Richard is deputy asset-based finance editor at 9fin in London, having joined the team in 2025 from IFR, where he oversaw European securitisation coverage. He previously wrote about hiring and firing as well as market infrastructure and regulation as people & markets editor at GlobalCapital. Before that, he spent six years in New York as the editor of Power Finance & Risk, a project finance and M&A newsletter dedicated to power and renewable energy infrastructure in the Americas. He started his capital markets journalism career in 2014, covering European investment-grade corporate bonds and syndicated loans at GlobalCapital. He has a BA in European Studies and Modern Languages (German and Italian) from the University of Bath and an MA in Translation Studies from Warwick University.