Welcome to FN Weekend, your Friday smörgåsbord of the best news, features and opinion from Financial News this week.
Festive greetings one and all and welcome to your last FN Weekend of 2017. I realise I am preaching to an empty church, with most sensible folk already queuing for their turkeys or scrambling for Apple watches, golf clubs and cocktail shakers — this year's must-have gifts, according to a recent Financial News poll of City bosses.