Mark Kleinman



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Full name: Mark Kleinman

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The Times: 2010

 * the drug trade helps the Taliban'' - There are not many drug-control activities that do more good than harm - 10th July (writing in the FT)
 * bête noire strikes again'' - One consolation for Gordon Brown if he does get kicked out is that he will no longer have to listen to Mervyn King - 30th April
 * appetite to lash out at Goldman Sachs'' - Doubts have been raised over whether the bank should be barred from government work while it is investigated by the FSA - 23rd April
 * owners chase a Citi player'' - It’s pure coincidence that the failure of English football clubs to reach the later stages of the Champions League has come at the same time that doubt has been cast over their ownership - 16th April
 * shots at executive pay are just cheap'' - Bart Becht's £93 million package has become part of a political issue, but he is among the top-performing executives - 9th April
 * figure pops up in the Red Book’s small print'' - The fingerprints of Lord Myners, the City Minister, were clearly visible on the Budget's approach to executive pay - 27th March
 * could be just the beginning'' - M&A bankers are pinning their hopes on a string of foreign takeovers of British companies in the months ahead - 19th March
 * boss caught in a snub that wasn’t'' - Investors up in arms over postponed meeting, but the date was an error as Tidjane Thiam had an important prior engagement - 12th March
 * by Prudential would stifle UK deals'' - If Pru’s investors force its chief executive to pull out of buying AIA, it would discourage other transformational deals - 5th March
 * Sands bonus dilemma for Lord Myners'' - Shareholders support payment for Standard Chartered chief that unpopular City Minister declared should not be paid - 26th February
 * put on the spot by departure of Sants'' - Departure of the Financial Services Authority chief executive raises some uncomfortable questions for the Conservatives - 12th February
 * Now Blair is really talking business — and he doesn’t mind who to'' - In a television interview, Mr Blair referred to the ‘relationship between politics and business — now that is fascinating’ - 29th January
 * deal puts focus on role of hedge funds'' - Lord Myners, the City Minister, might like to take a look at advisory fee arrangements in the wake of Kraft battle - 22nd January
 * for the brave is yet to be filled as TheCityUK recruits some fresh faces'' - One key role in TheCityUK remains unfilled: chairman of the domestic mandate — that will not be for the faint hearted - 15th January
 * bonus tax puts kibosh on National Investment Corporation'' - New levy hardens resolve of investment banks not to contribute to the Government's National Investment Corporation - 8th January



The Times: 2009

 * City tax on bonuses delights rivals'' - Officials in Frankfurt have been making an aggressive pitch to financial institutions to migrate business from London - 18th December
 * troubles cast doubt on future fundraising'' - Emirate's debt default rollercoaster is placing enormous uncertainty on future initial public offerings and other issues - 1st December
 * Morrison seeks successor to Marc Bolland'' - Speculation grows about candidates for supermarket job, with Waitrose boss Mark Price said to be among the contenders - 24th November
 * suffers double blow after reversal at Reed Elsevier'' - Ian Smith, former chief executive of Reed Elsevier, did not enjoy the best of weeks after being dumped by the publisher - 18th November
 * G20 consensus is harder than it looks'' - As the politicians struggle to present a united front on banking taxes, can the banks themselves get their act together? - 10th November (writing in The Times)
 * street bank competition needs sweeteners'' - As the Government prepares to open up the sector, it will have to do more to encourage a new generation of contenders - 3rd November (writing in The Times)
 * Financial Investments must decide if safe bet is price worth paying'' - Chief executive John Kingman's successor may be announced as early as today and, at the latest, by the end of the week - 27th October



The Telegraph:

