“Seeing the value that MTS streaming data & executable markets has added to our clients’ workflow, once within TS Imagine, is tremendously satisfying.”
“…there needs to be more centralized liquidity and easier access to different pools in a single place. It is also worth noting that it’s not just about liquidity, but also about prices: what is the real market-wide price for a given security, and how deep is it?”
“BondsPro’s all-to-all nature ensures that traders have broader access to a diverse pool of counterparties through a single interface, and without a huge price tag.”
“The all-to-all model allows the market to become more consolidated and improves access of traders to traders. It shortens the search process and provides greater access to liquidity. It also helps spread market information around prices more broadly, which helps to get people more comfortable with taking risk in the asset class. And importantly, within the all-to-all model more nuanced information streams and styles of trading can reside, all relying on and interfacing with the broader market as appropriate.”
“After a long period of frustration, the market today is finally at a tipping point where the confluence of technology, data, and interconnectivity are winning the battle against fragmentation.”
“The electronification of the US corporate bond market is bringing faster, more efficient trading and opening up the way for new tools such as automation and data-driven trading models.Seeing the value that MTS streaming data & executable markets has added to our clients’ workflow, once within TS Imagine, is tremendously satisfying.”
“We are at the tipping point where technology and interconnectivity are finally winning the battle against fragmentation.”
“We take our role in helping to enhance market liquidity and maximizing trading opportunities for clients seriously. Extending trading hours to maintain a global market around-the-clock will further support this [effort].”
“This is an important step to support diversity of interest in the US corporate bond market, a sign of growing global electronic volumes and a reflection of the increasing appeal of the all-to-all trading model for fixed income securities.”
“We are delighted to extend access to our rapidly growing MTS BondsPro global fixed income community to a wider set of global market participants. This is a sign of growing global electronic volumes and a reflection of the increasing appeal of the all-to-all trading model for fixed income traders.”
“By enabling Swiss market participants to trade in MTS BondsPro’s liquidity pool, we continue to further diversify the network for the benefit of the market overall.”
“Vendor becomes first unaffiliated electronic platform to have a direct access trading connection to Bloomberg TSOX.”
“Fitting into the bespoke workflow that each customer develops on their own accord is critical. Through this partnership, we will continue to offer an accessible, integrated service for trading.”
“Integrating with TORA’s advanced OEMS is very exciting for the MTS BondsPro business, as it makes liquidity via our platform more widely available to the market and easily accessible to TORA’s global client base.”
“Offering our customers the ability to interact with our markets in the most natural way, as defined by each client, has never been more important.”
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“This is a natural step towards establishing better price transparency by consolidating and centralising corporate bond pre-trade information.”
“This is the perfect collaboration between MTS’ heritage in electronic fixed income and innovative new approaches to providing traders and portfolio managers with the tools they need.”
“the collaboration with Bloomberg is part of MMI’s and LSEG’s commitment to provide market participants with greater market access and to meet the market’s demand for tighter trading front-end and liquidity integrationThis is the perfect collaboration between MTS’ heritage in electronic fixed income and innovative new approaches to providing traders and portfolio managers with the tools they need.”
“[Users] benefit from increased price discovery by way of real-time ticking bond prices and more streamlined trading options through the platform’s click-to-trade function, with the ability to leave anonymous resting orders directly from their terminals.”
“In the U.S., electronic volume has been steadily growing with the greatest impact on corporate and municipal bonds. New regulations, an explosion of new datasets and demand for greater efficiency are driving growth.”
“The share of bond electronic trading venues offering buy-side firms the opportunity to act as price-makers…illustrates that…change has happened, and continues to happen at a rapid pace.”
“We’ve had 20 years of innovation,” said Wendy Wyatt, a portfolio manager at DuPont Capital, of the slow embrace of corporate bond trading in the digital age. “There were hard hurdles that needed to be overcome.”
“BondsPro’s David Parker expects dealers to move to an “electronic first” mentality around executions and for this pattern to migrate down the liquidity spectrum. He also expects investors to start using technology to set up and monitor hedges.”
“Proponents say the shift to electronic and automated trading should make the bond market more transparent, lower costs for the ultimate buyers – asset managers like pension funds – and give fund firms power held by banks to get the best prices.”
“Investors say improved algos keep bid-ask spreads narrow.”
“Latest study from Liquidnet suggests a shift in sell-side relationships is threatening defacto RFQ model.”
“Electronic trading – where transactions are carried out using software on online platforms, rather than via dealer-client “voice” trades – can carry major benefits for the $100 trillion-plus world of government and corporate debt.”
“Electronic fixed-income platforms made inroads during the pandemic and haven’t lost momentum.”
“…a confluence of factors is now beginning to have a profound impact on the $50tn fixed income market.”
“It comes with real challenges, but it really does feel like the forefront, the bleeding edge of systematic strategies. We all know the golden years of systematic equity were the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I think we’re in the golden years of credit.”
“One electronic marketplace says it’s seen the number of systematic strategies on its trading venue double every year since 2017.”
“As fragmentation and volatility persist, it is reasonable to believe that data and technology could level the playing field in terms of liquidity access through information aggregation and improved connectivity to dealers.”
“All-to-all bonds trading venues represent the eventual end point of the marketplace’s experimentation with new models.”
“The pandemic has accelerated an evolution in bond trading, and it is already making a difference for investors—if bond managers have embraced tech-enabled trading.”
“Electronic trading of corporate bonds has reached record levels, as credit-trading algorithms get smarter, grab market share, and make it easier for investors to buy and sell corporate bonds without affecting prices too much.”
“Slowly at first, and lately more quickly, the corporate-bond market is embracing trading on electronic platforms.”
