Despite the predictions of the Mayans, and the best efforts of Alex and his fellow bankers in the City, the world failed to end in 2012 and instead managed to limp on into 2013. So it's business as usual as Alex heads off to the World Economic Forum at Davos to network with global power brokers, organises a lunch strike in protest a cost-cutting at his bank and is forced to repitch for the account of his long-time client Northern metal-basher Mr Hardcastle.