I worked for 12 years as a business and financial correspondent for a leading international news wire, with postings in London, New York and Paris.

I took up freelance translations six years ago, specialising in banking, fund management, investment research, market reports and corporate news.

My linguistic skills are backed by a varied and solid knowledge of financial concepts, terminology and real-life situations gained in my previous career and as a private investor.

I work extremely fast and take pride in producing idiomatic, neat and crisp copy in the target language.

Here's a customer testimonial (banking industry):

"Our conference went very well. We received the documents in time and the translations were much appreciated by our French colleagues. Everything went accordingly to plan and the event was a success! So thank you very much for your valuable contribution! You seem to have an excellent grasp of our business!! Well done - I am impressed!"

And another from one of my regular agencies:

"You've been great to work with, and always thoroughly professional and reliable. We've always had nothing but positive feedback on your work, and you're one of the few people we know we can rely on absolutely."