Asset-Based Finance Reporter

9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion.

Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets.

Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption.

We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.

Every day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on:

• Break News — Hunting down deals and uncovering private financings and scoopy trades. Peel away the layers and reveal the real motivations and drivers for transactions

• Meeting the market — You’ll build out a broad and deep set of sources within the thousands of people working in asset-based finance, securitization and private credit, cultivating relationships and becoming a key part of the information flow

• Spotting trends and writing features — You’ll zoom out from the dealflow to see the bigger picture and publish timely and comprehensive features on emerging issues and trends

• Cutting through the jargon — You’ll learn to parse a market that loves an acronym and become fluent in finance-speak, translating it into clean sparkling copy

This role will be a great fit if you:

• Are a source-driven newshound that can build and maintain a great contact book

• Have experience reporting on asset-backed markets or other relevant areas such as real estate, infrastructure, derivatives, fintech lending, or mortgages

• Relish writing pithily and plainly about technical topics

• Aren’t afraid of digging into the numbers

• Competitive Salary: $100,000-140,000 (depending on experience)

• Equity options

• 401(k) (9fin pay 3%, employee contributions are uncapped)

• Private Health Insurance, with Dental and Vision

• Paid sick leave

• Disability Insurance (New York)

• Commuter Benefit

• 25 vacation days per year

• Local public holidays

• Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work

• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year

• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service

• Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available

• Professional learning and development budget

• AI experimentation budget of $1,000 per employee to trial AI tools

• Bi-annual team socials

• Summer and Winter company social events

Do you want to cover a market that will expand your mind? Asset-based finance is the hottest thing in private credit, and touches on multiple areas of markets, including banks, mortgages, commercial real estate, corporate lending, fund finance, buy-now-pay later and more, so that no day is the same. The public markets are the tip of the iceberg and there’s always a new stone to turn over in this innovative and complex field. You could be covering the collapse of firms like Tricolor and First Brands, innovative startups barely a year old rolling out the clean energy transition, capital to fuel the next generation of AI models or lending against the buildings you see each day.

9fin has a great track record of building out new products, and asset-based finance is next, giving a great canvas for the right journalist to make their mark. There’s space to innovate, shape a beat and make it your own, with the support to guide you as you get up to speed. Join us on this journey!

- Owen Sanderson, ABF Editor

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.