December 2000 E-supplement

Consortium platforms: The politics of multi-bank sites; Could TradeWeb unravel from the inside?; Forex systems: Rivals cooperate for mutual profit; Consortium sites: A guide to consortium sites; Trade finance: E-trade finance: the race is on; Asian e-broking: The new frontier; Regulators’ view: Getting to grips with e-risk; E-finance venture capital: The big boys take the initiative; E-payments: Survival of the slickest; Editorial: The empire strikes back; Fund management: Managers in e-beauty parade; Fixed income: Creating a stock exchange for bonds; Technology: S1 builds European banks’ internet platforms; Loans: Loan trading set to boom; Foreign exchange: Shell invests $11.5 million in forex platform; Trade finance: Luring investors into trade finance assets; E-Lawyer: Trinity seeks to cover collateralization bases; People: Rupert Pearce vice president, operations, Atlas Ventures Lori Mirek president and CEO, Currenex


December 2000 E-supplement

Cover Story
Consortium platforms
The politics of multi-bank sites
When banks finally began investing heavily in online trading platforms, it seemed the more consortia they could join the better. Yet multi-bank platforms are keener than ever to get a taste of independence – something their paymasters may find hard to tolerate. Antony Currie







Could TradeWeb unravel from the inside?
TradeWeb has proven itself to be the bellwether for institutional bond trading. But internal tensions are mounting as participating banks join competing foreign exchange platforms.

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