Mark Kleinman: £1bn Leonardo deal betrays Whitehall toxicity Business Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column How’s this for joined-up government? The chancellor, could not bear to let 3,000 skilled manufacturing jobs at a helicopter factory in Somerset evaporate – or so the story went – because “Rachel cares about keeping the [...]
Mark Kleinman: City would sour on Reeves after bank tax Opinion Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week he tackles what a bank tax would do to Reeves’ hard-earned City cache, a top pick for the new HSBC chair, and Oaknorth’s potential move abroad Will she or won’t she? The question of [...]
Mark Kleinman: Britain should steel itself for unwanted status among G7 Business Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Britain should steel itself for unwanted status among G7 nations Sajid Javid, Greg Clark, Andrea Leadsom, Kemi Badenoch and now Jonathan Reynolds: the list of business secretaries handed the assignment of salvaging Britain’s fast-disappearing steel industry [...]
Mark Kleinman: Kicking the Abbey habit may be harder than it looks for Botin January 23, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. This week, he looks at Santander shifts, a tale of two cities in banking and a canary in the Poundland coalmine Kicking the Abbey habit may be harder than it looks for Botin Is this the [...]
Nationwide must act in members’ interests on Virgin Money deal March 14, 2024 Mark Kleinman writes a weekly column for City A.M., this week on Nationwide, the 'British ISA' and Martin Gilbert's latest venture