AnnaMaria Andriotis — Lead Financial Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

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Author page for AnnaMaria Andriotis, lead financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal, with a particular focus on private credit and private equity. It states that she previously covered Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and that from 2020 to 2022 she wrote a series of articles on misleading sales practices at American Express that led to federal investigations and settlements. It says she has been a reporter with the Journal since 2014 and got her start at Dow Jones in 2006. Listed latest-article headlines include “House Committee Issues Subpoenas for Leon Black Over Epstein Ties.”

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Lead Financial Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

AnnaMaria Andriotis is lead financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal, with a particular focus on private credit and private equity including firms such as Apollo, Blackstone and Brookfield. She previously covered Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and prior to that reported on the credit-card industry, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express and the big banks' credit-card divisions. For more than a decade, she covered consumer lending broadly, with a focus on how lenders underwrote loans and borrowers' ability to repay them.

AnnaMaria's deep-dive reporting on internal company practices has included stories on the lack of women in Goldman's highest ranks, the unraveling of Goldman's consumer-lending ambitions, and breakdowns in vetting and anti-money laundering procedures within Morgan Stanley's wealth-management division. From 2020 to 2022, AnnaMaria wrote a series of articles on misleading sales practices at American Express that led to federal investigations and settlements paid by the company.

She has been a reporter with the Journal since 2014 and got her start reporting at Dow Jones in 2006.

AnnaMaria was part of teams that won Columbia Journalism School's WERT Global Prize for a series on the World Economic Forum’s toxic workplace culture that triggered investigations and led to the exit of the WEF's founder, a New York Press Club award for coverage of the 2023 regional banking crisis, a Sabew award for reporting on First Republic's failure, finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for coverage of the regional banking crisis and a Sabew honorable mention for coverage of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on consumers' finances.

LATEST ARTICLES

House Committee Issues Subpoenas for Leon Black Over Epstein Ties

The co-founder of Apollo said he was duped by the man he hired as a financial adviser, according to remarks prepared for Congress.

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Terell Wright

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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At This Private-Credit Fund, Exits Have Been Restricted for Four Years and Counting

Wealth advisers fear it could be many more years before investors get all their money out of the fund, which invests in consumer and small-business debt.

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Peter Rudegeair

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Apollo Private-Credit Fund Hit With Nearly 17% Redemption Request

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Charlie Javice Has Been Seeking a Pardon From Trump After Defrauding JPMorgan

The entrepreneur sold her startup Frank to the bank for $175 million and was sentenced in September to over seven years in prison for fraud.

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Alexander Saeedy

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

The Anything-Goes Era in Private-Credit Lending Is Coming to an End

Under pressure from investors, lenders are increasing costs and curbing sweeteners they used to win loans in an era of ultra-competition.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Garth Brooks Considers Sale of Music Catalog, Seeking Roughly $2 Billion

The “Friends in Low Places” country star recently notched 200 million albums sold in the U.S.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Anne Steele

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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon

The artificial-intelligence giant is working with bankers at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

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Corrie Driebusch

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Berber Jin

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White House Explores 250 Pardons to Mark America’s 250th Birthday

President Trump could make the announcements on June 14, which is both Flag Day and his birthday, or on the Fourth of July.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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C. Ryan Barber

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Jho Low, Fugitive Behind 1MDB Scandal, Seeks Pardon From Trump

The Malaysian financier recently submitted a pardon request, some 10 years after he disappeared amid a $4.5 billion scandal.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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C. Ryan Barber

Private Credit’s Hot Streak Is Over

The decline in returns is due to the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts and rising defaults on their loans, firms say.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Driven Brands Gets Offer From Activist Hedge Fund

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Activist Hedge Fund Makes Nearly $3 Billion Offer to Buy Meineke Owner

ADW Capital says private-equity firm Roark Capital is mismanaging Driven and offers a roughly 40% premium to buy the company.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Blackstone’s Private Credit Returns Slow in First Quarter

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Private Credit Is on the Hunt for Credit-Card Debt

Fund managers are pouring billions of dollars into agreements to buy the future debt that consumers will incur.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Live Q&A: Private Credit Under Pressure—Ask WSJ Your Questions

Submit your questions now and join a real-time, written chat with WSJ’s finance reporters on Tuesday, April 14, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.

