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Arash Massoudi

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Arash Massoudi is corporate finance and deals editor at the Financial Times based in London, where he has worked since 2014. Prior to that, he was capital markets reporter in the FT's New York bureau. He joined the FT in London in 2011 from the US government where he served in the Commerce department.

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