Kara Scannell is a CNN reporter based in Washington, D.C, she joined the network in 2017. Most recently, Scannell was a US senior finance correspondent for the Financial Times. Scannell was previously the US investigations correspondent for the Financial Times, reporting on tax evasion schemes, cyber security breaches and white-collar crime. Scannell also wrote extensively about law enforcement investigations into financial institutions for their role in the credit crisis and covered several insider trading trials.