Sean Farrell, The Independent’s financial editor since July 2007, has taken voluntary redundancy.

He will leave the paper at the end of March to pursue a freelance career.

Farrell covered banking from 2001 at Bloomberg and Reuters and was Head of Media Relations at Standard Chartered for two years before joining The Independent.

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