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By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Friday, 20th September 2019 at 4:17pmAlecks Vickovich has signed up with the Australian Financial Review as its new banking and wealth reporter.
He Tweeted that he was excited to cover banking and wealth topics in light of the recent Royal Commission hearings. Vickovich came from Nine, where he served for over a year as digital editor for the now-defunct Your Money and as news editor for Business Insider Australia.
Contact Vickovich on Twitter @AleksVicko for new stories.
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