Credit ratings agency S&P still expects the ECB to raise interest rates for the first time in eight years next September, despite growing sentiment of late that no rate rise is likely until the very end of 2019 at the earliest.

It’s the year of the python in the land of job recruitment — but then, 2015 is also shaping up to be a good one for tax advisers, cyber-security experts, accountants, and money-laundering monitors.