Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, a contributor to Forbes and the Financial Times, and a blogger for Open Democracy and other publications. She is the Managing Editor of an important content marketing campaign for a major financial institution and was Associate Editor of the online finance and economics magazine Pieria. Frances previously spent 17 years working in retail and investment banking. Among other things, she designed risk management systems for NatWest, and financial and regulatory reporting systems for HSBC and RBS Group.