Siobhan Kennedy

Business Correspondent
Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Correspondent, and her beat includes everything from industrial action and the long term impact of the recession to where growth is coming from in the economy.
Siobhan Kennedy is the Business Correspondent, and her beat includes everything from industrial action and the long term impact of the recession to where growth is coming from in the economy.

Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008, from The Times. As a newspaper reporter she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent, and before that the Mergers and Private Equity Correspondent. Before The Times, Siobhan worked for Reuters based in London and New York.

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post 17 May 2013
Are Marks & Spencer missing a trick with online shopping?

Why is Marks & Spencer shunning online retail? Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy explores the growth of online, and if M&S is missing a trick.

16 May 2013
post 16 May 2013
Google in the hot seat - but HMRC feeling the heat

Matt Brittin, Google's boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.

post 14 May 2013
Will other retailers follow Primark's lead on Bangladesh?

For the first time since the devastating collapse of a nine-storey factory that killed over 1,120 garment workers on 24 April, Primark is able to peek its head above the parapet.

article 10 May 2013 UK
Nuclear reactor plan is on course says minister
Nuclear reactor plan on course - video

The new Energy Minister Michael Fallon has told Channel 4 News that the push to build new nuclear reactors is on course.

post 24 April 2013
Welcome to Siobhan Kennedy's new blog

Siobhan Kennedy cuts through the daily barrage of business news, from banks to energy firms to retail to regulators. Read her take on the day¿s big stories, with just a little bit of mischief too.

23 April 2013
article 19 April 2013 UK
London stock exchange
UK credit rating downgraded

A second credit-rating agency has downgraded the UK's prospects. Fitch followed Moody's in removing Britain's coveted triple A status. Our Business Correspondent, Siobhan Kennedy reports.

article 18 April 2013 Business
Former head of Barclays Bank's investment arm, Rich Ricci (Getty)
Fired or retired? Rich Ricci and Barclays bank part ways

The controversial and aptly named head of Barclays investment arm Rich Ricci has left the bank, but not before he was able to cash in nearly £18 million in shares just weeks ago.

article 11 April 2013 Business
Former HBOS chief executive Andy Hornby (Getty)
Former HBOS chief Hornby due £240,000 pension in 2017

Damned by a parliamentary committee for toxic leadership of HBOS, Andy Hornby remains eligible to draw his £240,000 pension at 50 and still has his job running bookmakers Coral. Is this right?

article 09 April 2013 Business
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby says he will ask for his knighthood to be removed and will forego 30 per cent of his pension after last week's report into the bank's collapse.
Former HBOS CEO Crosby asks to forego knighthood

Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby says he will ask for his knighthood to be removed and will forego 30 per cent of his pension after last week's report into the bank's collapse.

article 28 March 2013 Business
RBS to be sued by investors (Getty)
Investors sue RBS over 2008 emergency fundraising

Top level investors who stumped up to help RBS weather the financial crisis, now claim key documents around an emergency share sale were inaccurate and misleading, and are suing the bank for millions.

video 26 March 2013 UK

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US firm to run search and rescue helicopters in UK

A new job for Prince William? Britain's search and rescue helicopter service will be run by US firm Bristow Helicopters rather than the RAF and Royal Navy, as Siobhan Kennedy reports.

article 21 March 2013 Business
Barclay's Rich Ricci (Getty)
Has Barclays bank really turned over a new leaf?

After sneaking out news of multi-million pound payouts to top staff on budget day, can we believe Barclays has turned over a new leaf? Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy thinks not.

11 March 2013
video 28 February 2013

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Is RBS boss Hester embarrassed by bonus? Video

RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester tells Channel 4 News Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy that rewarding bankers' success should not be "something to be ashamed of". Watch the extended interview.

article 21 February 2013 UK
News
Now that is what I call magic, Treasury style...

Even with some fiscal hocus pocus that gives the Treasury an extra £3.8bn, government borrowing in the year to date is still worse than this time last year. And that should worry the chancellor.

article 12 February 2013 UK
Bonuses are up at Barclays despite promises to reform the bank's culture (Getty)
When it comes to bonuses, does Barclays really 'get it'?

Siobhan Kennedy uncovers some numbers in the Barclays accounts which suggest that - on bonuses at least - the bank might not "get it" in the way its chief executive promises after all.

article 05 February 2013 UK
Mark Carney, the soon-to-be governor of the Bank of England (picture: Reuters)
Can Carney wield his wand to heal UK's wounded economy?

Great things are expected of Canada's Mark Carney, the new Bank of England governor. But questions are now being asked about the health of the economy he leaves behind.

article 01 February 2013 UK
Barclays boss forgoes bonus
Barclays boss forgoes bonus

It's amazing isn't it, that five years on from the banking crisis, bank bosses are still having to forego their bonuses for bad behaviour. Today it was the turn of Antony Jenkins.