Welcome to FN Weekend, your Friday smörgåsbord of the best news, features and opinion from Financial News this week.

It’s deputy online elf Liz taking the reins of the news sled today as Fareed is stocking up on presents in the West End. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at FN Towers, particularly as it is Christmas Jumper Day and one of the team has received a Norwegian Pine constructed entirely from Maltesers. And while the Spirit of Mariah Carey is in full flow in the newsroom, there has been a sprinkling of good cheer in the City too, albeit with the occasional Scrooge moment thrown in…