Neil Ainger

About Neil

Neil Ainger is a freelance treasury, financial services and technology business journalist. In addition to his core journalism, which has been published by numerous international titles and trade publications both on a staff and freelance basis, Neil provides a number of copywriting/editorial/moderation services to banks, technology companies and corporate clients, including show reports/previews, event moderation, web content and thought leadership articles.

Previously the editor-in-chief of the gtnews and bobsguide online titles, covering treasury and fintech respectively for the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP, 2 years), Neil has also worked as deputy editor at Informa's Banking Technology [1.5 years] and edited Financial Sector Technology (FSTech) magazine for five years. In addition, he has worked at Reed Elsevier's offices in Oxford [2001-2005] as a technical journalist in the Elsevier Advanced Technology (EAT) unit covering renewable energy and other engineering titles. His areas of expertise after almost 20 years in journalism include: treasury and cash management, payments, retail/investment banking, trading technology and data centres, mobile financial services, risk management, treasury technology, SWIFT, SEPA, eBAM, regulation, cloud computing, 'big data' and information security.