InsideEdge went for an agreeable lunch with Cantor Index to talk about their new service Spreadfair, the world's first spread betting exchange. But in Cantor Index's PR and marketing wallah David Buik we got more than we bargained for. James Hipwell reports



There are few more entertaining figures in the spread betting world than David Buik. A money broker for 31 years with a number of leading City institutions, he became a bookie in the 1990s, alongside a number of other recently unemployed bankers and brokers who were snapped up by spread betting firms.



It was destiny, really - gambling has run deep in his veins for over 40 years.



'Yes, I learned about gambling the hard way back in the early 1960s,' he says.