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Nachum Kaplan is associate editor of Loans/High Yield at International Financing Review (IFR) magazine in London and the senior judge for the loan and high-yield categories of IFR's annual capital markets awards. He has been with IFR since 2001.
A career financial journalist with 15 years international experience, he has worked in his native Australia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom and has travelled extensively in Asia, Europe and the US as part of his work.
He began his career as a stock, bond and currency market reporter for the Herald Sun, Australia's biggest-selling daily newspaper. He then moved to Indonesia where he worked for The Jakarta Post English-language daily after which he joined US financial newswire Bridge News, where he became the Jakarta bureau chief. He reported on the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis and the subsequent political turmoil that culminated in the downfall of Indonesian dictator President Soeharto after a 32-year rule. He moved to London with Bridge News in 2000.
