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    Tabby Kinder

    West Coast financial editor

    Tabby leads the FT's coverage of finance in Silicon Valley and across the US West Coast. She was previously Asia financial correspondent in Hong Kong, and tax and accounting correspondent in London.

    Before she joined the FT in 2019, she was a reporter at The Times, Dow Jones and The Lawyer. In 2017, Tabby was named best newcomer to financial journalism at the State Street press awards

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