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

Men and women have dominated the news this week, or should that be Goldmen and women? Just like a bolt of volatility to February markets, the news last Friday that Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein would stand down as early as the end of the year came out of the blue. It also pushed our team drinks back a few hours (we made up for it).