City Diary: SFO not guilty of conflict of interest ... says SFO If only the SFO's probe into whether Autonomy "inflicted billions of dollars of harm" on HP - running at 21 months and counting - could be settled so swiftly. Could it soon be last orders at the London Capital Club? The members" haunt for the City's "key players" made a loss of £563,377 over the year to December 2013, at which point the club's liabilities exceeded its assets by £5.2m. Owing to the shortfall, the club's auditor, Harold Sharp, records "significant doubt" over the company's ability to continue as a going concern. The London Capital Club is owned by Dieter Klostermann, the German leisure entrepreneur who also runs Brocket Hall (below), the ancestral seat of insurance fraudster Lord Brocket, as a golf hotel. Unfortunately, that venture is on shaky ground too. Last week, Diary learned that losses at Brocket Hall International increased to £1.55m last year, shadowed by a £16.5m bank debt. It seems Mr Klostermann could use a stiff drink. Martin Clarke, the former private equity heavyweight dubbed "Sledgehammer" for his no-nonsense approach, isn't a fan of his nickname. Mr Clarke, who left the buyout world to become finance director at the motoring business the AA, doesn't think it's appropriate and claims to have no idea how he got the sobriquet. He's also got an alternative. "I think "pussycat" would be better," he told Diary, adding that he suspects one of this column's former colleagues gave him the Sledgehammer moniker. Tony Hayward, the boss of Kurdistan-focused Genel Energy, warned this week that 75pc of the oil producers operating in the region will be out of business within five years. So should investors be alarmed by the news that Mr Hayward and his finance chief, Julian Metherell, have between them sold almost £1.6m of Genel shares? Don't call the broker just yet, says a spokesman. The pair's share disposal will pay for a tax charge relating to the London listing of Valleres, the investment vehicle from which Genel was born. Vallares floated in 2011, but the liability apparently "crystallised" this month. Panmure Gordon has gone bust. Not like that. The stockbroker has immortalised its founder, Harry Panmure Gordon, in bronze, to mark the Scottish financier's varied achievements, including "helping" co-found Country Life magazine. The statue (below) was unveiled yesterday at a party held at the Mayfair gallery of gun-maker Beretta - although perhaps not all Panmure staff got a peek. Owing to "the nature of its contents," access to the gallery was invitation-only. No doubt the evening went with a bang.