Remember James Elgeti, the Bath University undergraduate who, in his efforts to land a job in the City, took to the streets of London’s financial districts wearing a sandwich board with the slogan “You have the ability to kick-start my career in banking. Talk to me.”?

Well, it seems persistence and innovation are still rewarded in the financial industry, so many congratulations to Elgeti, who is set to start at Royal Bank of Scotland after landing a spot on the group's graduate programme for corporate banking, a unit that employed 13,100 staff and generated £1.5bn in operating profits in the UK last year.