Chief Markets Correspondent – Digital Finance & Financial Markets

Salary: £80,000–£120,000
Location: [Insert London/Remote]
Sector: Financial Journalism | Digital Finance | Cryptocurrency | Markets

Our client is on a mission to become the most trusted source of digital finance news, market intelligence and research. Combining world-class journalism with in-depth market analysis, they deliver independent, authoritative reporting that helps investors, institutions and industry professionals make informed decisions.

Their editorial team brings together experienced financial journalists and specialist market analysts to produce high-quality news, investigative reporting and research-driven insights across the rapidly evolving digital finance landscape.

The Role

As Chief Markets Reporter, you will play a pivotal role in leading coverage of global digital finance markets, identifying the stories that matter most and delivering exclusive, insightful reporting.

You’ll cover everything from cryptocurrency market movements, blockchain technology and digital assets to exchanges, institutional adoption, regulation and macroeconomic trends influencing the sector.

This role requires someone who thrives on breaking news, producing in-depth features and providing balanced, evidence-based analysis. You’ll approach stories with healthy scepticism, critically evaluating industry narratives, project founders and venture capital-backed hype cycles while delivering journalism readers can trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Report on major developments across cryptocurrency and digital asset markets.
• Produce exclusive news, market analysis and long-form investigative features.
• Monitor market-moving events, regulation and emerging industry trends.
• Build and maintain relationships with key market participants, investors, analysts and industry leaders.
• Develop proprietary news stories through strong source networks.
• Attend major digital finance, blockchain and fintech conferences and industry events.
• Collaborate with journalists and research analysts to deliver high-impact editorial content.
• Apply rigorous editorial standards and a critical, independent perspective to all reporting.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced financial journalist with a proven track record of covering financial markets and producing agenda-setting news.

You’ll have:

• Significant experience reporting on financial markets or investment news.
• Strong knowledge of the digital finance, cryptocurrency, blockchain or digital asset industry.
• An established network of industry contacts and the ability to develop trusted sources.
• Experience identifying exclusive stories and breaking market-moving news.
• A solid understanding of wider financial markets, banking, investment management and macroeconomics.
• Excellent research, interviewing and investigative journalism skills.
• The confidence to challenge market narratives and deliver independent, evidence-led reporting.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing publication committed to producing trusted, high-quality journalism in one of the world’s fastest-evolving financial sectors.

You’ll work alongside experienced journalists and analysts, influence editorial direction and become a recognised voice covering digital finance, cryptocurrency markets and institutional investment.

If you’re passionate about financial journalism and want to shape the conversation around digital assets and global markets, we’d love to hear from you.

M&A Reporter – EMEA

Our client is a leading global business intelligence provider, renowned for delivering exclusive, pre-deal M&A intelligence to investment banks, private equity firms, corporates, and advisory professionals worldwide. Due to continued growth, they are seeking an experienced M&A Reporter to join their expanding editorial team covering the EMEA region.

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious financial journalist to cover real-time M&A, private equity, and financing activity across the EMEA digital infrastructure, telecommunications, and technology sectors. Working alongside a highly respected international editorial team, you will produce market-leading intelligence and break exclusive stories that influence dealmakers and investors across the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Report on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital raises, and strategic transactions across EMEA.
• Generate exclusive, off-market and off-the-record M&A stories through a strong network of industry contacts.
• Develop and maintain relationships with senior executives, investment bankers, private equity professionals, advisers, and sector specialists.
• Conduct interviews and attend industry events, conferences, and meetings across key European and Middle Eastern financial centres.
• Collaborate with colleagues across international editorial teams to deliver timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence.
• Produce high-quality, market-moving content under tight deadlines while maintaining exceptional editorial standards.

Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in financial journalism, business reporting, legal journalism, or M&A intelligence.
• Strong understanding of M&A, private equity, leveraged finance, and capital markets.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate sources and break exclusive news stories.
• Excellent writing, research, interviewing, and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness and a genuine interest in corporate finance and dealmaking.
• Willingness to travel across EMEA as required.

Why Join?

• Be part of a highly respected and rapidly growing business intelligence organisation.
• Cover high-profile, market-moving transactions across one of the world’s most active dealmaking regions.
• Gain exposure to leading investors, corporates, and advisers throughout EMEA.
• Work within a collaborative, international editorial environment.
• Excellent opportunities for career progression and professional development.
• Competitive salary, performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits package.

Our client is a leading business intelligence provider specialising in Digital Infrastructure M&A and financing. As part of their ongoing growth, they are seeking a talented Copy Editor to join their London-based editorial team.

This is a pivotal role within a fast-paced, proprietary intelligence (PI)-driven newsroom, delivering data-rich, market-leading content on the digital infrastructure sector.

You will collaborate closely with editors, reporters, and data specialists to produce high-quality, accurate, and commercially valuable content for a senior audience of investors, advisors, and corporate leaders.

As a Copy Editor, you will be responsible for editing and refining proprietary intelligence articles, analysis, and data-driven content, ensuring speed, accuracy, and consistency across all editorial output. This includes working on complex M&A and financing stories, enhancing structure and clarity, verifying financial and factual details, and ensuring compliance with legal and editorial standards.

You will also play a key role in improving editorial processes, supporting reporters and editors, and helping to scale both output and quality in line with the company’s growth strategy.

Join a leading global provider of news and analysis on the credit markets, specializing in private credit, leveraged finance, and distressed companies reporting. With offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, our client delivers trusted, actionable intelligence to hedge funds, investment banks, management consultants, and law firms worldwide.

