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Mark Kleinman

Mark Kleinman

Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor.  He was previously City Editor of The Sunday Telegraph and prior to that, he reported from Hong Kong on Asia's rapidly-evolving role in the global economy for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. He made his name as the mergers and acquisitions correspondent for The Sunday Times, where he broke a string of exclusive stories about major takeover deals.

Since joining Sky News in September 2009, Mark has broken a series of agenda-setting off-diary stories, both on-air and through his ‘Kleinman’ blog. His biggest scoops include the takeover of Harrods by the Qatari royal family, the news of Tony Hayward’s resignation as chief executive of BP, and the decision of Liverpool FC’s owners to put the club up for sale. His major on-screen interviews include the chief executives of Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Mark led the way with news of the 2010 round of bonuses in the banking industry, revealing that Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, was imposing a pay cap on its senior London-based staff in response to the UK Government’s tax on bank bonuses. He was also first to report that plans for the levy were being drawn up by the Treasury, as well as the bonus plans of all the major UK banks.

Among his other scoops were Prudential’s controversial £24bn bid for the Asian insurer AIA; Tate & Lyle’s sale of its historic British sugars business; the poaching of Marc Bolland to become the new boss of Marks & Spencer; and secret plans by a group of Manchester United supporters calling themselves the Red Knights to assemble an offer for the Premier League club.

Mark gained a BA in English Lit at the University of York in 1998 and began his career as a reporter on a number of business magazines, before moving to the Sunday Express in 2004.

In 2006, while working for the paper, Mark won ‘Best Scoop’ at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards for his story about the takeover of P&O, the British ports and ferries operator, by Dubai Ports World.

His Sky News blog focuses on breaking exclusive stories, as well as offering analysis of the biggest stories in the City and the world of business. It can be found at skynews.com/kleinman.

Mark also writes a weekly business column for the Financial Times.