Trading e-volution

The advent of electronic trading is dragging the fixed-income community into the twenty-first century. Alan Gersten discovers which areas of the market are more readily embracing the new internet-based technology and why

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Traders in the bond market have been slow to adopt electronic trading, unlike in the equity market, where electronic trading spread like wildfire. But recently, trading fixed-income securities via a computer terminal has become a part of everyday life in the credit markets.

Electronic trading now dominates the exchange of government and agency securities, and has a significant role in investment-grade corporate bond transactions. While few believe that the phone is headed the way of platform

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