They are seeking a talented financial journalist to cover the fast-growing private credit market from Asia, with a focus on private equity buyouts, auction processes, deal financing, refinancing, and dividend recaps. I this role you will be speaking to contacts within major private credit funds to break off-diary stories and deliver impactful industry insights.

You will collaborate with highly regarded financial journalists, editors, legal experts, and credit analysts, producing in-depth credit market news, thematic analysis, and industry trend pieces. This opportunity is ideal for a journalist passionate about private credit reporting, with strong networking and relationship-building skills to uncover market-moving stories. You will be joining a team of very talented reporters and editors in a growing, highly entrepreneurial company that offers great promotional prospects.

My client, a leading business intelligence provider specialising in pre-deal M&A news, is seeking an experienced M&A Reporter to join its growing editorial team in London.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a financial journalist to cover real-time M&A and financing deals across the fast-growing Asia-Pacific (APAC) digital infrastructure and telecoms sector. You will work closely with the Asia team, contributing to one of five weekly publications delivering market-leading, primary-sourced intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Report on M&A deals, private equity activity, and financing transactions in APAC
• Break exclusive, off-the-record M&A stories through trusted industry sources
• Build and maintain relationships with senior dealmakers, executives, and advisors
• Conduct in-person meetings and international travel to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other financial hubs
• Produce accurate, timely, and high-impact financial news content

Requirements

• Proven experience in financial journalism, legal journalism, or M&A reporting
• Strong understanding of M&A, private equity, and capital markets
• Ability to develop sources and break exclusive stories
• Excellent writing, research, and communication skills
• Willingness to travel internationally across APAC

Why Apply?

• Join a respected global business intelligence firm
• Work on high-value, market-moving M&A stories
• Gain exposure to APAC financial markets and deal activity
• Excellent career progression opportunities in a growing publication
• Competitive salary + bonus

This is a key role with a growing news organisation who are building a team of journalists across the globe to cover the Crypto Currency market. They have ambitions to become the most respected global news providers in this space and are looking for journalists to deliver a mix of brief market updates, developments around technology and policy and more in-depth analysis that helps broaden readers understanding, as well as looking at how macro events impact the market.

This role will suit someone with a proven track record in journalism – particularly within crypto and/or financial markets – or market intelligence and wants to make a significant impact in a fast-paced news environment.

Responsibilities

Research & Writing

• Monitor crypto assets/markets and track breaking crypto market news and macroeconomic events, identifying relevant angles for original reporting.
• Follow crypto’s impact on emerging markets, global policy shifts, and cross-market implications.
• Create innovative story ideas and pitch ideas to editors for new ways of reporting that distinguish our information service from the crowd.
• Produce a mix of concise news pieces and more creative, insightful long-form articles.

A leading financial news and data publisher is seeking an experienced CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligation) reporter or leveraged loans journalist to join its New York newsroom. This is an exceptional opportunity for a motivated financial reporter to expand their coverage across U.S. CLO markets, leveraged loans, structured credit, and capital markets news.

In this role, you will be responsible for breaking high-impact CLO and structured credit news, covering major U.S. market developments, primary and secondary deal activity, regulatory changes, and manager trends. You will also produce in-depth analysis, feature stories, and market commentary across both digital and print platforms. The position offers unparalleled access to senior figures across the U.S. structured credit ecosystem, including arrangers, CLO managers, investors, syndicate desks, and legal advisers.

This role is ideal for:

• A current financial or loans reporter seeking more responsibility and deeper coverage of the U.S. CLO market, or

• A seasoned business journalist with strong expertise in structured credit, CLOs, or leveraged finance who wants to work closely with a managing editor to influence editorial strategy.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience covering the U.S. leveraged loan, CLO, or structured credit market.

• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex financing structures.

• A strong desire to break exclusive news and cultivate market sources.

• Outstanding writing skills with the ability to produce fast, accurate news and thoughtful long-form analysis.

What’s on Offer

• Highly competitive salary plus performance-based bonus.

• Excellent long-term career progression within a respected financial media organization.

• Opportunities to write trend pieces, deep-dive analysis, and market-moving reporting across the U.S. CLO and leveraged loan markets.

• A collaborative and well-connected editorial team with direct access to senior market participants.

A leading financial publication is seeking an experienced CLO (Collateralised Loan Obligation) reporter or loans markets journalist to join its London newsroom. This is a standout opportunity for a highly motivated professional who wants to expand their coverage across CLO markets, leveraged loans, structured credit, and capital markets news.

In this role, you will deliver high-impact CLO news, breaking stories on major market developments, deal activity, regulatory changes, and issuer trends. You will also produce in-depth analysis, features, and market commentary for both digital and print platforms. The position offers access to senior market participants, arrangers, managers, investors, and syndicate desks—giving you a unique vantage point into the European structured credit market.

This role is ideal for:

• A current financial or loans reporter seeking greater responsibility and deeper market coverage, or

• A seasoned journalist with strong experience in the CLO or loan markets looking to work closely with a managing editor and shape editorial strategy.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience covering the loans market or, ideally, the CLO / structured credit market.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex deals.

• A proactive attitude and passion for breaking news and developing exclusive content.

• Excellent writing skills and the ability to deliver both fast-turnaround news and high-quality feature pieces.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary (£70k–£100k) plus performance-based bonus.

• Strong career progression within a respected financial media publisher.

• The opportunity to broaden your remit with trend pieces, in-depth analysis, and market-moving reporting.

• A collaborative editorial team and direct access to senior figures in the leveraged finance and CLO markets.