AnnaMaria Andriotis is lead financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal, with a particular focus on private credit and private equity including firms such as Apollo, Blackstone and Brookfield. She previously covered Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and prior to that reported on the credit-card industry, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express and the big banks' credit-card divisions. For more than a decade, she covered consumer lending broadly, with a focus on how lenders underwrote loans and borrowers' ability to repay them.
AnnaMaria's deep-dive reporting on internal company practices has included stories on the lack of women in Goldman's highest ranks, the unraveling of Goldman's consumer-lending ambitions, and breakdowns in vetting and anti-money laundering procedures within Morgan Stanley's wealth-management division. From 2020 to 2022, AnnaMaria wrote a series of articles on misleading sales practices at American Express that led to federal investigations and settlements paid by the company.
She has been a reporter with the Journal since 2014 and got her start reporting at Dow Jones in 2006.
AnnaMaria was part of teams that won Columbia Journalism School's WERT Global Prize for a series on the World Economic Forum’s toxic workplace culture that triggered investigations and led to the exit of the WEF's founder, a New York Press Club award for coverage of the 2023 regional banking crisis, a Sabew award for reporting on First Republic's failure, finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for coverage of the regional banking crisis and a Sabew honorable mention for coverage of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on consumers' finances.
