“We don’t like the word ‘war’, we prefer to call it ‘competition’,” says Jörg Franke, board member of Deutsche Börse, the holding company for the German futures exchange (Deutsche Terminbörse – DTB). He’s referring to a belligerent comment back in March by Liffe chairman Daniel Hodson about the rivalry between the London financial futures exchange and its German counterpart.
Cooperation between the two exchanges is almost unthinkable after seven years of rivalry on the Bund contract.
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