 * Ball, declare ITV's boardroom umpires'' - Britain's Got Talent. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Is the latest addition to ITV's autumn programme line-up Anyone but Ball? - 2nd August 2009
 * of economic green shoots need lessons in botany'' - The sharper-than-expected fall in UK economic output announced on Friday shocked those followers of the dismal science who had been expecting a gentler contraction - 26th July 2009
 * 39 steps to solving Lloyds mystery'' - In John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, Richard Hannay, the novel's protagonist, attempts to piece together a mysterious assassination plot that leads him to seek refuge in Scotland - 19th July 2009
 * will find little solace in Walker'' - For those City-bashers hoping that Sir David Walker's report on remuneration and governance would represent a radical overhaul of boardroom practices in the country's banks, this Thursday will bring only bitter disappointment - 12th July 2009
 * rows are damaging British business'' - When Tesco finds itself on the end of a substantial protest vote over executive rewards, it is a telling sign that relations between companies and the investment community are at breaking point - 5th July 2009
 * warning shows Britain is out of credit'' - Demographics is destiny, or so they say. Baleful as the financial crisis has been, painful as is the impact on many households of the housing crash and the rise in unemployment, they still cannot rival the potential threat and impact of the pensions and ageing crisis facing us in the coming decades - 28th June 2009
 * 'Too big to fail' row exposes alarming divide'' - The Punch and Judy show that was last Wednesday's Mansion House dinner could hardly have exposed the divided thinking of the Bank of England Governor and the Chancellor of the Exchequer any more clearly - 21st June 2009
 * deal indicates turn may be close'' - One of the abiding stories that has consistently swirled around Barclays in recent years is the supposedly troubled relationship between executives at the top of the bank - 14th June 2009
 * soap opera demands another scalp'' - It has not been a great 12 months for the boss of any global mining company, but it has been a particularly brutal period for Tom Albanese, the chief executive of Rio Tinto - 7th June 2009 (See: Mining: summary)
 * moment for Royal Mail sale'' - It is now almost six months since the Government announced plans to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail - 31st May 2009
 * of pay rows is an urgent wake-up call'' - As if boardroom recruiters weren’t already finding it difficult enough to land their catches, this year’s round of investor pay rows looks certain to add another category to the list of City pariahs: the chairmen of remuneration committees - 24th May 2009
 * exit is a sorry end to HBOS disaster'' - Sir Victor Blank's decision to fall on his sword at Lloyds Banking Group can either be read as the action of a cynic who is merely good at reading between the lines or an honourable businessman who does not want to become a distraction to the important work going on beneath him - 17th May 2009
 * losing the battle for hearts and minds'' - In the peculiar part-Government, part-private sector world occupied by Lloyds Banking Group, there is obviously a parallel volume of the self-help manual written by Dale Carnegie back in the 1930s: Sir Victor Blank and Eric Daniels, respectively the bank's chairman and chief executive, must have been brushing up on their copies of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - 10th May 2009
 * investors must keep eye on the Ball'' - Few people outside the City have ever heard of Mark Burgess, the investment chief at Legal & General's fund management arm, but he is rapidly becoming one of the most notorious figures inside the boardrooms of blue-chip companies - 3rd May 2009
 * still crucial after Budget debacle'' - Glancing at the newswires last Monday it was as if the world had been catapulted back three-and-a-half years into merger mania - 26th April 2009
 * next Budget is likely to be his last'' - The usual pre-Budget leaks suggest that Alistair Darling's efforts to include a string of eye-catching initiatives aimed at business will not amount to very much - 19th April 2009
 * Varley faces stick-or-twist moment at Barclays'' - Big companies are too cumbersome to be truly entrepreneurial, we are constantly told. So it is worth looking at the business that Barclays agreed to sell last week to CVC Capital Partners for $4.2bn and at what it implies for the bank's board in the weeks ahead - 13th April 2009
 * and Yell haunted by the ghost of banking past'' - Many of the corporate governance pronouncements made by organisations such as Pirc amount to little more than sanctimonious hot air, but the lobby group's advice to vote against Peter Sutherland's re-election as chairman of BP, and the likelihood of a protest vote against Bob Scott's re-election as chairman of Yell, the directories group, are each worthy of careful consideration - 12th April 2009
 * for one, will be keeping my glass half full after this historic summit'' - So was the G20 a success? Will leaders have saved a single job or prevented one business from going under? - 5th April 2009
 * boards must tackle leadership vacuum'' - What do the following FTSE 100 companies have in common: Anglo American, BP, J Sainsbury, Legal & General and Standard Chartered? This quintet of the biggest blue-chip names in British business, are all searching for someone to fill their chairman's office - 5th April 2009
 * proving taxing for ponderous Treasury'' - Royal & Sun Alliance is edging closer to joining the exodus of major companies moving overseas for tax reasons - 15th March 2009