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Matt Wirz

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

The Wealthy Investors That Powered Private Credit Are Rushing for the Exits

Investors asked to pull nearly $14 billion from a group of private-credit funds in the first quarter.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Peter Rudegeair

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Activist Pushes Meineke Owner Driven Brands to Explore a Sale

Private-equity firm Roark Capital is mismanaging Driven, ADW Capital said in a letter.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Top Apollo Executive Sounds Off on ‘Arrogance’ in Private Markets

“I literally think all the marks are wrong,” Apollo’s John Zito said of private equity in previously unreported comments. Apollo said the comment was about software companies.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Morgan Stanley Lays Off 2,500 Employees Across All Divisions

The layoffs of 3% of the workforce are tied to shifting business priorities and individual job performance.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

House Asks Bill Gates, Leon Black and Goldman Lawyer to Testify on Epstein

The Oversight Committee chair sent letters to seven Jeffrey Epstein associates and said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to testify.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Lloyd Blankfein Warns on Private Credit Going Mainstream

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Lloyd Blankfein Misses Being Goldman Sachs CEO—Mostly When There’s a Market Crisis

He discusses his upcoming memoir, surviving office setbacks and the advice he gives Goldman partners to this day

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

| Photography by Sam Hayes for WSJ

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Goldman Sachs Plans to Scrap DEI Criteria for Its Board

Race, sexual orientation and other types of DEI factors will no longer be taken into account when the board’s governance committee identifies new potential directors.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

How Kathy Ruemmler and Goldman Sachs Finally Reached Their Breaking Point

Unease among some board members grew following the latest document releases and the resignation of Paul Weiss’s chairman.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Here’s What the Big Bank CEOs Got Paid in 2025

The chief executives of six of the largest banks were each awarded $40 million or more.

By

Gina Heeb

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

What the Big Bank CEOs Got Paid in 2025

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Gina Heeb

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Goldman Sachs’s Top Lawyer to Step Down Following Latest Epstein Documents

The bank had been steadfast in its support of Kathryn Ruemmler. Recent documents showed she was a close Epstein ally through his 2019 arrest.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Goldman’s Solomon Bullish on Dealmaking, but Expects ‘Speed Bump’

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

When the FBI Arrested Epstein, He Called Kathryn Ruemmler

Documents show Ruemmler, now Goldman’s top lawyer, consulted Jeffrey Epstein on a relationship and potential new jobs while delivering legal and media advice.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Ben Glickman

Citigroup Finance Chief Says You Shouldn’t Bet Against the U.S.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Paramount Adviser Says of Warner Hostile Bid: ‘We’re Gonna Win’

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Blackstone Executive Expects Fed to Bring Rates Down

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Blackstone’s Jon Gray Sees Disruption Risk in Private Credit

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

EXCLUSIVE

Goldman Sachs Grapples With Top Lawyer’s Epstein Problem

A key executive told others he was formulating a contingency plan for Kathryn Ruemmler to leave after revelations about her Epstein ties.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Goldman’s Solomon Says Bank Is Looking at Prediction Markets

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Traders, Dealmakers Drive Big Banks to a Record Year

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Wall Street Powers Nation’s Biggest Banks to Record Year

Revenues were up across the board of the leading financial firms, with trading, banking and lending all busy.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Goldman Sachs Profit Rises on Jump in Dealmaking and Lending

The bank reported record annual revenue in its core Wall Street engine of investment banking and trading. Morgan Stanley also benefited from a surge in dealmaking activity.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Morgan Stanley Stock Rises After Earnings Beat Forecasts

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Jamie Dimon Seemed to Have Trump Figured Out—Until This Week

JPMorgan CEO had been rebuilding his relationship with the president, serving as a model for other executives, but the fight over Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell threatens to topple it.

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Alexander Saeedy

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Emily Glazer

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Brian Schwartz

Behind the Unraveling of Apple’s Credit-Card Partnership With Goldman Sachs

After more than two years of negotiations, one of the biggest credit-card deals of all time will see Goldman replaced by JPMorgan on the Apple credit card.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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JPMorgan Chase Reaches Deal to Take Over Apple Credit Card

Goldman Sachs is expected to offload the credit-card balances at a more than $1 billion discount.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Gina Heeb

Goldman Sachs’s Private-Credit Company Struggles to Clean Up Soured Bets

The stock and value of the Goldman Sachs BDC have been falling.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Winners and Losers in a Fannie, Freddie IPO

How parties including John Paulson, Bill Ackman and the Treasury fare depends on how a potential offering is structured.

By

Corrie Driebusch

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Gina Heeb

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

They Share a Mom, a Dad and a Top Goldman Job

The Rivera brothers are the Wall Street giant’s co-heads of Latin America.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

| Photographs by Victor Llorente for WSJ

The Credit-Card Rule That Powers Rewards Cards Just Got Broken

Visa and Mastercard reach a settlement on a 20-year legal fight with merchants, agreeing to allow stores to reject some credit cards for the first time.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

The deal under discussion would lower credit-card interchange fees for merchants, but could make it harder for consumers to use rewards cards at the register.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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Samsung Wants to Launch a U.S. Credit Card and Challenge Apple in Consumer Finance

The South Korean tech giant and Barclays are in advanced talks to launch a credit card, with both seeking bigger inroads into Americans’ financial lives.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Goldman Sachs Promotes 638 Employees to Managing Director Role

In the new group, which is bigger than the last one, the title comes with a typical base salary of around $400,000 and bonuses that can be much larger.

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

Wall Street Expectations Grow as Bonus Season Gets Closer

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AnnaMaria Andriotis

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