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LIFFE opened in the Royal Exchange building in the City of London in September 1982, to provide a market in the European time zone offering financial futures and, since 1985, financial options, to dealers and investors. From the outset Building Societies have worked with the Exchange to evaluate the ways in which Societies might use financial futures and to persuade the Government to grant the necessary enabling powers.
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Phillips, B.H. (1988). Financial Futures and Building Societies. In: Miller, R. (eds) London International Financial Futures Exchange Yearbook. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10000-2_3
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