Leah Golob joins The Logic’s newsroom as its new fintech and payments reporter. Read more in this note to staff from the newsroom’s senior editors:

We’re delighted to announce that Leah Golob is joining The Logic as our new fintech reporter.

Leah’s spent the last several years as one of the country’s top freelance business journalists, with bylines for The Canadian Press, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Canadian Business and others (including The Logic). At The Canadian Press, she wrote a weekly series on Gen Z/millennial money. Before launching her career as a freelancer, she was a reporter for Investment Executive, a publication for financial professionals.

This summer Leah won first prize in the short article category at the Portfolio Management Association of Canada’s Awards for Excellence in Investment Journalism and silver at SABEW Canada’s Best in Business Awards in the trade article category.

She has a wealth of knowledge about Canada’s financial sector to draw on as she tackles the important fintech beat, which includes coverage of some of Canada’s most prominent public and private tech players, including Wealthsimple, Lightspeed, Clearco, Nuvei, Neo Financial and Portage Ventures. 

Leah will be based in Toronto, and joins The Logic on Dec. 5. Please welcome her to the team.

— April, Charlie and Jordan