Buy-side bond traders increasingly want to automate and analyse their trading where possible, but need the data to do so. Paulo Costa of MarketAxess, tells us where there can be weaknesses in bond market data today, how data sources can potentially provide support for those areas, and introduces a new service, AxessAll prints, which is providing real-time bond pricing.
In supporting best execution, data sources need to provide different levels of transparency across volume, pricing and size of trades. Paulo explains how the separation of different disclosures across data sources is potentially allowing greater clarity without leaking information which could prove detrimental to the trading desk itself.
