Eric Bank – Expert Financial and Business Writer

Background

Eric Bank is a freelance writer who specializes in business and financial writing. He has worked with clients of all sizes from all over the world, including Fortune 50 companies, small businesses, and not-for-profits. He has been covering business and finance topics since 1985, specializing in taking complex subjects and explaining them in simple terms for consumer audiences. Eric’s writing regularly appears on Credible, Cardrates.com, BadCredit.org.

He is an expert at creating content that is engaging and informative for audiences who are unfamiliar with the topic. His writing style is conversational and easy to understand, making even complex topics easy to digest. You can contact him on Linkedin.

Education

His education includes graduate degrees in finance and business administration.

• 1969 – 1973 – BA, Biology, New York University;
• 1976 – 1981 – MBA, Computer Applications, NYU Stern School of Business;
• 1996 – 2001 – MS, Finance, DePaul University.

Licenses & certifications

• Agile Scrum Master
• Java Associate, Sun Microsystems

Work Experience

Eric Bank worked 19 years (1973 – 1992) at Eric Bank Consulting as a programmer, analyst, project manager, and New York-based self-employed consultant. His clients included Nestles, Bank of Tokyo, NBC, New York Telephone, Viacom, ITT, Insurance Service Office. Developed dozens of systems.

From 1993 to 2002, he worked as a director and business analyst at Citadel Investment Group. He produced specifications for numerous applications, including trade entry, stock lending, master feeder, and partnership accounting. Work products included feasibility studies, buy/build analysis, requests for proposals, business requirements, UML/workflows, object-oriented programming specifications, data design, and test plans.

Previously, he was a C++ software engineer at Citadel. At this position, Eric Bank designed and programmed several large, complex hedge fund systems for trade entry, accounting, and database applications. The environment included Unix/Sybase, OI interface, STL, design patterns. Eric Bank worked closely with front- and back-offices in rapid application development.

In January 2003, he started his career in freelancing on EricBank.com. He has written over 1,500 articles for Demand Media Studios. Now, Eric creates web content, writes and edits articles and blogs for clients around the world.