The New York Commodities Exchange also tried and failed, as did Eurex, a German-Swiss affair.
Among the larger hubs, Frankfurt is an important centre for banking and derivatives trading through Eurex, a German-Swiss exchange, with significantly lower costs than London.
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The focus on German account holders comes after the German parliament last year blocked a controversial German-Swiss tax treaty, dealing a major setback for Switzerland.
Disarmingly measured and charming in conversation, Mr Blocher shows the fire in his belly when out on the campaign, singing patriotic folk songs and bellowing at rallies, especially in the German-Swiss valleys.
They also voted out their reform-minded chairman in favour of a traditionalist, and on January 27th, voted down plans for a shared electronic-trading system with the Swiss-German Eurex exchange.
But Buffett remained tight-lipped concerning rumored targets such as the private German candy-maker Haribo and Swiss watch-maker Swatch Group .
But Buffett remained tight-lipped concerning rumored targets such as the private German candy-maker Haribo and Swiss watch-maker Swatch Group (other-otc: SWGAF - news - people ).
Designed by a Swiss-German painter named Walter Jonas, they looked rational enough in plans and models.
The Swiss-German duo Boy played SXSW as part of month-long U.S. tour behind "Mutual Friends" (Nettwerk), its album released here in late February.
He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.
The great Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz gives a staggering performance as Adolf Hitler in this full-scale realist German production detailing the last ten days of the Third Reich.
But Moody's main rationale for all these downgrades - of US, Swiss, French, German and British banks - is that investment banking is a riskier business than many might have thought a few years ago.
He oversaw tie-ups with the German and (later) Swiss derivatives exchanges to create the world's largest futures market.
Eurex, an on-line system owned by Swiss and German exchanges, has whittled the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange's share of the German bund futures contract from 70% to 10%.
The Swiss-based firm has halted deliveries of products containing meat from a German supplier.
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The Swiss bank also likes Peugeot which could be snapped up by Fiat and German truck-maker MAN which could be devoured by Scania or Volkswagen.
There is, of course, something of an irony in the widespread belief that it is Jain's nationality that's the problem - which is that Ackermann may walk and talk like a German, but he is in fact Swiss.
Spain's Alex Corretja takes on compatriot David Sanchez while second-seeded German Rainer Schuettler meets Belgian Christophe Rochus and Czech Radek Stepanek, the eighth seed, faces Swiss Michel Kratochvil.
Monsanto's competitors, the Swiss Syngenta (nyse: SYT - news - people ) and the German Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ), also contract with farmers in India to produce seed.
Berlin's city tourist authority has opened its own German-themed shops, partly aimed at the Chinese, and selling, among other things, cuckoo clocks and Swiss army knives considered German by some in China.
Investors digested an array of factors through the week including the Swiss-Euro peg, speeches by Bernanke and Obama, and continued ripple effects from the German-Greece-Eurozone debt crisis. (Read Greek Euro Exit: 60% Currency Devaluation, Default, Banking Sector Collapse).
While both countries have signalled their willingness to sign the deal, they still need parliamentary approval which is now at risk after Swiss prosecutors on Saturday issued arrest warrants for three German tax inspectors from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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