Katherine Doherty
Katherine Doherty connects day-to-day moves at major banks and trading firms with the deeper changes in how markets are built and regulated. She is a finance reporter at Bloomberg News covering trading firms, exchanges and banks, with a focus on how market structure is evolving on Wall Street.
Banks and Trading Firms
Doherty’s core beat includes large institutions such as Bank of America and Citadel Securities and the way their strategies shape liquidity and trading. She reports on how bank leadership views emerging risks, including private credit and echoes of the period before the 2008 financial crisis, and appears on Bloomberg audio programs to discuss these themes. Her coverage emphasizes how decisions by these firms affect market structure and the mechanics of trading, rather than only headline earnings.
Exchanges, Market Structure and Regulation
She covers major U.S. equity and derivatives exchanges, including CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange, as part of a broader focus on market infrastructure. Her beat includes the rules that govern how trades are executed, with reporting on topics such as tick sizes, access fees and best execution standards. She explains how shifts in these rules alter competitive dynamics between exchanges and electronic trading venues and reshape the landscape for market participants.
Prediction Markets and Perpetual Futures
Doherty writes about newer venues such as Kalshi that offer prediction markets and cryptocurrency-linked products, tying them back to the established exchange ecosystem. Her coverage of CME’s lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over perpetual futures highlights how regulatory classifications of contracts, such as futures versus swaps, can reshape competition and risk management for trading firms and exchanges.
She follows how policy statements from regulators open or close space for exchanges to launch new derivatives linked to digital assets and how those decisions reverberate across Wall Street’s market structure.
Corporate Finance and Distressed Debt Background
Before joining the finance team, Doherty reported on corporate finance, special situations, debt restructuring and bankruptcy.
That experience gives her a grounding in how capital structures, covenant packages and distressed workouts intersect with trading in secondary markets. It informs her current beat, where she connects the plumbing of market structure with the balance sheets and funding needs of the institutions that rely most heavily on modern trading venues.
Across these areas, her reporting focuses less on short-term price moves and more on the systems and rules that determine how contemporary financial markets function.
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