Red tape and rigid regulators are blamed for thwarting the UK’s Brexit ambitions

James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the... Read more

Jakub leads MLex's coverage of UK legislative processes across multiple beats, with primary focus on data, privacy and security, future mobility and post-Brexit divergence. He also contributes to the broader European and trans-Atlantic coverage on digital regulations.He joined MLex in 2020 to report on data, focusing on EU & UK risks and Brexit, before launching a new future mobility service looking at connected, automated, electric and shared vehicles in 2021.Based in the UK since 2012,... Read more

Phoebe has covered Financial Crime and compliance issues for MLex since 2015, initially in the Hong Kong bureau and currently in London. While in Hong Kong she won two SOPA awards for her reporting on corruption in the energy sector in Indonesia. Prior to journalism she worked as a solicitor with a focus on white-collar crime litigation in London and Hong Kong. She has a BA in English and Philosophy from Newcastle University.