The dastardly Mr Deedes

Workers at the Financial Conduct Authority are nervous about their move from Canary Wharf to Stratford next year. An employee survey says staff at the City regulator have expressed ‘significant concerns’ over Stratford’s safety, particularly over ‘knife crime and gangs’. FCA bosses have now agreed to provide taxis home for anyone working later than 9pm to quell their jitters. Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein, 63, recently announced on Twitter that he was looking forward to spending more time in Frankfurt, a thinly-veiled threat to relocate London staff after Brexit. Will bearded Lloyds’s graceful wife Laura be keen to swap bustling London for boring Frankfurt when they visit Europe? She was in her element when I spotted her dining at Mayfair’s packed-tothe-rafters Arts Club on Monday night. Marks & Spencer’s branch on Paris’s Champs-Elysees finally closed yesterday, after the retailer’s pragmatic boss Steve Rowe, 50, deemed it a wasteful extravagance. The store was a vanity project of Rowe’s predecessor Marc Bolland, 58, who opened it to great fanfare in 2011. Posing for the media while clasped to sultry undercrackers model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 30, the refined bachelor resembled a crazed Bond villain parading his reluctant arm candy. Christopher Bailey’s departure from Burberry prompts speculation that his boss Marco Gobbetti has already lined up Celine’s eflin-like creative director Phoebe Philo, 44, as his replacement. The pair worked hand-in-glove together at LVMH until sweet-talking Marco, 57, jumped ship and replaced Bailey as Burberry chief executive in July. A nest of vipers the fashion industry, isn’t it? Bloomberg’s new £1bn offices overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral are equipped with high-tech vaccum lavatories similar to the ones used on aeroplanes, which the ecologically-aware company boasts will save 25m litres of water a year. All cisterns go!