Mark Kleinman

Exclusive: RedCat, the pubs group founded by former Greene King chief Rooney Anand and backed by the US-based investor Oaktree Capital, is close to finalising a roughly £90m deal to buy 39 pub hotels from his former employer.

Exclusive: Debbie Wosskow, a start-up founder who co-chairs the government-backed Invest In Women taskforce, is among the candidates to replace Sir Ian Cheshire as chairman of Channel 4, the state-owned broadcaster which is also hunting for a new CEO. https://t.co/vXGSjqinUW

Revealed: The bosses of leading British tech companies including Monzo, OakNorth and Revolut have held talks this morning with Emma Reynolds, the City minister, as the government tries to make a convincing case for them to list in London. https://t.co/XwyLyWCoAH

Exclusive: The merger of Virgin Media O2's Business division with Daisy Group - which should be announced today - will create a B2B telecoms powerhouse with an enterprise value of about £3bn, and second only to BT Group in the UK business telecoms sector. https://t.co/z907p6fPQm

Exclusive: Virgin Media O2 is to merge its business arm with Daisy Group to create the biggest challenger to BT Group in the telecoms and enterprise markets for UK small businesses; VMO2 will own 70% of the venture, while Daisy founder Matt Riley will own 30% of it. More soon.

Exclusive: Monzo, Britain’s biggest digital bank, is preparing to hire bankers within months to work on a listing which could value it at more than £6bn and take place as early as next year; Morgan Stanley is expected to land a plum role on the deal. https://t.co/60hgrA6F9k

Exclusive: Metro Bank is the latest London-listed company to face an investor over its boardroom pay plans after outlining proposals to hand top executives share bonanzas worth up to £60m each if the high street lender hits specific valuation targets. Full story on @SkyNews soon.

Revealed: Roughly 10% of the 177 branches which form Independent Builders Merchant Group are at risk of closure as part of a financial restructuring that will see its lenders, Ares Management and Farallon Capital Europe, taking ownership of the UK-wide network.

Exclusive: The break-up of London-listed media group Centaur will kick off tomorrow when it announces the sale of MiniMBA, its training arm, to Brave Bison, the acquisitive group backed by Rupert Murdoch and run by brothers Oli and Theo Green, for £19m. https://t.co/sitI2S7EYa

Revealed: The bosses of HSBC UK, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group will make their case for the abolition of bank ring-fencing to MPs on the Treasury select committee next week, while Barclays' UK CEO will argue for its retention, in what promises to be an important session.

Exclusive: Christine Hodgson, the chair of FTSE-100 water company Severn Trent, is to take the helm at Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn hotels, after being selected as the preferred candidate to succeed its long-serving chairman, Adam Crozier. https://t.co/EO5Itg13eE

In my column for today's @CityAM, more on the unfolding cyberattack on M&S - and its chief executive's mobile phone; (Sir Mark) Tucker's luck at HSBC was reflected in decades-worth of events; and why a merger of Hovis and Kingsmill kneads to happen. https://t.co/ERnZfbGm6C

Exclusive: Modella Capital, the little-known retail investor which recently agreed to buy WH Smith's high street chain and which also owns Hobbycraft and The Original Factory Shop, has been shortlisted to buy Poundland, the struggling discounter. https://t.co/kk6faCy6vz

Exclusive: Simba Sleep, the mattress-maker which raised tens of millions of pounds from investors before seeing its valuation slashed, has agreed to be taken over by a North American peer (thought to be Fairfax Financial-owned Sleep Country). https://t.co/H3Kh438wll

Exclusive: CVC Capital Partners' evaluation of a potential £6bn offer for Avolta, the Swiss-listed duty-free giant formed from the merger of Autogrill and Dufry, could involve the participation of the Benetton family, which owns a big minority stake. https://t.co/bezoYvPiET

Exclusive: CVC Capital Partners, the buyout firm, is at the early stages of exploring a £6bn takeover bid for Avolta, the duty-free retailer which has a presence in many of the world’s major airports. A deal could be assembled in conjunction with the Benetton family. More soon.

Exclusive: Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society with more than 16m members, is hunting a successor to chairman Kevin Parry, who joined its board in 2016. The search comes months after Nationwide completed the £2.3bn takeover of Virgin Money. https://t.co/25zPwjh2Pz