skills

  • In depth understanding of financial crime
  • Experience investigating corruption and reporting for global audiences
  • Able to analyse big data using Node XL and R
  • Able to self-shoot and self-edit film
  • Experience covering sensitive subject matters
  • Self-motivated
  • Extremely organised
  • Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Hobbies

I enjoy keeping active and being outdoors. My main interests are hiking, long distance running, and cricket. Earlier this year I ran a half marathon for the British Heart Foundation, raising £1,000 in the process. In 2018, I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and raised £18,000 for a local mental health charity in Gibraltar.


References furnished upon request.

Timeline

Balanced Economy Project

Journalist
03.2025 - Current

Financial Times

Digital Assets Correspondent
05.2022 - 06.2024

Decrypt Media

Staff Journalist
08.2020 - 04.2022

"White Collar Boxing" | Nine Lives Media

Undercover Journalist
09.2019 - 04.2020

Gibraltar Financial Services Commission

Regulatory Officer
03.2016 - 12.2018

Master of Arts - Investigative Journalism

City University Of London (2:1)

Master of Arts - International Relations

Durham University (1:1)

Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy & Politics

The University Of York (2:1)

Bayside Comprehensive School
Scott Andrew Chipolina