9fin announced that Huw Richards is joining the company as Head of Customer Partnerships, based in New York, in a newly created role designed to support customers navigating their own AI transformation efforts.
Richards spent 23 years at JPMorgan, where he led several global debt financing businesses before leading the strategy and execution behind creating the Digital Investment Bank, the unit responsible for embedding technology and data into the firm’s investment banking business. That background gives him insight into both how large institutions buy, build, and adopt new technology and how those same institutions are now approaching AI adoption.
9fin has spent nearly a decade building trust with credit professionals, helping them understand debt markets faster and with greater confidence. More than 350 of the world’s leading banks, asset managers, law firms, and advisers rely on the platform daily for its reporting, analysis, and proprietary data. As AI becomes more embedded in how financial institutions operate, 9fin has been expanding how customers can access its data, including through its platform, APIs, MCP, and a growing set of AI agents built on its proprietary data.
Richards will partner directly with 9fin’s largest customers to understand their AI objectives, identify where 9fin’s data and tools fit into those plans, and help get those capabilities embedded into how institutions operate day to day.
KEY QUOTE:
“In over 30 years in debt capital markets, I’ve not seen a moment as pivotal as this one for unlocking data-led insight. Practitioners are increasingly realizing what we’ve long advocated: AI’s potential is only fully unlocked when it’s grounded in trusted, proprietary data. 9fin has both. The opportunity now is to connect that data directly to the AI-driven workflows of the world’s largest institutions. 9fin is built to lead this next era of AI in debt.”
Huw Richards, Head of Customer Partnerships, 9fin
