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Mark Kleinman

@MarkKleinmanSky

Sky News City editor, CityAM columnist; winner, 2021 British Journalism Awards; twice London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year. Charlton Athletic fan.

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Exclusive: Some of Revolution Bars’ night-time economy rivals, including Nightcap and Rekom, have expressed an interest in acquiring part or all of the struggling company as it prepares to raise £12.5m and shut some of its venues in a bid to stay afloat. news.sky.com/story/revoluti…

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Exclusive: Private equity firms including Bridgepoint and Cinven are circling Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, a London-listed company which has a market capitalisation of more than £380m. New Mountain Capital, another buyout group, is also said to be interested. More soon.

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EXCLUSIVE: The government will tomorrow name Nigel Railton, the former boss of National Lottery operator Camelot, as the new chairman of the Post Office; Railton will replace Henry Staunton, who was sacked by business secretary Kemi Badenoch in January. news.sky.com/story/ex-camel…

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Exclusive: A regulatory filing appears to confirm my scoop that BBVA, the Spanish owner of a stake in Atom Bank, has approached rival Sabadell, which owns the high street bank TSB, about a potential merger (despite Sabadell's on-the-record denial to me). news.sky.com/story/spanish-…

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Revealed: The long-standing owner of Space NK, the high street beauty chain, has hired bankers at Raymond James to sell the business nearly six years after it abandoned a previous auction. Manzanita Capital has owned the retailer for more than 20 years. news.sky.com/story/space-nk…

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Revealed: Macquarie, the Australian financial behemoth, is on the brink of a £1.2bn merger of Wavenet, a British managed services business it owns, and a division of Daisy Group, the company founded and run by entrepreneur Matthew Riley. news.sky.com/story/macquari…

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Revealed: Norris Koppel, the founder of Monese, the HSBC-backed fintech, is buying its consumer arm as part of a break-up of the loss-making group that will be announced tomorrow and see the appointment of a new CEO at its b2b division. news.sky.com/story/monese-f…

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Exclusive: ChaChing, a new rewards app that will refund consumers part of brands’ online advertising spend, will be unveiled in the UK tomorrow backed by prominent tech executives such as Alastair Lukies and retailers including Debenhams and TM Lewin. news.sky.com/story/rewards-…

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Exclusive: Helen MacNamara, one of the Whitehall figures fined over the Partygate scandal which engulfed Boris Johnson's premiership, is playing a key role in negotiations over the future of The Daily Telegraph as an adviser to thwarted bidder RedBird IMI. news.sky.com/story/partygat…

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Exclusive: Blackstone is this weekend finalising a revised offer for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the owner of music catalogues performed by the Kaiser Chiefs and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, days after seeing its latest bid trumped by rival suitor Concord Chorus. news.sky.com/story/blacksto…

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Exclusive: Monzo, the British digital bank, is putting the finishing touches to an expanded funding round approaching £500m that will include participation from Hedosophia, one of the early investors in technology giants such as Airbnb, Spotify and Uber. news.sky.com/story/digital-…

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Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, will host a summit of technology company bosses, ministers and officials at Dorneywood next month in an attempt to boost London's flagging stock market amid mounting concerns about an accelerating corporate exodus. news.sky.com/story/hunt-cal…

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Exclusive: A wide coalition of the UK’s financial services trade associations representing thousands of companies including major banks and insurers has written to Jeremy Hunt to lambast the City regulator’s proposals to ‘name and shame’ targets of its enforcement investigations.

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Exclusive: M&G, the owner of Superdry’s flagship store on London’s Oxford Street, has drafted in lawyers to scrutinise a rescue blueprint aimed at ensuring the struggling fashion chain’s survival, ahead of a possible challenge to the restructuring plan. news.sky.com/story/superdry…

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Revealed: Everest, one of Britain’s biggest double-glazing suppliers, has called in administrators from ReSolve after years of financial difficulties, putting hundreds of jobs at risk; the company has been owned by Better Capital for more than a decade. news.sky.com/story/double-g…

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In my column for today’s City A.M., the unfolding bidding war at Hipgnosis Songs Fund, a mysterious plan at the ICAEW to focus on - wait for it - audit quality, and a Treasury special adviser jumps out of the political frying pan into a water industry fire. cityam.com/mark-kleinman-…

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Exclusive: The Premier League is toasting a £40m deal with Guinness parent Diageo to become the new beer partner of English football’s top flight, even as it faces closer scrutiny over its financial affairs ahead of the advent of an independent regulator. news.sky.com/story/premier-…

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Exclusive: Investors in Getir are to pump tens of millions of pounds more into the struggling fast-delivery grocery platform to help fund its withdrawal from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands and refocus on its domestic Turkish operations. news.sky.com/story/geitr-in…

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