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

Thomas Whittaker
04 Mar 2011

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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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