Kate Davidson is a banking policy reporter for POLITICO Pro. Prior to joining POLITICO in November 2012, Kate spent three years at American Banker, where she covered the Treasury Department and federal banking regulators, including the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She also spent a year at Congressional Quarterly covering the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law.

Before moving to Washington in 2008, Davidson worked for the Concord Monitor in Concord, N.H., where she wrote about NASCAR, advancements in maple sugaring technology, the first-in-the-nation presidential primary and everything in between. She got her first job in journalism covering education for her hometown paper, the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Davidson graduated from Boston University in 2004.