The Financial Times banking editor, Peter Thal Larsen, is to leave the paper after 10 years to join news agency Reuters’ commentary service.

Thal Larsen will become the European editor of the Reuters commentary team, commissioning and editing comment articles, as well as taking overall charge of the agency’s global banking coverage.

Based in London, he will report to the editor of the new commentary team, Jonathan Ford.

[lnk|http://www.featuresexec.com/publications/info_features.php?pubid=353|_self|Financial Times]

[lnk|http://www.featuresexec.com/publications/info_features.php?pubid=2034=reuters|_self|Reuters]