{"id":5950,"date":"2007-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bond-trading-co-mts-may-give-hedge-funds-access-to-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/bond-trading-co-mts-may-give-hedge-funds-access-to-trading.html","title":{"rendered":"Bond trading co MTS may give hedge funds access to trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  London &#8211; European bond-trading platform company MTS SpA will today discuss demands from hedge funds to be given direct access to its interdealer government-bond platforms for the first time, the  Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>  If MTS, which is majority-owned by NYSE Euronext and Borsa Italiana SpA, gives the green light, it will allow the funds to start trading in the 4 trln eur government bond markets using their  computer-generated execution systems, which would expand their money-making opportunities and potentially increase the market&#8217;s volumes.<\/p>\n<p>  But any plan to open the interdealer market to outside investors will need to resolve a likely clash with the market-maker systems that most governments use to support liquidity in their debt, the  newspaper noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/feeds\/afx\/2007\/04\/18\/afx3623886.html&amp;cid=1115475239&amp;ei=ThEmRryjEpr00QHYmYHPAQ\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London &#8211; European bond-trading platform company MTS SpA will today discuss demands from hedge funds to be given direct access to its interdealer government-bond platforms for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reported. If MTS, which is majority-owned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}