 * black horse is now a lame duck'' - I have no idea if Eric Daniels, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, likes classic Westerns, but I very much doubt that he will enjoy the sight of anyone riding off into the sunset this weekend - 8th March 2009
 * move points to depth of crisis'' - And then there were two. HSBC's decision to tap investors for about £12bn in a share issue to be announced tomorrow means the number of international banks which have stood unsupported since the start of the credit crisis will have diminished still further - 1st March 2009
 * fighting the wrong battles'' - What do Barclays, Premier Foods and Rio Tinto have in common? They operate in unrelated industries but each is in the process of finding out what happens when you dare to interfere with the fundamental tenets of City governance - 22nd February 2009
 * is fast becoming a black hole'' - Wednesday's Treasury Select Committee hearing was significant for what the bankers did not say - 15th February 2009
 * are playing a dangerous game'' - Roll up! There's no doubt where the box office action is going to be this week. On Tuesday morning, the queue for space in the Thatcher Room of Portcullis House will stretch across Westminster - 8th February 2009
 * room for optimism in the snow'' - The 2,500 people who had shelled out a fortune to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos must have wondered why they bothered - 1st February 2009
 * nationalisation of British banks is not the answer'' - The unlikely combination of Jon Moulton and John McFall united last week to call for the immediate wholesale nationalisation of Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland - 26th January 2009
 * debt plan is the last throw of the dice'' - Mervyn Davies' first task as minister for trade is to devise a solution to this phase of the crisis which genuinely draws a line beneath the horrors on the banks' balance sheets - 19th January 2009
 * up to the burdens of the boardroom'' - For the men and women who occupy multiple seats on the boards of major companies, 2009 will be a busier year than usual - 11th January 2009
 * a year of shocks, prepare for more in 2009'' - It's that time of year when business journalists feel compelled to gaze into their crystal balls and prophesy the events of the next 12 months - 29th December 2008
 * and the City making drama out of a crisis'' - Next time I bump into a Treasury official, I’m likely to be tempted to shout: “tax doesn’t have to be taxing” - 14th December 2008
 * of City of London complacency is long overdue'' - In a few days' time, a group of Britain's leading businessmen will present Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, with their recommendations on how to keep the City of London competitive through the current recession and far into the future - 7th December 2008
 * challenge: to pick and mix business survivors'' - Through the national mourning about the collapse of Woolworths last week, I'm sure some sighs of relief were audible from the West End office of Apax Partners, the private equity group - 30th November 2008
 * Citigroup will be bail-out's next chapter'' - Citigroup's crisis is the most palpable evidence so far during this crisis that the merits of existence on a mega-scale for financial institutions have - 23rd November 2008
 * City investors need to pay up or shut up'' - Is the phoney war over between Barclays and the powerful City investors which own its shares, or was it merely the prelude to something nastier? - 16th November 2008
 * freedom fighters are not home bankers'' - Has the Braveheart banking solution for which Scotland has been clamouring arrived at last? - 9th November 2008
 * needs to be engaged or investors will hang up'' - On Thursday evening, I went to a preview screening of Quantum of Solace, the disappointing new James Bond film, hosted by BT - 2nd November 2008
 * businesses are failing. Banks must act now.'' - Finally, last week, Gordon Brown did the decent thing and uttered the 'R’ word - 26th October 2008
 * British banks become puppets of Gordon Brown?'' - 24th October 2008
 * crisis: Independence is now the main prize for Britain's bank bosses'' - It was the West’s banking industry which was supposed to represent a paradigm for China’s, not the other way around - 19th October 2008
 * banking bail-out is no comfort food for small business'' - The situation is now an urgent one, not solely for the banks but for the corporate customers which depend on them - 11th October 2008
 * return unlikely to lift the darkness'' - 5th October 2008
 * place finger on the pulse – and the trigger'' - Every financial crisis generates its contingent of heroes and villains for posterity to applaud or abuse. The crash of 2008 is shaping up to create few of the former and many of the latter - 30th September 2008
 * a Fuld or a Thain becomes part of the AL (after Lehman) banking lexicon'' - New York is a city in which crumbling emblems of capitalism are seared deeper into the collective memory than any other - 23rd September 2008
 * had a tough week but isn't dead'' - New York is a city in which crumbling emblems of capitalism are seared deeper into the collective memory than any other. Since this time last weekend, our assumptions about the solidity of the Big Apple’s remaining pillars of commerce have been well and truly cast aside - 21st September 2008

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Business & City Editors:

 • Damian Reece (The Daily Telegraph) • Mark Kleinman (The Sunday Telegraph) • David Wighton (The Times) • John Waples (The Sunday Times) • John Willman (Financial Times) • Deborah Hargreaves (The Guardian) • Ruth Sunderland (The Observer) • Jeremy Warner (The Independent) • Margareta Pagano (The Independent on Sunday) • Michael Williams (Wall Street Journal Europe)'''

