In-house lawyers at Citibank in London are funding their Christmas party by raffling their holiday homes.

The legal and compliance team at Citi holds a raffle every year. Half the money raised goes towards its bash and the other half goes to charity. All jolly good, it's a very worthy cause, and team members have found it in their hearts to donate four luxury villas.

At least one of the homes belongs to a senior honcho in the group - a villa in Chamonix is apparently named after the managing director who owns it. Now that's tasteful. But some of them are owned by more junior lawyers (or, presumably, their families), and one property in Tuscany is understood to belong to the office manager. In-house at a bank is clearly the way to go...

The weekend bolthole of Citi's outdoor clerk

It's extremely classy of the lawyers at Citi to offer up their homes. A snap poll at RoF Towers came up with offers of an old phone charger and some rugby-themed sweets originally sent in by Clifford Chance. Even back in the day when I was at a law firm we'd generally get a few bottles of wine, re-gifted bubble bath and paperbacks. Maybe a partner would donate a day's golf or some theatre tickets. But a week in his villa in Chianti? A week in four villas? Not a chance.