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John Heltman is the Washington Bureau Chief for American Banker, leading coverage of federal bank regulators, monetary policy and Capitol Hill. 

John, a Washington native living in Baltimore, joined American Banker as a Federal Reserve and Treasury reporter in 2014, launching longform narrative podcast Bankshot in 2019 and running American Banker Magazine from 2021 until 2022. He has received numerous professional awards from the Society for the Advancement of Business Editor and Writers, the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the Jesse H. Neal awards. John won the Grand Neal in 2019 for his podcast "Nobody's Home," which examined the causes and effects of concentrated vacant housing.

John joined American Banker from Argus Media, where he covered the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the agency was implementing its Dodd-Frank reforms to the commodity and derivatives markets. Prior to that, John covered environmental policy for Inside Washington Publishers from 2008 until 2012.  

Kate Berry has covered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for American Banker since 2016. She joined the publication in 2006 covering mortgage lending and the financial crisis. Berry also has covered big banks including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She has won five awards from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and has worked at several news organizations including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Associated Press. Berry began her career as a clerk at the New York Times.

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