Mark Kleinman’s column: WANdisco fiasco, Co-op auction and Chelsea’s misfires August 10, 2023 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man that gets the City talking in his fortnightly City A.M. column. It’s payback time WANdisco? More like WANfiasco. Within weeks of the AIM-listed data software company letting it be known that it was solidifying its ambitions of pursuing a US stock market listing, the [...]
Mark Kleinman: What’s next for BT and the City’s ugliest row of 2023 July 13, 2023 Mark Kleinman, City editor of Sky News, writes fortnightly for City A.M. Germans could be on the line at Jansen-less BT Hanging-up time is fast-approaching for Philip Jansen, whose plan to step down as CEO of BT Group next year – revealed by me last weekend – was confirmed on Monday. Sources have told me [...]
Mark Kleinman on banks, Ocado and London’s IPO market June 29, 2023 Mark Kleinman is City editor at Sky News Politics could push ministers to punish banks This is a cost of living crisis, not a banking crisis: if I had a fiver for every time a senior bank executive had said that to me over the last 18 months, I’d never need another mortgage of my [...]
Mark Kleinman: The must-read City column June 15, 2023 Mark Kleinman, City editor of Sky News, writes fortnightly for City A.M. This week he opines on the ICAEW, Eton's new Provost and the future of the Telegraph
Mark Kleinman’s must-read column: Apollo, Ofgem and Hargreaves Lansdown May 18, 2023 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ Business Editor and writes a must-read column for City A.M. on the biggest business stories of the week Apollo’s failed missions will make take-private landings harder Apollo and ground-breaking missions of accomplishment have long been synonymous. Right now, for the US-based investment firm of the same name, simply getting the [...]
Mark Kleinman: Vodafone’s CEO call, audit watchdog delays and a wave of insolvencies May 4, 2023 It's the column that gets the Square Mile talking, from the man who talks to everybody - Sky News' Mark Kleinman
Mark Kleinman: The CBI’s arrogance has been breathtaking April 20, 2023 The CBI has failed to manage a crisis of its own making, says Sky News' Mark Kleinman in his fortnightly column
Mark Kleinman: This licence to print money may soon run out of road April 6, 2023 How’s that licence to print money going? Not so well if you’re a long-standing investor in De La Rue, the authentication and currency specialist which has managed to squander a market-leading position and hundreds of millions of pounds in shareholder value. Oberthur Technologies, its French-based peer, tabled an indicative offer in 2010 worth 905p-a-share, or [...]
Mark Kleinman: This crisis feels far from over March 23, 2023 Deal of the century or dud of the decade? UBS’s government-orchestrated swoop on Credit Suisse, its historic rival, was one of those moments in global finance that will be debated long after any of those involved in have retired to their lives of Alpine luxury. Make no mistake: this was a state bailout masquerading as [...]
Mark Kleinman: Inside Gousto’s shareholder spat and the exec not afraid to ruffle feathers on London’s corporate exodus March 9, 2023 Sky News’ Mark Kleinman is the man the City reads – and in his fortnightly column for City A.M., he shares his insight and analysis. Gousto cash call leaves a sour taste in the mouth A dominant CEO, a board willing to ignore the interests of small shareholders and a spiralling share price: mix the [...]
