David Enrich

David Enrich is an American financial journalist and author, who has written extensively about the financial services industry and banking scandals, recently earning a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting. He is the author of four nonfiction books, including the highly successful and influential “The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History,” which was released in 2017.

Enrich, who was born and raised in California, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 2004 and his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2005. He began his career as a financial reporter for The Chicago Tribune, where he covered banks and scandals for five years. In 2009, Enrich moved to New York City to work for The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote extensively about the global banking industry. He won a number of awards for his work, including the Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in reporting.

In 2013, Enrich joined Forbes magazine, achieving great success there with stories centering on the banking industry. He wrote several expose articles, including a story that revealed major European banks were helping clients evade taxes. Enrich’s work at Forbes eventually led to him being shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2016 he shifted gears to become the finance editor at New York Magazine.

Enrich’s first book, “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction,” was published in 2020 and immediately became a New York Times bestseller. The book examines the considerable influence Deutsche Bank had on the financial sector, how it became entwined with the Trump family, and how this connection exposed the conglomerate to a wide variety of scandals.

The following year, Enrich released “The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History.” The book is a meticulous woven narrative of a Wall Street fixed-income trader who orchestrated a decade-long fraud while managing to stay one step ahead of both regulators and the banks themselves. It was lauded as a thoroughly researched and well-crafted look into one of the most complex financial scandals in U.S. history.

In February 2020, Enrich published “Mystery in Malta: Who Killed the Brilliant Journalist Investigating Trump’s Cronies?” The book is an investigation into the gruesome murder of a Maltese journalist that was uncovering corruption within the country’s government, and Enrich’s work to find justice in her case and uncover the ultimate truth behind her death.

Enrich is quickly becoming one of the most prominent financial and investigative journalists working in the United States today, and his four books offer a captivating and detailed look into the world of money and power. With more books in the works, readers can expect him to continue to shine a light into the dark corners of the financial sector, as well as continue to reveal untold stories of hidden scandals.