Jason Corcoran

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Journalist and Analyst, Freelance

Dublin, London

Business and Finance, Ireland, Russia, United Kingdom

As seen in: LinkedIn, MSN India, MSN Ireland, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, The Guardian, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Substack and

Covers: investment, investment banks, ukraine, georgia, russia, finance, politics, banking, corporate governance, breaking news, moscow, kazakhstan

Doesn't Cover: fishing, toxic chemical reform

Author of the book, Leaving Russia, published in May 2026. Journalist for Sunday Times (UK), Business Insider (US), Moscow Times, Irish Independent. LFC 🏆

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World's Top Financial Firms Exit Russia as Economy Slumps

From Franklin Templeton Investments to BNP Paribas SA, global financial firms that once pushed to expand in R…

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Evercore Halts Dealmaking With VTB Capital Amid Sanctions

Evercore Partners Inc., the merger-advisory firm founded by Roger Altman, is ending a relationship with VTB C…

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Russia Terminates Contract With National Soccer Coach Capello

Russia agreed with national soccer team coach Fabio Capello to end his contract early as the country tries to…

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Ireland Delays Quinn's Russian Asset Sale After Prices Dived

Ireland is postponing the sale of Russian and Ukrainian assets accumulated from the family of the former bill…

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Russian Banks Scale Back London Growth Plans as Sanctions Bite

Russia's biggest lenders are scaling back their London investment banking ambitions as sanctions curb deal-ma…

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Russia Investment Banking Fees Evaporate as Sanctions Halt Deals

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. are among securities firms that have seen Russian investment bank…

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Putin Bottles Patriotism as Black Sea Wine Trumps Burgundy

Spurned over Ukraine and squeezed by recession, Russians are starting to measure patriotism by the glass. Thi…

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The Coming Die-Off in the Russian Banking Sector

Hundreds of Russian banks are poised to disappear as the worsening economic crisis and a central bank cleanup…

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Deutsche Bank Suspends Some Employees in Moscow Equity Unit

Deutsche Bank AG said it has suspended "a small number of individuals" in its Moscow equities trading operati…

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Michael Page to Close Moscow Recruitment Office as Economy Slows

(Bloomberg) -- PageGroup, the U.K.-based financial services recruitment company, plans to close its office in…

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Thousands March for Russia Opposition After Nemtsov Murdered

(Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands marched through Moscow to honor slain political activist Boris Nemtsov in th…

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Russian Billionaire Abramovich Feels the Pinch of Commercial Property Slump

(Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Roman Abramovich's White Gardens office complex in Moscow stands about two-thirds …

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Muscovites With Dollar Mortgages Protest Outside SocGen Bank

Customers protested outside Societe Generale SA (GLE) 's DeltaCredit Bank in Moscow today, demanding relief f…

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Putin Says He Doesn't Regret Pardoning Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't regret pardoning the former billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky…

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Putin Says He Doesn't Regret Pardoning Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't regret pardoning the former billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky…

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Bank of Russia Bolsters Lenders as FX Debt Payments Loom

The Bank of Russia took steps to stabilize the banking system as the ruble collapse makes it more expensive f…

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Russian Bank Run Could Be 'in the Cards,' UralSib Capital Says

The Russian economy may come to "a sudden stop" and a bank run "could be in the cards," according to an analy…

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Russia Tries Emergency Steps for Second Day to Stem Ruble Plunge

Russian authorities eased accounting rules to curb banks' need for dollars, seeking to ease concern the ruble…

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JPMorgan, BNP Staff Said to Leave Moscow Amid Sanctions

Bank employees from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM:US) to Morgan Stanley are leaving Moscow for London as sanction…

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Goldman Sachs Names Klimov as Firm's Only Russian Partner

Maxim Klimov, a managing director in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS:US)'s European special situations group, ye…

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VTB Said to Woo Global Financiers at Sanctions Burlesque

As international sanctions hit Russia, some of Moscow's bankers have continued partying on to keep business f…

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Russia's A1 Seeks to Recover Quinn Asset Owned by Ireland

Alfa Group 's A1 unit plans to raise at least 2.58 billion rubles ($60 million) by selling a Russian logistic…

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Russian Brain Drain Saps Talent as Sanctions Hit Financing

Artem Kulizhnikov, founder of a startup designed to help musicians annotate music, is packing his bags to lea…

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Citigroup Said to Delay Plan for Flagship Moscow Branch

Citigroup Inc. is delaying plans to open a flagship branch on Moscow's main street to the Kremlin, according…

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