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E-mail of the eveningHere at FO Week we pride ourselves on having our finger right on the pulse a propos all the latest product developments in what is, let's be honest, a pretty confusing industry. Many has been the time when some zealous young hack, having been invited out to play with the big boys in one of our after-hours drinking sessions, has corrected me on some minor point of fact like the fact that they aren't calling it Deutsche Terminbörse any more. Incidentally, I would like to ask exactly how I was meant to keep up with that one when it was only a couple of years back that I got a very blank look from a bookmaker when I tried to stick a week's wages on a football match win by West Germany? Anyway, a swift whack in the back or the knee from my umbrella usually gets...