He served as a Washington correspondent covering Congress, the White House and federal regulatory agencies for several regional newspapers including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Wisconsin State Journal and the Philadelphia Daily News.

On October 17, 2013, a British judge ordered Enrich and The Wall Street Journal to comply with a request by the UK's Serious Fraud Office prohibiting the newspaper from publishing names of individuals in the government's ongoing investigation into the Libor scandal.

[citation needed] His book, The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History, was published in March 2017 to critical acclaim.

Bloomberg Businessweek called it an "exhaustively reported tale" and author Harlan Coben praised it as a "terrific nonfiction book."

Harper Collins, its publisher, described the work as a "never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality."