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Arrowing scenesAs predicted last week, the highlight of many people's Bürgenstock this year was the Icap-sponsored Red Arrows display. I say that, but to be fair the combination of deadlines and bar opening times means that I am being forced to pen these words less than a day in to the conference, so for all I know by the time Saturday rolls round the Arrows could have been put well and truly in the shade (probably not by anything on Saturday in all honesty, I'll probably give that a miss in favour of sleeping off my hangover and catching a plane). Anyway, the Red Arrows were a pretty special sight, looping and diving amongst the Swiss Alps - perhaps only surpassed, in the eyes of certain female (and certain male) delegates by the appearance of a number of fighter pilots at the CBOE/CBoT/CME cocktail party on...