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Dakin Campbell is Business Insider’s chief finance correspondent, writing features and conducting investigations into Wall Street’s largest and most powerful firms. He has written extensively about Goldman Sachs and the challenges its CEO has faced in his first few years on the job. Campbell joined Insider in April 2018 from Bloomberg News, where he spent a decade writing for its wire service and magazines.Campbell has also covered municipal finance for The Bond Buyer newspaper, and at the dawn of his career, wrote general assignment stories as an assistant editor at The Freeman’s Journal in Cooperstown, New York.

Campbell holds an undergraduate degree in human development from Cornell University, a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, and holds a CFA charter.

Campbell grew up in Cherry Valley, NY, where his ancestors have lived since the 1740s. During high school in nearby Cooperstown, he worked at the Baseball Hall of Fame in the stock room and met many of the game’s greats.