Claes Bell is a senior banking reporter and mobile editor for Bankrate.com, where he covers consumer banking and works toward optimizing Bankrate’s mobile experience for readers. Claes’s work has won two SABEW Best in Business awards for reporting on financial regulation and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has helped Bankrate conduct original research on personal finance issues and been cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and NPR. In 2014, he earned the right to use a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute, and is the co-author, with Bankrate colleagues, of Future Millionaire’s Guidebook.