Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent
Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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FSA reveals extent of swaps mis-selling
Most of the complex interest-rate hedging products, or “swaps”, purchased by small businesses had been mis-sold to them by banks, a Financial Services Authority report concludes.
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Burgergate investigation leaves unanswered questions
Supermarket Tesco has dropped its frozen burger supplier Silvercrest after an investigation into horse meat found in its burgers. But questions remain over the true source of the rogue ingredient.
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Flaws in PPI selling known about for years
Top executives at Lloyds TSB were warned that payment protection insurance was being mis-sold four years before they stopped selling the product, it is revealed.
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Tesco and Sainsbury’s in dispute over sales figures
A war of words over Christmas trading figures has broken out between two of Britain’s largest supermarkets, with a Sainsbury’s executive claiming Tesco’s sales figures were “disingenuous”.
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What 2012 taught us, by Siobhan Kennedy
The meaning of a financial acronym went from market floor to pub quiz in 2012 – Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy explains what Libor was all about.
