Single-dealer e-trading platforms bounce back after Dodd-Frank urges automation

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Chris Dodd (l) and Barney Frank, sponsors of the eponymously named financial reform bill

Prior to the global financial crisis, the future for electronic trading of credit instruments looked positive. Clients were using e-trading platforms to trade increasingly complex deals. But this came to an abrupt halt as bid-offer spreads widened due to increased risk and poor liquidity. Clients pushing for an accommodating price appeared to turn away from their monitors and hit the phones; volumes quickly dived.

“The credit side of e-trading virtually stopped functioning from 2007 to 2008 as

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