Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon, who succeeded Lloyd Blankfein this week, is adamant his bankers pursue other interests away from the office, citing his own new found passion for DJing. Such interest in their welfare may well be inspired by his own dome

The London Stock Exchange’s très raffiné ex-boss Xavier Rolet has been approached about a role with billionaire Tory donor Sir Michael Hintze’s hedge fund CQS, according to Sky. CQS’s board is already one of the most illustrious in the City. It includes the former chief of the defence staff Lord Richards, former City minister Lord Myners and the Prince of Wales’s former private secretary Sir Michael Peat. Upwardly mobile Xavier, 58, will be like a piggy in swill. Mark Carney has an ‘almost embarrassing’ enthusiasm for Radio 4’s intellectual discussion programme In Our Time, or so says its presenter Melvyn Bragg. Might Dr Carney be persuaded to appear on the show before he departs? Predecessor Mervyn King signed off by agreeing to Desert Island Discs, but that might be unsuitable now its hosted by former pop star Lauren Laverne, who’s prone to silliness. The Governor would be more at home among Melvyn and his fellow chin strokers. The timing of reports that ex-Chelsea football executive Peter Kenyon is putting together a bid for Newcastle United fails to excite long-suffering fans who will hope this doesn’t mean owner Mike Ashley will avoid spending money in the January transfer window. After all, it was exactly this time last year that financier Amanda Staveley’s ill-fated bid for the club first became public. Makers of last night’s mildly terrifying BBC2 documentary The Bank That Almost Broke Britain, which chronicled Royal Bank of Scotland’s 2008 meltdown, convinced most of the saga’s big players to be interviewed – Mervyn King, Alistair Darling etc. But sadly not RBS’s disgraced boss Fred Goodwin. He continues to live a Howard Hughes-like existence in his native Edinburgh. Locals say sightings remain as infrequent as the Himalayan Yeti.