“How much for you to go to Norwich City?” Whitehall enquired, after the so-called “Yellow Army” received its marching orders back to the Championship in May. “More than £500m,” joked Terry.  At least, Diary presumes he was joking…  Also lending celebrity pulling power to the BGC charity day was the former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, spotted negotiating a £5m CoCo bond deal with a major French bank.  Sadly, Diary was prevented from asking the Scottish football boss for his thoughts on the state of the Union. “That’s offside,” said an aide, sternly.  Instead, this column caught up with BGC’s Glaswegian trader Sandy Wotherspoon, currently having an exciting time on the sterling desk, who has already voted “no” because independence would be an “absolute disaster” for Scotland.  “Alex Salmond has no concrete plans in place for splitting debt, currency or taxation,” said Mr Wotherspoon, who commutes home north of the border each weekend.  “Nobody should vote “yes” for a ‘wait and see what happens’.”  Farewell to Energy UK boss Angela Knight, who has, as we report elsewhere in these pages, stepped down from the industry body after just two years in charge.  The timing of her departure is interesting, coming less than a week after Diary’s sister Sunday column, Dashwood, revealed that Knight has commissioned a “propaganda” video to showcase the sector to government ministers, for which energy suppliers have been asked to contribute £14,000 in return for a starring role.  Diary hopes it wasn’t something we said – and that Knight’s turn in the much-anticipated Energy UK: The Movie still makes the final cut.  Chapel Down, the wine and beer-maker currently courting £1.7m through a crowdfunding campaign, is the first listed company to turn to investor internet dating to raise cash.  It’s also a clever way for shareholders, who receive 33pc discounts on any of the ISDX company’s wines, to get cheap booze.  After some rapid calculations, Diary works out that if readers make the maximum investment of £560 – net £392 after EIS tax deductions – and then work their way through fine English wines with a retail value of £1,187, they’ll (effectively) get their shares for free.  Chapel Down non-exec Nigel Wray, the owner of Saracens rugby club, will drink to that.  Lord Libor is a distant memory.  Almost one year to the day after Icap was fined £55m to settle allegations that some of its employees – including one known to his peers by the aforementioned alias – acted as a conduit for manipulating the yen interest rate benchmark, the interdealer broker has been named “Number One” in the City for interest rate swaps.  “Our reputation… remains important,” says Icap’s global broking CEO, David Casterton. The name of the august body that ranks Icap so highly?
Actor Stephen Fry was among the famous faces who brokered multimillion-pound deals for charity at BGC Partners' annual trade-athon.