Arash Massoudi is the FT’s finance and markets editor, overseeing global coverage of markets, corporate finance, deals and private capital. Based in London, he also manages the teams behind FT Money and FT Wealth. Arash joined the FT in 2011 after working at the US Department of Commerce and has since reported from London and New York.
His journalism has been recognised for awards for reporting on Tesla, SoftBank, Greensill Capital and HNA Group. In 2024, he was part of the team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of Credit Suisse's collapse.
Arash is the co-creator and edits Due Diligence, the FT's finance and deals newsletter, and helped launch the FT's sport business coverage and Scoreboard newsletter. He also hosts two flagship FT conferences: DD Live and the Business of Football Summit.