While Kidby is routinely greeted by hordes of screaming fans on the steps of Atlantic House, another City heavyweight was caught rather by surprise when he found himself in the middle of a similarly volatile crowd.

While on holiday recently in La Paz, Bolivia, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham corporate bigwig Kevin Dean stumbled into the midst of a gaggle of over-excited coca farmers protesting about, among other things, the effects of globalisation on the economy of the nation, where a third of the population lives on less than $1 (56p) a day.