Loan Ranger: Fuzzy heads and Alka-Seltzer

On Thursday night Barclays took refuge away from the protesters at St Paul's, the original venue for the bank's annual November syndicated loans bash, and ended up cramming Christ Church Spitalfields with what felt like the entire loan market. A shame really — the possibility of the spectacle of rosy-cheeked bankers confronting the great unwashed on a mild Thursday night is one that won’t pop up again for a while.