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Re:Direct Match (YC W15) Aims to Make Bond Trading as Easy a... by Paladiamors on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:33AM (#9055470)
In many of the fixed income markets a lot of activities are still done over the phone or inter dealer voice systems. Tullet Prebon is one such company that facilitates these activities via a voice bus.

The questions come to mind are:

1. if you are providing a service to provide price feeds: - for the on the runs, then places like retuters should be able to provide that data - for off the runs, there is much less liquidity/information as mentioned here, for that a price is often paid to dealers (so no change there)

2. If you are creating an exchange then this can possibly reduce the spreads for less liquid instruments - The interesting problem you'll need to deal with is how everyone deals with settlement.

Re:Direct Match (YC W15) Aims to Make Bond Trading as Easy a... by bwhite on Monday February 16, 2015 @03:04AM (#9055826)
Appending to #2 above, if you're creating an exchange (or crossing network, dark venue, etc), how do you deal with settlement and counterparty issues?