Lawrence Delevingne
Lawrence Delevingne is a financial enterprise reporter at Reuters who focuses on in-depth stories about finance and markets. He has reported for Reuters since 2015, after earlier roles at financial outlets including CNBC.com and Absolute Return. His current work is distinguished by sustained scrutiny of the Trump family’s crypto venture and the way it intersects with regulation, legal risk, artificial intelligence and broader capital markets.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial
Delevingne maintains a detailed line of coverage on World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by Donald Trump and his family. He co-reported a long-form investigation into how the Trump family took over a crypto firm that had raised hundreds of millions of dollars, mapping token economics and revenue claims tied to World Liberty’s operations. In a subsequent story on Trump’s “$100 million crypto mystery man,” he examined the role of a major backer connected to the venture and the web3 fund structures around Aqua 1.
His daily and enterprise reporting follows corporate moves around the project, including Perpetuals.com’s decision to end acquisition talks with a business closely affiliated with World Liberty and what that retreat means for fintech deal-making. He tracks the project’s regulatory trajectory, such as the conditional approval of a national trust bank charter linked to World Liberty’s stablecoin operations by a U.S. banking regulator, explaining how the charter would allow the firm to manage customer assets and settle payments faster.
He also reports on market stress in the venture’s USD1 stablecoin, documenting a brief dip below its $1 benchmark following what the issuer described as an attack, and its quick recovery to parity.
Across these stories, Delevingne keeps attention on ownership stakes, token structures and revenue flows, spelling out how the Trump family’s share of income is shaped by sales and use of World Liberty’s governance token and stablecoin. The coverage is continuous and granular, combining corporate documents, token mechanics and market behavior to show how political figures are tied into a high-profile crypto venture.
Legal disputes and AI-linked crypto ventures
Delevingne also reports on legal battles around the Trump-linked crypto project and its investors. He has covered Justin Sun’s lawsuit against World Liberty Financial over rights tied to WLFI tokens, detailing allegations that the venture improperly froze his holdings and the governance issues at stake. He follows the project’s response as well, including a defamation lawsuit World Liberty filed in Florida state court against Sun as tensions escalated between the issuer and one of its most prominent backers.
In his story on World Liberty Financial’s collaboration with WorldClaw, a Hong Kong-based venture providing artificial-intelligence models from Chinese companies the U.S. government has flagged for national security concerns, Delevingne links AI access, restricted Chinese suppliers and crypto payments. He explains that WorldClaw accepts World Liberty’s tokens for its AI services and that the Trump family earns revenue from the use of those tokens, bringing together sanctions-sensitive technology, digital currency rails and the venture’s ownership economics.
This body of work situates him at the point where crypto innovation, political influence, AI and legal risk meet, with reporting that consistently foregrounds the documents, court filings and business arrangements behind the headlines.
Global markets, oil and Big Tech
Alongside the Trump-crypto beat, Delevingne writes regular global markets wrap-ups that track stocks, bonds, oil and major currencies. He co-authors pieces on turbulent trading days when oil prices jump to around $100 a barrel on the back of Middle East conflict and tanker attacks, connecting energy shocks to inflation concerns and expectations for interest-rate moves.
His markets coverage also follows sessions where U.S. and European stock indices are mixed, highlighting how multi-decade-high bond yields and persistent rate worries weigh on sentiment even when oil prices pause their climb.
Delevingne pays particular attention to Big Tech and AI spending within these market stories, describing how cash burn at Alphabet and Tesla and ramped-up investment in AI infrastructure trigger sharp moves in megacap stocks. He notes the impact of delayed AI model launches and large capital expenditure plans on valuations, showing how technology decisions filter directly into market volatility.
On quieter equity days, he covers U.S. stocks dipping and oil pulling back as Wall Street weighs conflicting messages around Iran, using those episodes to illustrate how geopolitical uncertainty influences both commodities and risk assets.
Approach to finance reporting
Across beats, Delevingne writes enterprise-focused stories rather than brief market flashes, giving space to ownership structures, regulatory correspondence and financial disclosures. He frequently works with other reporters on complex investigations and global markets pieces, reflecting a collaborative approach to multi-jurisdiction finance coverage.
His reporting consistently ties crypto projects and market moves back to governance, compliance and the incentives of investors and political figures, making his work useful for understanding how headlines in digital assets and markets are anchored in underlying power and money flows.
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