The central figure in pushing for the development of an American acceptance market was Paul Warburg, the immigrant younger brother of a great Hamburg banker who was the personal adviser to Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Warburg brothers, Max and Paul, were a transatlantic tandem, energetically pushing for German-American institutions that would offer an alternative to British industrial and financial monopoly.
开创美国承兑市场的核心人物是保罗·沃伯格，保罗是曾任德皇威廉二世私人顾问的那位伟大的汉堡银行家移民美国的亲弟弟。沃伯格兄弟（马克斯和保罗）在大西洋两岸共同努力推动德美金融体系的发展，打破英国在工业和金融领域的垄断地位。他们深信英国的实力会随着德美两国实力的逐年增强而不断削弱。