Martin Vander Weyer is a British financial

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, business editor of ''

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'', and a member of the

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. A

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man (he lives in

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) of

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ancestry, he is the son of Deryk Vander Weyer, who was a London banker with

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, where he rose to Deputy Chairman and later was Deputy Chairman of BT. Martin Vander Weyer spent 15 years in investment banking, working for

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and Barclays in London, Brussels and the Far East. As a journalist, Vander Weyer writes about business, economics and financial morality. He is the business editor and “Any Other Business” columnist of ''The Spectator'' as well as editor of the monthly ''Spectator Business''. He is also a regular contributor to the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and other national publications. He was previously City editor of ''

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''. He is the author of ''Falling Eagle: the Decline of Barclays Bank'' (2000), and ''Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph'' (2006). In August 2015, it was announced that Vander Weyer will take up the role of Patron to the York Union at the

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