Steve Gelsi has been a full-time journalist since the late 1980s and a financial journalist since roughly 1998. He rejoined MarketWatch in late 2021 and currently works as senior reporter covering banking and cannabis after working there from 1998 until 2013. He was the first dot-com journalist to perform in the NYFWA’s Follies in 1999 and became president of the NYFWA in 2008. Other experience includes M&A and private markets reporter for The Deal and private equity reporter for Buyouts/Pehub.com.