Our Team
Three reporters cover the trading industry every day. Every story carries the name of the person who filed it. Wire copy and unsigned notes carry the house byline, The Industry Spread.

Rick Steves
Senior Reporter, Regulation and Fintech
1,960 stories since 2017
Rick Steves has seen business and economics through many lenses. He joined the financial services industry in 2009, and has been a financial journalist since 2011. He holds a degree in Business Administration and has experience producing real-time news, from both buy-side and sell-side, as well as for retail traders, brokers and service providers. Steves' work has appeared in a variety of online publications including FX Street, NewsBTC, FinanceFeeds, and The Industry Spread.

Karthik Subramanian
Digital Assets Correspondent
1,746 stories since 2018
Karthik Subramanian is a founder, writer, and technology consultant with nine years in the crypto ecosystem. He covers token economics, L1/L2 infrastructure, DeFi protocols, wallets/custody, and the bridge between crypto and forex—broker technology, liquidity, and macro drivers. Karthik’s writing focuses on clear, practical frameworks that help professionals evaluate new products and on-chain innovation alongside FX market realities.

Abdelaziz Fathi
Senior Reporter, Brokers and Prop Firms
548 stories since 2021
Abdelaziz Fathi covers the intersection of forex/CFD brokerage, regulation, liquidity, fintech, and digital assets. With a B.A. in Finance and hands-on industry exposure, Aziz blends analytical rigor with clear storytelling to make complex market structure understandable for traders, brokers, and fintech professionals.
Contributors, 2017 to 2025
- Nikolai Isayev2020 to 2025
- Giles CoghlanChief Market Analyst, HYCM, 2021 to 2023
- Ivy Schmerken2017 to 2020
- Karthik Sivasubramaniam2019 to 2020
- Michael Moran2018 to 2020
- Michael Volpe2017 to 2020
- Nikolas Papas2018 to 2020
- Reg Hub2018 to 2020
- Akshata Mannoni2019
- William Freedman2018 to 2019
- Rowan Crosby2018